Book Description

"When I grow up I want to be an astronaut!" declared a six-year-old Stephan in 1968, a year before man walked on the moon. Not surprisingly, his first doodles featured blazing rockets and spaceships. Growing up in France, and not permitted to watch much TV, Stephan spent a lot of time at the corner cinema. There he was introduced to the likes of the Werewolf, the Mummy, Dracula, Frankenstein and King Kong. He traveled on the Voyage to the Center of the Earth and experienced The Day the Earth Stood Still. The fantastic creatures and worlds in all of these classics were overwhelmingly cool. As Stephan's doodles of astronauts became doodles of monsters and aliens, he found himself enjoying drawing more and more--and the dream of becoming an astronaut gradually evolved into becoming a visual artist.

Quantum Dreams: The Art of Stephan Martinière is a collection of his sci-fi book paintings, video game designs and personal art. Stephan takes others' descriptions of faraway, imaginary realms--and makes them real.

About the Author

Smoothly morphing his considerable skill and experience, Stephan MARTINIERE shapeshifts from whimsical to hard-core science fiction, cartoon to realistic, illustrator to director.

In the past 15 years, Stephan has become known for his talent, versatility, imagination and professionalism, gaining constant recognition and praise through his work in a growing range of clients and projects.

Stephan has worked for three years as visual art director at Cyan, the creators of Myst, on their games Uru: Ages Beyond Myst, Uru: The Path of the Shell and the upcoming Myst 5.

As an illustrator and animation director, Stephan has won numerous Awards including:

- A Master Award and five Excellence Awards from Ballistic Media's Expose 3,

- Two Master Awards and one Excellence Award from Ballistic Media's Expos? 2,

- The British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Cover of 2004,

- A Silver Award for Editorial in 1997 and a Gold Award in 2004 from Spectrum,

A Thea Award for his work on the Paramount theme park Super Saturator in 2001.

As a director for the animated special "Madeline," Stephan won the Humanitas Award, the A.C.T Award and the Parent's Choice Award and was nominated for an Emmy Award.

Stephan is currently the visual design director for Midway Games.