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Matt Rockefeller.

Illustrator · United States

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

Matt Rockefeller is an American illustrator who, with Boya Sun and Xanthe Bouma, forms the art team of Mark and Alexis Siegel's 5 Worlds middle-grade graphic-novel series. Rockefeller's contribution to the team is character design and atmospheric lighting; the books rely on a richly painted, cinematic, fully-coloured graphic-novel style closer to animation pre-production than to standard comics linework. He also illustrates picture books (Cinnamon, The Lonely Christmas Tree) and works in animation. His role in this corpus is specifically as part of the 5 Worlds art team.