Vinod Rams
illustration - concept art - art direction
About
Welcome to my website, please click on things, it’s fun!
I've been creating art professionally for over 20 years. I chose this profession because I love telling stories and creating characters. I love creating the worlds these characters live in and I find it very fulfilling that others also enjoy the things I create. Ultimately, I want to tell meaningful stories that make a difference and influence people's lives. . . but for now I don't mind drawing aliens, monsters, and guys with cool looking swords.
I work as a concept artist and illustrator. I grew up on the mean (not really) streets of Canton, Michigan. After graduating from the College of Creative Studies in Detroit, I took a job as a product designer, during that time I did traditionally painted freelance illustration for several years for books, and tabletop RPG’s like 3rd Edition Dungeons and Dragons and others. In 2005 I entered into the video game industry via Raven Software (Wolfenstein, Singularity). From there I moved to the Pacific Northwest to work at Monolith Productions (War in the North, Shadow of Mordor), Motiga (Gigantic), Z2/King (Tapcraft), and most recently at Battle Barge working on an original IP.
I'm always adding more work, but most of my recent art is up. If there's anything you'd like to see, older work etc. please don't hesitate to e-mail me.
I hope you enjoy my little art-corner of the internet,
Vinod
Clients:
Wizards of the Coast
Paizo Publishing
Inhabit Media
Blizzard Entertainment
Future Publishing: Imagine FX Magazine
Hasbro
The Franklin Mint
The Noble Collection
You can find my work in these books:
Book of Vile Darkness (3rd Edition D&D)
Draconomicon (3rd Edition D&D)
Draconomicon: Chromatic Dragons (3rd Edition D&D)
Dragonlance the New Adventures (cover and interior art for the entire 23 book series)
Dragonlance Campaign setting (3rd Edition D&D)
The Dragon Codex Young Adult Series (cover art for the entire 7 book series)
Dungeon Masters Guide 2 (3rd Edition D&D)
Epic Level Handbook (3rd Edition D&D)
Ghostwalk (3rd Edition D&D)
Monster Manual 2 (3rd Edition D&D)
Monster Manual 3 (3rd Edition D&D)
Planar Handbook (3rd Edition D&D)
Players Handbook 2 (3rd Edition D&D)
Players Handbook v.3.5 (3rd Edition D&D)
Races of the Wild (3rd Edition D&D)
Races of Faerun (3rd Edition D&D)
Savage Species (3rd Edition D&D)
Underdark (3rd Edition D&D)
Waterdeep (3rd Edition D&D)
Wheel of Time RPG (3rd Edition D&D)
Star Wars RPG - Coruscant and the Core Worlds
Star Wars RPG - Galactic Campaign Guide
Star Wars RPG - Geonosis and the Outer Rim Worlds
Star Wars RPG - Ultimate Alien Anthology
Star Wars RPG - Ultimate Adversaries
Star Wars RPG - Jedi Academy Training Manual
Star Wars Gamer Magazine
Imagine FX Tutorial (issue #53)
Mwangi Expanse (Paizo Publishing}
Misfits Monsters Redeemed (Paizo Publishing)
World of Warcraft TCG
Video Games I've contributed to:
Wolfenstein (Raven Software/Activision)
Singularity (Raven Software/Activision)
War in the North (Snowblind/WB Games)
Guardians of Middle Earth (Monolith/WB Games)
Shadows of Mordor (Monolith/WB Games)
Smash Squad (WGCells)
Gigantic (Motiga/Perfect World)
TapCraft (Z2/King)
Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time (Toys for Bob)
Concord (Firewalk Studios/Sony)
Project Vance (Unreleased; Battle Barge/Probably Monsters)
