Creative communities have been a necessary feature of the creative life for centuries, and for Bobby Chiu the adventure of bringing together a community of artists and illustrators from around the world is a mission that he’s so clearly committed to. Bobby established Imaginism Studios in 2005, and within that he has overseen development of the Schoolism online training and teaching courses for burgeoning new artists.
In a conversation with ImagineFX, Bobby takes us through how and why LightBox Expo was created and what it means to him, and also to the global illustration and image-making community across the disciplines of concept design, illustration, and work for video games.
Our conversation begins with Bobby recalling the earliest moment in the genesis of LightBox. “I think the biggest reason is because I got discovered at San Diego Comic-Con, way back in the day,” Bobby explains. “Tim Burton was looking for artists for [his film] Alice in Wonderland, so that’s how I was discovered. But back then, you’d go on TV and wouldn’t see anything about San Diego Comic-Con. It wasn’t on peoples’ radars at that level.”
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“Comic-Con’s still amazing. I still love
