Tony DiTerlizzi

Tony M. DiTerlizzi (Born September 6, 1971) is an American Fantasy artist, children's book illustrator & creator, RPG Worldbuilder & Creator and motion picture producer.

He was known for his Work on the roleplaying games Dungeons and Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Disney's Lorcana, Changling: The Dreaming, Blood Wars Card Game, Rage, Traveller, Fantasy Hero & Fate, Dragon: Age, The Witcher, Baldur's Gate, Monster Hunter, The Elder Scrolls, Final Fantasy, Ubisoft, Blizzard Entertainment, The Walt Disney Company, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Disney Television Animation, Disney Toon Studios, Dreamworks Animation, Netflix, Universal, Marvel, Nintendo, EA Games, Activision, Microsoft Game Studios, Lucasfilm, Industrial Light & Magic, Image Comics, Shrek, Disney's Frozen, How to train your dragon, Disney's The Lion King, Disney's The Little Mermaid, Disney's Winnie The Pooh, Disney's Beauty and The Beast, Disney's Gargoyles, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Scooby-Doo, Dragon's Dogma, Everquest, Rayman, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro the Dragon, Guild Wars, Legends of Dawn, Might and Magic, Pathfinder, Godzilla, Legendary Pictures, Disney/Hyperion, Dark Horse Comics, IDW, Titan Comics, Pelican Books, SYFY, Sideshow Collectibles, Disney Books, Harry Potter, Neil Gaiman's The Sandman Franchise, The Lord of the Rings, Godzilla, Jurassic Park, Pokemon, Random House, Little Brown Books and for his other Children's Books and illustrations. As well as Publishing and illustrating his own children's books such as The Spiderwick Chronicles, Kenny and The Dragon, Kenny and the book of beasts, Wondla, among many others which feature his trademark traditional pencil, traditional pen, airbrush paint, Watercolor paint, intricate pen and brush work.

He Also Really loved Classic Animated Films By Walt Disney & Don Bluth, Jim Henson's Work & Creatures, Hayao Miyazaki's My Neighbor Totoro, The Live-Action Films of Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Richard Donner, Francis Ford Coppla, Chris Columbas & Victor Flemming and The Classic Orchestral Music of Alan Menken, Elmer Bernstein, Jerry Goldsmith, Henry Mancini, James Horner and Buddy Baker as a kid.

Education

he attended South Fork High School in 1985. He went to college at the Florida School of the Arts and The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale where he earned a graphic design degree in 1992.

Influences

DiTerlizzi Cites Walt Disney, Don Bluth, Arthur Rackham, Heinrich Kley, Beatrix Potter, Ernest H. Shepard, Dr. Seuss, Norman Rockwell, James Gurney, Hermann Vogel, Scott Gustafson, Todd Lockwood, Frank Frazetta, Jim Henson, Maurice Sendak, William Joyce, Hieronymus Bosch, Leonardo Da Vinci, Maxfield Parrish, John William Waterhouse, Charles Dana Gibson, Alphonse Mucha, Charles R. Knight, Frank Godwin, T.S. Sullivant, Henry Rountree, John Tenniel, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Richard Donner, Francis Ford Coppla, Chris Columbas, Victor Flemming, William Wyler, Hayao Miyazaki, Osamu Tezuka, Yoshitaka Amano, Stan Winston, Bill Watterson, Mark ''Crash'' McCreary, Iwao Takamoto, J.R.R. Tolkien, Garth Edwards, Howard Pyle, N.C. Wyeth, Henry J. Ford, John Bauer, Brian Froud, Carl Barks, Albert Uderzo, Boris Vallejo, Julie Bell, Robert Alexander Hillingford, Edmund Duloc, Sir Lawrence-Alma Tadema, Winsor McCay, Jack Davis, Thom Enriquez, Burny Mattinson, Claude Coats, Tony Baxter, Dean Yeagle, Michael Kaluta, Gustave Doré, Kay Nielsen, Joseph Noel Paton, Hans Holbien, George Cruikshank, William Holman Hunt, Thomas Rowlandson, William Hogarth, Burne Hogarth, Lee Elias, Rembrandt, Frederic Remmington, Eugene Delacroix, Edward Gorey, William Stout, Bernie Wrightson, Shel Silverstien, Richard Scarry, Mercer Meyer, Neal Adams, Jeff Jones, Walter Simonson, Wally Wood, Don Newton, Graham Ingels, John Byrne, Franklin Booth, André Chéret, William Vance, Jean-Paul Dethorey, Peter Bruegel the elder, John Byrne, Franklin Booth, André Chéret, Floyd Gottfredson, Charles Addams, Alex Raymond, Hal Foster, Milton Caniff, Al Capp, Charles R. Knight, Arthur LeMay, Raoul Barré, René-Charles Béliveau, Rodolphe Töpffer, Moebius, Alan Lee, William Heath Robinson, Roy Krenkel, Hans Kresse, David A. Trampier, John Howe, Marten Toonder, The Brothers Hildebrandt, Charles Vess, Mark Twain, Brian Jacques, Hans Christian Anderson, Charles Perraut, The Brothers Grimm, Drew Struzen, Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo, Thomas Hardy, Guy de Maupassant, Herman Melville, J.J. Grandville, Louis-Alexandre Gosset de Guines, Georges Colomb, Frans Hogenberg, Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, Aubrey Beardsley, Henri Genevrier, W.J. Rogers, James Montgomery Flagg, Homer Calvin Davenport, Frederick Opper, Thomas Nast, Phil Tippett, Frank Schoonover, Louis Darling, Alan Daniel, Richard Amsel, Joanne Scribner, Bernard Bailey, Eric Carle, Andrej & Olga Dugina, Bob Eggleston, Ralph McQuarrie, Joe Johnston, Ray Harryhausen, John Romita Sr., George Tuska, John Severin, Mark Schultz, Gil Kane, Alex Toth, John Buscema, Russ Heath, Mark Schultz, Albert Dorne, Dean Cornwell, Robert Fawcett, Edward Julius Detmold, Bruno Liljefors, Ilya Repin, Adolf Von Menzel, Robert Bateman, Walter Crane, John Singer Sargent, Alan Menken, Elmer Bernstein, Jerry Goldsmith, Henry Mancini, James Horner, Buddy Baker, Alfred Newman, John Williams, Howard Shore, Leonard Bernstein, Max Stiener, Dave Grusin, Lalo Schifrin, Michael Giacchino, Bruce Broughton, Vince Guiraldi, Oliver Wallace, Paul Smith, Irwin Kostal, Frank Churchill, Randy Newman, Howard Ashman, Charles M. Schulz and Walt Kelly as influences