Scott Wills is a background painter whose work includes some really iconic pieces for Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Samurai Jack and Ren and Stimpy, amongst many more. As you’ll see, so much of the style of those series is actually a result of the uniquely distinctive background art.
All the pieces below are painted traditionally using acrylic and gouache, often at a very small scale.
You can see more of Scott’s amazing work on his blog at: Candy Cane Land
Staggeringly good… I could spend days digging through the treasure on his blog, and likely will!
Is it Mills or Wills?
Wowowow wait a sec…you're telling us that stuff is painted on such a small scale and then used in animations!?!
I was thinking the same :/ I think it's Wills as stated on his blog, I hope they correct this small mistake to prevent further confusion :).
Thanks for catching that… it was a long night.
I'm a big fan of Scott's work.
I think you should talk Scott into being a contributor on Muddy Colors!….now that is the best idea I've heard all year.
Awesome! Samurai Jack was one of my favourite shows growing up. I still have the dvd sets sitting next to me right now. I guess that says how young I am 😛
Thanks for posting these!
WOW! I'm inspired!!! And I have a new desktop background 😛 Thanks for sharing!
I used the trees for my desktop background. I am amazed at the sense of depth.
agreed
My eyes hurt just thinking about painting on such a small scale! I browsed through CandyCaneLane and I'm floored! Absolutely beautiful work! Thanks for introducing him to us, Dan!
i loveeeeeeeeeeeeeee this dude!!! the god of background painting for sure, the samurai jack pieces are awesome!