Stephan Martiniere is an internationally acclaimed Science Fiction and Fantasy artist. In the past 25 years he has become known for his talent, versatility and imagination in every entertainment fields including feature films, animation, video games, theme parks, editorial, commercial and book covers.
His clients include ILM, Disney, Universal, Paramount, Warner Brothers, 20th Century Fox and Dreamworks. Stephan Martiniere has worked on movies such as Star Wars: Episodes 2-3, Tron Legacy, Star Trek, Knowing, I, Robot, The Fifth Element, Virus, Red Planet, The Astronaut’s Wife, Sphere, Titan A.E, The Time Machine, and the upcoming Total Recall, Akira, and 300 the Battle of Atemesium.
Stephan was also the visual design director responsible for the games URU: Ages beyond Myst, URU: The Path of the Shell, and Myst 5. He worked several years as Visual Design Director for the game Stranglehold for Midway Games in Chicago and later as Creative Visual Director of the concept department for several other Midway games including Area 51, Blitz, Ballers, MK vs DC, Wheelman, and several un-announced titles. Stephan was the Art Director at ID Software for the visually acclaimed game Rage released last October.
Other the last ten years Stephan has produced over a hundred book and comic book covers for such clients as The National Geographic, Tor Books, Pyr, Penguin and Random House.
Stephan Martiniere is currently consulting and doing concept work on various game, film and theme park projects. Stephan is also an advisory board member of the CG society.