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Unlike a lot of artists, Janice Chu didn’t necessarily grow up knowing she wanted to draw things for a living. In fact, she originally went to university to study computer science, but that only lasted a semester. “There was just too much math,” she says. Eventually she switched to studying animation, and three years in she decided that what she really wanted to do was create concept art for video games. “The school didn’t teach concept art,” says Chu, “so I had to learn on my own.”
Since then the Vancouver-based artist has gone on to work on a pretty wide range of projects. She spent time at game developer Digital Extremes, doing everything from concept art for Halo 4 maps to designing user interface icons and sci-fi weapons for…
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