David Vyle Levy

Metkayina village very early speedpainting with process. Was corrected in the book (prob Dylan, thanks! 🙏 ) to fix composition and weird branching which ended up being way better. For #avatarwayofwater done around 12 years ago already!

A small selection of StarWars work. May the 4th be with you!

🇫🇷 Bonne fête des travailleur-euses a tous et toutes ! C’est le mois de @chromaa_event sur Geek-Art ! Avec des newsletters dédiées à ce festival nantais des artistes de l’édition, du jeu vidéo et du cinéma qui aura lieu les 23 et 24 mai prochains et dont Geek-Art est partenaire. On commence avec l’ITW de @vyleart , très grand concept artist cinéma / jeu vidéo venu spécialement des USA pour donner une conférence à Nantes. Un grand merci à lui pour ses réponses, n’hésitez pas à vous abonner à la newsletter (lien en bio) pour en profiter. 🇬🇧 It’s Chromaa month on Geek-Art! As an official partner I’ll be publishing newsletters dedicated to this Nantes-based event celebrating artists from publishing, video games, and film, taking place on May 23 and 24. We’re kicking things off with an interview with David Levy, a renowned concept artist in film and video games, who’s coming all the way from the USA to give a talk in Nantes. Many thanks to him for his answers and be sure to subscribe to the newsletter (link in bio) to enjoy it!

“Perilous” New quick speed painting as timelapse — an astronaut stepping into the unknown, one bad move away from disappearing into the void. #speedpainting #digitalpainting #conceptart

This one is a futuristic mine-sweeper vehicle loosely inspired by hammerhead sharks — purely for the joy of speed painting and letting shapes evolve on their own. No brief, no rules… just riffing on silhouette, weird geometry, and that satisfying balance between function and creature-logic. #speedpainting #digitalpainting #conceptart #vehicleDesign #industrialdesign

New speedpainting timelapse just dropped! 🏍️✨ blazing through a vertical composition — built layer by layer from the background to the foreground. Old school speedpaint to relax at the end of the day. Lightweight hollow frame, maximum torque I loved shaping her silhouette against the rising colors and letting the details emerge slowly: sparks, reflections, motion blur, and that sense of wind and speed you can almost feel. The whole process feels like telling a story in reverse—watching an empty space transform into momentum and character. Such a blast to paint. Hope you enjoy the ride. ⚡️ #speedpainting #digitalpainting #photoshopart #conceptart #digitalartist

Brand new evening relaxation old school speedpainting timelapse is up! ⚡️ This one is inspired by Dillinger’s Grid …. pure graphic chaos and order colliding. I’ve been diving deep into those intense reds, burnt oranges, and electric yellows… layering shapes, stripping them back, then building the noise all over again. There’s something endlessly fun about pushing Photoshop until it feels like the image is vibrating …visual noise, or total simplicity, depending on the frame. Hope you enjoy watching this one as much as I loved making it. 🔥🟧🟡 I don’t even remember the last time I made one of these. Not sure why instaprout cutoff the video before the end, will post it on my youtube channel I guess. #speedpainting #photoshopart #digitalartwork #conceptart #motiongraphics #visualdesign #colorstudy #scifiart #productiondesign #abstractdigital #digitalillustration #artistprocess #timelapseart #creativeflow #davidlevy #vyle

David Levy est directeur artistique et concept designer. Il a collaboré sur des univers majeurs comme Avatar, Star Wars et Dune: Prophecy, ainsi qu’avec des studios tels que Disney, HBO et SpaceX. Passionné par les mondes imaginaires, l’exploration et le futur du design, il crée des images et des histoires visuelles qui inspirent autant le cinéma que le jeu vidéo.

Sharing another set of pieces from the various iterations of TRON: Ascension—long before the project evolved into what is now TRON: Ares. Over the years, the world kept shifting and expanding, and these images capture some of that exploration: newer Encom Grid designs, early research-vessel concepts (later beautifully carried forward by Paul Ozzimo), more environments developed for the Dillinger Grid, and even a TRON mech design that was part of the visual experimentation back then. Those early days on the Disney lot were a rare creative window — working under the brilliant Production Designer Darren Gilford, with Joseph Kosinski directing, and alongside incredible artists like Thom Tenery, Annis Naeem, and Paul Ozzimo, supported by Kristen Maloney. It’s amazing to see how threads from those early explorations still echo through Ares. Huge congratulations to the team that brought the world of TRON forward with such ambition and beauty. And as always… TRON: Legacy remains one of my all-time favorite projects — still inspiring me years later. ⚡️ #Tron #TronAres #TronLegacy #ConceptArt #FilmDesign #Disney #JosephKosinski #EncomGrid #DillingerGrid

I had the chance to work on several iterations of TRON: Ascension years before it eventually evolved into TRON: Ares. Back then, we were a small team on the Disney lot, led by the amazing Production Designer Darren Gilford, with Joseph Kosinski directing and incredible artists like Thom Tenery, Annis Naeem, and Paul Ozzimo — all supported by Kristen Maloney. Here are a few of my early first speedpaintings for Dillinger’s Grid. It’s exciting to see that many of the design ideas, visual directions, and shot concepts from those early explorations still echo in Ares. The new film looks absolutely stunning: congratulations to the team that brought it back to life and pushed the TRON universe even further. Working on TRON: Legacy remains, to this day, one of my favorite projects: a rare moment where design, storytelling, and technology merged seamlessly and where I made friends for a lifetime.⚡️ #Tron #TronAres #TronLegacy #ConceptArt #FilmDesign #Disney #JosephKosinski

✨ Back in the game. Literally. ✨ After 15 years in the film industry, Dune: Awakening marks my return to video games (while staying in the duniverse)—and what a wild, beautiful ride it’s been. This was my first project where I focused 100% on art team leadership & management as associate art director—no hands on the brush, just guiding some of the most talented artists I’ve ever worked with. I was handed huge responsibilities: art direction for social hubs and early game environments, props, weapons, gadgets, upcoming DLCs… and leading one of the most complex lighting efforts I’ve ever seen in a game using unreal and proprietary tools. 🔥🌒 💡 Major love to our lighting dream team: Mica Olsson, Francois Gand, Ana Tornero, Cora Uijlenhoet, Mikael Akopian – you guys made a massive open world glow with style and clarity. 🎯 And to our Funcom North Carolina 3D art squad— Pat Nuckels (my foxhole buddy), Brian Barnett, Logan Thomas, Justin Hrala, and Michael Innis—you’re the special forces of game art. Drop you into chaos, and somehow you come out the other side with a win. Every. Single. Time. Shoutout to @il.maximoc and his amazing material team also! 👊 Shoutout to Gavin Whelan for trusting me with all this, and to Rémi Ducharme Messaoui—you were a rock as a producer, and we miss you big time. 🙌 Huge thanks to the Live Team, QA, and the marketing team obviously! and our new brothers and sisters from the Conan Exiles team who joined the Dune mission—your energy has been incredible. 🎉 And seeing players love it—9/10 positive on Steam!—makes it all so worth it. Also… I can’t get enough of those streamer clips where people get surprise-chomped by the sandworm 🪱💥 Keep them coming! 😂 More to come. We’re just getting started. #DuneAwakening #GameDevLife #ArtDirector #LightingTeam #GameArt #Funcom #DuneGame #CreativeLeadership #ReturnToGames #SpecialForcesTeam #Gratitude #SandwormSnacks #TeamworkMakesTheDreamWork #OpenWorldSurvival #BehindTheScenes #unrealengine

New concept — this time merging IMOCA racing DNA with the elegance of a luxury sailing yacht. ⠀ I’ve always been drawn to the raw efficiency and stripped-down aggression of IMOCA designs, but I wanted to explore what would happen if that same performance language was reinterpreted through the lens of high-end cruising. ⠀ This design plays with low-profile geometry, asymmetry, and aerodynamic surfaces, while integrating the kind of refined detailing and comfort you’d expect in a next-gen luxury vessel. Think speed and silence — engineered elegance meeting offshore grit. ⠀ Swipe through for the visuals ⠀ #ConceptArt #YachtDesign #IMOCA #SailingYacht #LuxuryYacht #NavalArchitecture #FuturisticDesign #BoatDesign #DigitalSketch #DesignProcess #OceanEngineering #FastSailing #YachtConcept #HardSurfaceDesign #SketchToFinal