Jama Jurabaev
Lucasfilm, Art Director
Jama Jurabaev is a concept artist, illustrator and art director working in film, series and games. An aerospace engineer by training, he largely taught himself concept art, partly through online courses. He has worked in film since the early 2010s: he started as a matte painter in MPC's commercials department and worked there on X-Men: Days of Future Past and Guardians of the Galaxy. At Framestore he was a lead concept artist on Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Beauty and the Beast and Ready Player One, and created designs for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. He has worked as an art director in the art department of Industrial Light & Magic and works with Lucasfilm on The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ahsoka, Skeleton Crew, the film The Mandalorian and Grogu, and BBC's Prehistoric Planet. He combines 2D, 3D and VR, created a Gnomon Workshop course on keyframe illustration for film, and founded the 3D asset studio BigMediumSmall.