Anastasios Gionis (artist alias: Mavros-Thanatos) is a greek artist living and working in LA, America. Mavros grew up as a traditional animator before starting work in the film industry as a 3D modeller and animator. He specialises in creature design and has worked on films such as "Snow White" and "Cabin in the Woods."
In his spare time Mavros does regular traditional mediums of artwork, he loves designing his own creatures and appears to be heavily influenced by the Silent Hill game series.
I love all of the work that this guy does as he works in quite a few different mediums of work including pencil, his most commonly used medium. Paint, Zbrush and Maya.
His lighting on his characters is also wonderful and really helps to set a scene with a character to properly convey the personality of the creature. Above is one of my favourite pieces he has done, named "Scrape," this creature is top heavy and appears to be fused to a metal canvas, giving it a brutally painful lurch while it walks and is no doubt named after the noise its canvas would make as its metal frame scratches across the tile floor seen in the environment.
For those who are wanting to perfect their strange anatomy forms, work on shading and work on their creature design concepts I would really suggest looking up Mavros-Thanatos' work.
He is an exceptionally friendly person and is more than happy to help other aspiring artists out as well as making general work related small talk when he's not too busy.
Find his DeviantART profile HERE -> http://mavros-thanatos.deviantart.com
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