Rafael Kayanan
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Rafael Kayanan (born September 13, 1962, Manila) is a Filipino-born naturalised American artist of comic books. Since 1983 Kayanan has illustrated for every major Comic book publisher. His most notable works have been on Marvel Comics's Conan, Acclaim Comics's Turok and DC Comics's Firestorm. He inked the Eisner nominated series Chiaroscuro: The Life and Times of Leonardo Da Vinci for Vertigo Comics. During the late 1990s he art directed and created artwork for Cross Plains Comics featuring the pulp characters created by Robert E. Howard. Kayanan also developed concept designs for Nintendo 's hugely popular Turok 2 video game. He currently continues to do work for Topps Cards, on licenses such as Star Wars and Lord of the Rings.
Kayanan's other notable skill is swordsmanship and edged weapons. One of the few master level instructors in Sayoc Kali.
This has led to a rare combination of a visual and martial artist utilizing both skills to illustrate fight storyboards for a film where he also choreographed and trained the actors, such as in William Friedkin's The Hunted. Most recently Kayanan was a development artist, fight trainer and weapons consultant for Paramount Picture's adaptation of Edgar Rice Burrough's John Carter of Mars.
Kayanan has illustrated and developed concept designs for comic book, film and game companies. [1]
Titles he has worked on include Conan, Spider-Man, Star Wars, John Rambo, Magic the Gathering, Turok, Firestorm and Batman. [2] Kayanan's art is known for its rapid tempo storytelling pace and layered depth. Much thought is evident in the choreography of dynamic action on every page. His slick and precisioned usage of shadows to define anatomy and emotion is as proficient as any of the long time masters of the craft. [3]
Rafael Kayanan is a Master level edged weapons (knife, sword, tomahawk) instructor in Sayoc Kali. He has choreographed numerous stage and film related fight scenes with Sayoc Combat Choreography. With Thomas Kier, Kayanan was a knife technical advisor and story board artist for the film The Hunted starring Benicio Del Toro and Tommy Lee Jones. [4]
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[edit] Selected bibliography
[edit] Acclaim / Valiant
- Turok (1998 as artist)
- Turok Tales of the Lost Land (1998 as artist)
- Ice Age on the World of Magic The Gathering (1995 as artist)
[edit] Cross Plains Comics
- Robert E. Howard: A Short Biography (1999 artist)
- Robert E. Howard: Myth Maker (1999 artist)
[edit] Dark Horse
- Star Wars: Chewbacca (2000 artist)
[edit] DC Comics
- America vs. the Justice League (1985 as artist)
- Babylon 5: In Valen's Name (1998 as cover artist)
- Batman: legends of the Dark Knight (1999 as artist)
- Fury of Firestorm (1982 - 1984 as artist)
[edit] First Comics
- Michael Moorcock's Hawkmoon (1986 - 1988 as artist)
[edit] Marvel Comics
- Amazing Spider-Man (1999 -2000 as artist)
- Conan the Adventurer (1993 - 1995 as artist)
- Savage Sword of Conan (1993 as artist)
- Moment of Silence #1 (as artist)
[edit] Vertigo
- Chiaroscuro: The Life and Times of Leonardo Da Vinci (1993 - 1995 as inker)
[edit] Filmography
- The Hunted (2003)
- Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2004)
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- lambiek Rafael Kayanan. Retrieved March 28, 2006.
- albert moy Rafael Kayanan. Retrieved March 28, 2006.
- mark ou Rafael Kayanan. Retrieved March 28, 2006.
- craig zablo Rafael Kayanan. Retrieved March 28, 2006.
- brian barenio Rafael Kayanan. Retrieved March 28, 2006.
- imdb Rafael Kayanan. Retrieved March 28, 2006.
- Interview with Top Two Three Films
- SCC Rafael Kayanan. Retrieved March 28, 2006.
| Preceded by: Joe Bennett (penciller) |
Amazing Spider-Man artist 1998–1999 |
Succeeded by: John Byrne |
