Kickstart top concept designer Neville Page’s new art book
Originally posted on 13 April 2025, and updated for the start of the Kickstarter campaign.
Avatar and Star Trek concept designer Neville Page has launched a crowdfunding campaign for Beauty in the Beast, a new art book representing three decades of work in the movie industry.
The book sees the Emmy Award-winning artist “pulling back the curtain on what it really takes to succeed in design”: both the art skills required, and the realities of working on set.
A visual record of three decades of work on some of the world’s best-known movies
One of the world’s leading creature and concept designers, Neville Page has been working on movie and broadcast projects since the turn of the millennium.
Movies he has worked on include Minority Report, Planet of the Apes, James Cameron’s Avatar, J.J. Abrams’ Cloverfield – for which he designed the creature – The Watchmen, and The Hulk.
More recently, he has worked on major broadcast projects including Star Trek series Voyager and Picard: experience distilled into his new tutorial series on Virtual Makeup Design for The Gnomon Workshop.
A ‘practical field guide’ to succeeding in concept design
Page’s new book, Beauty in the Beast, is both a visual record of three decades of work in the movie business, and an insight into what it really took to create that work.
Although it sets out the artistic skills required to succeed in concept design – the mastery of anatomy, perspective and form – the book is about more than just how to draw, also exploring the realities of working on set, and of collaborating with some of the world’s leading directors.
Page describes it as a “deeply personal and practical field guide for anyone [who wants to] build a sustainable career in one of the most demanding industries on the planet”.
For more details on the book, visit the project website or the Kickstarter page via the links below.
Back Neville Page’s Beauty in the Beast book on Kickstarter
Register for updates on Beauty in the Beast on Neville Page’s book website
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