Miles Teves
Miles Teves (born 1963, Salinas, California) is a Hollywood artist and conceptual designer who works on television productions, films, and computer games.
Education
[edit | edit source]Miles Teves studied sculpture at the Art Center College of Design. In 1982, when Teves was 18, he showed some of his artwork to special make-up effects creator Rob Bottin.[1]
Career
[edit | edit source]In 1983, Bottin brought Teves onto the special effects staff for the movie Legend to create the conceptual artwork for the character Darkness.
During this time, Teves co-created the role-playing game SkyRealms of Jorune (1984) with his high school friend Andrew Leker,[2] and also supplied the interior and cover artwork.[3]
With the release of Legend in 1985, Teves turned to the silver screen, working on Explorers, RoboCop, The Witches of Eastwick, Total Recall, Batman & Robin, Hollow Man, Spider-Man, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Reign of Fire, Van Helsing, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, The Chronicles of Riddick,[4] Little Fockers (2010) and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides(2011).[5]
His work has included sculpting pieces as realistic as Tom Cruise's head for Interview with the Vampire and as fantastical as Kong in King Kong.[6]
Reception
[edit | edit source]In his 2023 book Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground, RPG historian Stu Horvath reviewed the fantasy science fiction role-playing game Skyrealms of Jorune and noted "Much of the bizarreness is thanks to the fabulous work of illustrator and co-designer Miles Teves, whose realistic style gives Jorune an uncanny verisimilitude. It is on display in his painting for the front of the box, a tableau in Renaissance style, depicting the 'Death Scene of Sho Cora-Tra, Sholari of Tashka.' I don't know what that means, but the painting still transmits great emotional weight, despite the aliens."[7]
References
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- ^ Miles Teves at IMDb
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External links
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