Peter Lloyd (1944–2009) was a

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specializing in advertising and digital artwork. Lloyd was born in England in 1944, but moved to the United States in 1959, where he was the youngest student to graduate from the Art Center College of Design with a master's degree. Lloyd provided art to several large advertising clients in the 1960s, including

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and the National Football League. He also illustrated for magazines such as Playboy and

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. He procured several berths in the feature film industry during the late 1970s and 1980s, including a job doing conceptual work for Walt Disney Productions in 1982; most notably, Lloyd worked on creating and refining digital effects for the 1982 film '' Tron''. Lloyd has since worked with many other motion picture clients such as

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, often as a conceptual or

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artist. In 1993, Lloyd joined Santa Barbara Studios as an

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for the 1995 film ''

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'', and later worked extensively with the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum on the 1996

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documentary '' Cosmic Voyage''. Lloyd has won several awards, including the

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Gold Medal Award.

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American illustrators 2009 deaths 1944 births Album-cover and concert-poster artists American speculative fiction artists Fantasy artists Science fiction artists American art directors American storyboard artists English emigrants to the United States {{illustrator-stub