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Who Are Your Favorite Game Artists?

Feerik.

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Out of all of the western game artists, Feerik's style stands out a lot for me.
 
Come on, Amano is a no-brainer!

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Also, this would be a great opportunity to ask, who made the art of the Jeanne D'Ar game for the PSP?

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I like a lot of old Capcom artists (Bengus, Edayan, Kinu Nishimura) though they've already been posted before so I'll go for some others

Alex Ahad

Takehito Harada

Also there doesn't seem to be just one artist, but I liked a lot of the late Game Republic's art. In particular, I really liked Folklore's concept art. Too bad Game Republic is gone, I'd love to have an art book from them with all of their work.
 
Peet Cooper (Diablo III, LoL)

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Jen Zee (AD for Bastion and transistor)

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Andrew Bado (Legend of Iya)

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Bogdan (freelance)

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Daniel Conway (dunno where hes at at the moment, hes Arcipello on GAF!)

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Robh Ruppel (AD at Naughty Dog)

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So many more ... there are TONS of amazing GAME artists that actually make the art in the game you play that dont get any credit because everybody hyper focuses on the famous concept artist.
 
For character design- Satoshi Urushihara (Growlanser, Langrisser)-
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and Kunihiko Tanaka (Xenogears, Xenosaga Episode I)-
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For environments, Yasuyuki Honne (Chrono Cross, Baten Kaitos)-
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Always interesting how these sort of threads consist mostly of Japanese illustrators. I think it just shows how much ownership Japanese developers will grant a single artist.
 
Guess who's mine..

Tifa from FFVII, one of my favorites of his.

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Cloud and Red XIII.

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FFV

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The iconic FFX logo. Simple, yet so elaborate at the same time.

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Two of my favorite characters in the series together. I'd do horrible things to have this drawing.

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FFX again

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Akihiko Yoshida.

Soejima.

Kazuma Kaneko (his demon design, human design, not so much)

Yoji Shinkawa.

Yoshitaka Amano,

Tetsuya Nomura.
 
Another vote for Yoji Shinkawa and then I gotta vote for Sparth (Nicolas Bouvier) (Halo 4 concept art)
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BENGUS/CRMK
Kinu Nishimura
Akihiko Yoshida
Hitoshi Ariga
Ayami Kojima
Whoever's been head of the art design for EAD Tokyo Mario games since Galaxy
Whoever's been head of the art design for Sonic games since Colors
Takeshi Oga
George Kamitani
Jen Zee
Kazuma Kaneko
Soejima Shigenori
Huke
Toru Nakayama
Alex Ahad

...

Damn, I really love me some Japanese artists.
 
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