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[throwawayname]

So much great art in here. Mine are Shinkawa and Amano.

 

[Raging Spaniard]

A lot of these guys are just insane.. wow.
I think if Michelangelo or Da Vinci would have seen some of this stuff they'd just quit.

lol not really, Da Vinci mastered traditional painting before he grew pubes and basically discovered modern anatomy all by himself. The breakthroughs, methods and polish of the old masters is untouched to this day.

If they had the tools we have today .... my God

 

[Stinkles]

lol not really, Da Vinci mastered traditional painting before he grew pubes and basically discovered modern anatomy all by himself. The breakthroughs, methods and polish of the old masters is untouched to this day.

If they had the tools we have today .... my God

 

[Always-honest]

lol not really, Da Vinci mastered traditional painting before he grew pubes and basically discovered modern anatomy all by himself. The breakthroughs, methods and polish of the old masters is untouched to this day.

If they had the tools we have today .... my God

Yeah, don't worry, i'm aware of his (and Michelangelo's) brilliance
Still, the speed and accuracy some of these artists work with is insane. INSANE!!!

 

[Max]

pushBAK (Leri Greer), he did most of the design for the HL2 mod Neotokyo

 

[Aguila]

Sammy Hall!
*sigh* My dream 2D Nintendo game (Mario, Metroid, Zelda, DK, etc.) would be based around his art.

 

[Raging Spaniard]

Sammy Hall!
*sigh* My dream 2D Nintendo game (Mario, Metroid, Zelda, DK, etc.) would be based around his art.

He is fantastic, and you know hes a Gaffer too, right?

 

[Kuran]

Some oldies, but I absolutely adored Craig Mullins' early work for Bungie. Incredible.

 

[Dragoon En Regalia]

One of my many favorites is Arne "Niklas" Jansson, who's worked on Battalion Wars, Cortex Command, and happens to be a great game design aficionado and sketch/concept artist himself. All of his game concept material can be found here. Now for some excerpts:

Off of Pixiv is another unique favorite of mine, going by Koki (warning: a good deal of his stuff is NSFW, so I'm showing the SFW material):

I really like a heavy amount of stylization and color consciousness in both fan art and concept art, so I gave two great example visual artists right here. Koki is better overall, but Niklas has so much imagination that it hurts to think of what he could do next.

 

[BrokenSymmetry]

Some more work from Daniel Dociu (for Guild Wars):

 

[Phandy]

One of my many favorites is Arne "Niklas" Jansson, who's worked on Battalion Wars, Cortex Command, and happens to be a great game design aficionado and sketch/concept artist himself. All of his game concept material can be found here. Now for some excerpts:

Prom has a sketchbook over at CA that he keeps regurly updated with pretty much everything he does. Its damn good stuff.

 

[Dragoon En Regalia]

Can't view it if I don't join! On another note, here's one more Koki masterwork:

 

[Acrylic7]

Syd Mead

Yoshitaka Amano

Tatsuya Yoshikawa

 

[Raging Spaniard]

Is Koki doing concept art for Nintendo? I mean, its nice, but thats not what this thread is asking for, somebody is bound to get the wrong idea.

 

[bishoptl]

Glad to see some big-ups for my old Relic colleagues Rob and Dave on Homeworld

Daryl Mandryk is one of the most talented guys I've ever come across, personally and professionally. Disney, Dark Horse, EA, Lucasarts, the lot. I can't recommend him enough.

 

[Dennis]

A lot of these guys are just insane.. wow.
I think if Michelangelo or Da Vinci would have seen some of this stuff they'd just quit.

You need to work on your trolling skills.

 

[sublimit]

Yoshitaka Amano
Akihiko Yoshida
Yoji Shinkawa
Masahiro Ito
Takayoshi Sato
Fumito Ueda
Shunpei Suzuki
Hitoshi Niwa
Shigenori Soejima
Ryohei Huke

 

[Dragoon En Regalia]

Is Koki doing concept art for Nintendo? I mean, its nice, but thats not what this thread is asking for, somebody is bound to get the wrong idea.

I honestly don't know about Koki himself, but the term "concept art" is so broad that even fan art can qualify. And the OP didn't clarify on whether it's supposed to be produced in-house at a developer of any sort, so there.

 

[Dennis]

Patryk

 

[TheOddOne]

Maybe not. We use Sparth (who is working on Halo 4) stuff for multiple purposes - he creates it as game concept art, and we repurpose it for posters, book covers, etc. It's never wasted work, but the more people who get to see the originals, the happier I am.

You are a good man. A good man, I tell you.

 

[HAL_Laboratory]

Beautiful stuff in this thread, keep it coming

 

[Steelyuhas]

Amazing stuff in here. I will say that some of these end up looking remarkably similar in terms of color, tone and feel, by the time they get on screen. Which is obviously super important. Bungie in particular often executes on these amazing big concept scenes and gets the precise flavor of that right i the game and skybox.

I noticed that with Reach especially, a lot of the art pieces end up looking nearly identical in the final game, which is pretty damn cool.

 

[TheOddOne]

I noticed that with Reach especially, a lot of the art pieces end up looking nearly identical in the final game, which is pretty damn cool.

Sparths stuff for Rage and Assassins Creed translated great too in my opinion.

 

[Lime]

Peter Chan (Grim Fandango)

Glad to see some big-ups for my old Relic colleagues Rob and Dave on Homeworld

Big ups? More like complete worship of these guys. The art style they went for in Homeworld 1+2 has influenced me in major ways, while opening my eyes for 70's/80s sci-fi artists like Chris Foss, Peter Elson and Chris Moore.

 

[Steelyuhas]

Sparths stuff for Rage and Assassins Creed translated great too in my opinion.

Haven't played Rage, but agreed on AC.

 

[Forsaken82]

Definitely Sam Didier of Blizzard fame. His warcraft stuff was just fantastic.

 

[Aguila]

He is fantastic, and you know hes a Gaffer too, right?

I guessed as much since he had NeoGAF as a link in one of his pages.

If you're reading:
I love your work Sammy Hall

 

[P90]

Shigenori Soejima

 

[murderofMonkey]

Ueda has great Artworks, too

 

[Diamond]

Some great ones guys ! Another one I like : Mike McCarthy from Lionhead.
Gallery >>> http://widigan.cghub.com/

 

[Callibretto]

lately I've been smitten by Gravity Daze concept art

and Yoki Shinkawa is just amazing, I can't imagine how he's starting his work, a bunch of scribbles than suddenly it looks great.

 

[hteng]

can anyone post some concept art from Dark Souls ?

 

[twobear]

Ueda has great Artworks, too

I'm not sure if you're serious but

 

[Log4Girlz]

Can't view it if I don't join! On another note, here's one more Koki masterwork:

I'm in love!

 

[mango drank]

It's more promotional than concept but I've always liked R*'s art. Not sure who the artist is though.

You reminded me that I keep meaning to look this up too. According to the internet, it looks to be mainly a guy named Anthony MacBain:
http://anthonymacbain.com/index.php?/art/grand-theft-auto-iv/

But supposedly there's collaboration between various artists on Rockstar's stuff. Dunno.

 

[Tankman]

Whoever posted Daniel Dociu was spot on, Guildwars was one of those games I didn't regret buying the collectors editions and it was mostly because of the amazing art-books that came with them.

 

[Atolm]

Castlevania LoS has amazing concept art. And you can unlock a huge art gallery in-game, too. I'd kill for an artbook.

Okami has very good concept art as well.

 

[zoukka]

Masterful work. I still don't know the artist though. The designs are instantly recognizable, unique, varied and retain just the right amount of detail to work as perfect concept art, promotional art and character design.

Such classic craftmanship and vision.

 

[whitehawk]

Man, I must imagine being a concept artist is one of the coolest jobs as an artist. You just draw (what you love) for a living and make a good wage for it too.

 

[Tashi]

My favorite is Yoji Shinkawa. I could seriously look through his art all day.

 

[zoukka]

Man, I must imagine being a concept artist is one of the coolest jobs as an artist. You just draw (what you love) for a living and make a good wage for it too.

You draw what is asked and you adapt to different kinds of new styles all the times. You are also under tight schedules.

Unless you are extremely lucky, talented and hardworking and someday people just buy off anything you make (doesn't happen to anyone pretty much).

But yeah it's a cool profession

 

[Sheap]

Beyond Shinkawa and the ever amazing Amano, I've always had a sweet spot for You Yoshinari's work.

Valkyrie Profile 2

Fan Art

 

[Mdk7]

Glad to see some big-ups for my old Relic colleagues Rob and Dave on Homeworld

Daryl Mandryk is one of the most talented guys I've ever come across, personally and professionally. Disney, Dark Horse, EA, Lucasarts, the lot. I can't recommend him enough.

You know i have a thing for Turok Bish, but i'm looking at the Turok 2 stuff and FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
i almost want to cry.

Why do they canned it, why!?!?

 

[EVIL]

Maciej Kuciara

Khang Le

Just to name a few

 

[Gattsu25]

These images are fantastic!

 

[Mista Koo]

I hate concept arts, they make games look awful in comparison.

 

[Rygar 8 Bit]

anthony francisco did some amazing art for project offset

 

[Fjordson]

Comcept art is fucking amazing.

I really love art that shows off a neat setting. Fallout 3 and New Vegas art is great for that. Not sure who does it all.

 

[blitzcloud]

<3 talexi

although that one is more of a promo pic.

 

[EVIL]

anthony francisco did some amazing art for project offset

ehh, you got your facts wrong, these are done by Khang Le, except for the second one, and also that one isn't from Anthony Fransico. Fransico did allot of the character art on offset.