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Boya Sun.

Illustrator · United States

Boya Sun: Chinese-American illustrator on the 5 Worlds art team (with Matt Rockefeller and Xanthe Bouma) — richly painted, animation-quality middle-grade sci-fi graphic novels.

Boya Sun is a Chinese-American illustrator who, with Matt Rockefeller and Xanthe Bouma, forms the art team of Mark and Alexis Siegel's 5 Worlds middle-grade graphic-novel series, a five-volume sci-fi epic across an interplanetary system. Sun's contribution to the team is in colour, character design and atmosphere; the books rely on a richly painted, cinematic, fully-coloured graphic-novel style closer to animation pre-production than to standard comics linework. Outside 5 Worlds she works in animation and illustration. Her role in this corpus is specifically as part of the 5 Worlds art team.