A concept artist’s journey
Nick Keller hails from Tauranga, New Zealand, and is now living in Wellington with his wife and two sons. He is a VES and Tui award-winning concept artist and illustrator currently working at Weta Digital.
How would you describe yourself as an artist and what inspires you? What was your journey to becoming a concept artist?
After completing a bachelor of engineering degree, I was intent on abandoning my career path in favour of something artistic; drawing and painting had been a childhood love. I knew of Weta Workshop by their astounding practical effects work on trilogy. I naively film, . At that point I didn’t have any experience with digital art so it was either sink or learn fast and swim. Evidently I swam and after spending ten years at Weta Workshop I was given the opportunity to spend a year with the on-set art department for
