Sean Andrew Murray is a freelance illustrator, concept artist, author and teacher who has worked in the entertainment industry for nearly fifteen years. The bulk of his career so far has been spent as a video game concept artist, working on such titles as “Dungeons & Dragons Online,” “The Lord of the Rings Online,” “Ultima Online”, “Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning” and two unannounced projects at Harmonix Music Systems.

His freelance client list includes: Legendary Pictures (Guillermo Del Toro), Disney-HyperionPublishing, Meridian Entertainment/Travis Beacham (writer of Pacific Rim), Sideshow Collectibles, Wizards of the Coast, Lego, EA Games, CoolMiniOrNot, Privateer Press... (to name a few).

Sean was a finalist for a medal in the 20th annual Spectrum: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art competition. He was also nominated for a 2015 Chesley Award for Best Unpublished Black-and-White Work. Graduate of Syracuse University, he has taught in the illustration department at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and has spoken at Syracuse University’s Visual Communication Symposium. He also occasionally runs his own 6-week long intensive online seminars on the subject of “world-building for concept artists and illustrators.”

Recently he began working for visionary film director, producer and author Guillermo Del Toro on a television series called Killing on Carnival Row as well as an illustrated young-adult novel titled Trollhunters, which hit bookstore shelves in 2015.