A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Originally from Blackpool, England, Sean moved to the United States with his parents at a young age. Having moved to Los Angeles to attend the prestigious Art Centre College Design, Sean graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree and went on to design concept cars at General Motors for 2 years. In 1991, his interests moved to the film business, where he has had a prolific career working on films for Steven Spielberg, Ridley Scott, Michael Mann, Luc Besson, and many more. He has worked as a production designer at George Lucas's Industrial Light and Magic, James Cameron's Digital Domain, as well as a matte painter at Rhythm and Hues Studios. His talent encompasses production design, concept design, illustration, and photography. Sean has worked on such diverse films as Seven, Batman Forever, Heat, Jurassic Park: The Lost World, The Fifth Element, Shrek, Toy Story 2, The Seventh Son, 300: The Battle of Artemisia, and many others. Sean's book 'Places' was published in 2011 to great reviews. The book focuses on Sean's personal design work using cutting-edge software to express his ideas and showcasing them in lavish illustrations. Sean has lectured at the Art Centre College of Design, Apple Computer Industrial Design Team, Microsoft/NNokia Design Beijing, Otis College of Art and Design, The National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts, The Beijing University of Technology, Jian Qiao University in Shanghai, and Siggraph. He has won the AICP Award twice and has been nominated for four Art Director Guild Awards, winning one. His work is in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art in New York City and has been featured in the exhibition 'PIXAR: 20 Years of Animation' at MOMA in New York City.
Concept Artist:
2002 Rollerball
2004 Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
Conceptual Design:
1997 The Fifth Element
2002 Rollerball
2004 Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
2021 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Production Design:
1997 The Fifth Element
2001 Thir13en Ghosts
2002 Rollerball
2004 Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
2005 Neverwas
2021 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Production Illustrator:
1995 Crimson Tide
1997 The Fifth Element
2001 Thir13en Ghosts
2002 Rollerball
2004 Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
2005 Neverwas
2021 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Storyboard Artist:
1993 Doppelganger
1995 Crimson Tide
1997 The Fifth Element
2001 Thir13en Ghosts
2002 Rollerball
2004 Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
2005 Neverwas
2021 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Visual Development:
1993 Doppelganger
1995 Crimson Tide
1997 The Fifth Element
1999 Toy Story 2
2001 Thir13en Ghosts
2002 Rollerball
2004 Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
2005 Neverwas
2021 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Visual Effects Art Director:
1993 Doppelganger
1995 Crimson Tide
1997 The Fifth Element
1999 Toy Story 2
2001 Thir13en Ghosts
2002 Rollerball
2004 Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
2005 Neverwas
2016 Star Trek Beyond
2021 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.