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[Violet_0]

Gaf loves dem anime girls

 

[Silky]

Feerik.

Out of all of the western game artists, Feerik's style stands out a lot for me.

 

[Cess007]

Come on, Amano is a no-brainer!

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

 

[Nags]

Every artist already mentioned in this thread so far, plus:

 

[DiipuSurotu]

Akihiko Yoshida

Pretty sure this one is by Tsubasa Masao.

Anyway, my favorite are Akihiko Yoshida and Yasuyuki Honne.

 

[kiriin]

Kekai Kotaki, no longer works for Anet but he and Daniel Dociu are responsible for Guild Wars 2 amazing art direction.

 

[Silky]

Alex Ahad's the artist for Skullgirls, right?

Peacock the god

 

[TheOGB]

SHINKIRO

Nobody else like him.

Came to make this post almost exactly (all caps, TvC art)

As always, BENGUS

Akiman is the king.

Shoutouts to these guys. Also a fan of Omar Dogan; Yuji Uekawa; and then there's the fine folks who work on Skullgirls, Alex "o_8" Ahad, Mariel "Kinuko" Cartwright, and Jonathan "Persona" Kim.

 

[Ultimadrago]

SHINKIRO

Nobody else like him.

The correct answer.

 

[Murder. She Wrote]

Yoshitaka Amano is hands down the best in the industry. One day I will get a large print of these and frame them in my house. This is the Treasures of Aht Urhgan expansion cover art for FFXI, and one of my favorites.

 

[rasberryjam]

Does Akira Toriyama count?

Either way, Steve Purcell is up there as one of my favorite artists period.

 

[DocSeuss]

My internet's weird, so no pics, but I really like Joe Mad.

 

[Dio Brando]

+1 for shinkawa. LOVE his artstyle.

And ayami kojima is a godess. love her work too.

like the other artists already posted. Amano in particular.

 

[FourMyle]

Practically every Capcom artist from the past and present. Also, Akira Toriyama.

 

[TheSpaceBetween]

The art teams at Retro and Sony Santa Monica are the cream of the crop IMO.

 

[Ratrat]

Whoevers responsible for Fable and Dishonoureds art direction.

 

[Mr. PlayStation]

Not a single person has mentioned the living legend Yoji Shinkawa?

Edit: Beaten

 

[Evilisk]

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.

 

[Raging Spaniard]

Peet Cooper (Diablo III, LoL)

Jen Zee (AD for Bastion and transistor)

Andrew Bado (Legend of Iya)

Bogdan (freelance)

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

Robh Ruppel (AD at Naughty Dog)

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.

 

[suzu]

- Akihiko Yoshida
- Kazuma Kaneko
- Tetsuya Nomura
- Kinu Nishimura
- Akiman
- Shinkiro

 

[jgmo870]

Takeshi Oga; his concept art for gravity rush is gorgeous.

The man needs more work on fantasy projects.

 

[Currygan]

among other famous ones, John Harris, creator of Awesome and awesome creator

 

[Touch fuzZy. get BizZay]

Shigenori Soejima <3

Persona 3 & 4

 

[Kageshinzo]

On the Eastern side:

Yoshitaka Amano

Hyung-Tae Kim

BENGUS

Akihiko Yoshida

Ayami Kojima

On the Western front:

Kekai Kotaki

Jen Zee

The rest of the western artists I follow sadly do most of their work for print or media.

 

[~Devil Trigger~]

As always, BENGUS

Winner

Joe Mad! is one now too these days so, him too

 

[Creaking]

Ayami Kojima

Takuji Kawano

But my favorite concept art has to be that of Wolfenstein 3D

 

[Sojgat]

Carlos D'Anda

Jeff Agala

Joe Madureira

 

[Voliko]

For character design- Satoshi Urushihara (Growlanser, Langrisser)-

and Kunihiko Tanaka (Xenogears, Xenosaga Episode I)-

For environments, Yasuyuki Honne (Chrono Cross, Baten Kaitos)-

 

[Noogy]

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.

 

[Snakeyes]

Akihiko Yoshida
Kazuma Kaneko
Shigenori Soejima
Kinu Nishimura

 

[TWILT]

Yusuke Kozaki
Shigenori Soejima
Shinkiro

 

[AmanoBuff]

Guess who's mine..

Tifa from FFVII, one of my favorites of his.

Cloud and Red XIII.

FFV

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

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

FFX again

 

[striferser]

Akihiko Yoshida.

Soejima.

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

Yoji Shinkawa.

Yoshitaka Amano,

Tetsuya Nomura.

 

[Tashi]

Another vote for Yoji Shinkawa and then I gotta vote for Sparth (Nicolas Bouvier) (Halo 4 concept art)

 

[Azure J]

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.

 

[Crash Station]

Komatsuzaki Rui is a recent favorite of mine. Really love those spiral eyes in Danganronpa.

 

[KiraXD]

Joe Madureira