Joel Azzopardi · Senior Environment Artist

My influences are Star Wars, obviously. I think you've got to go past Star Wars if you're a sci-fi artist. Ralph McQuarrie is an excellent concept artist. Blade Runner is another great one. Lots of old, even though it's not quite relevant to sci-fi, Jim Henson movies like The Dark Crystal, anything with strong world building is definitely an influence of mine. Not just art, that's why I was drawn to Star Citizen in general. Because it's a persistent universe. It's a living, breathing world. And to me, it captures the stuff that Jim Henson was doing with The Dark Crystal and even the Labyrinth movies and stuff.