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July 3, 2013

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Samaritan Tech Demo Assets by Pete Hayes

We have feature the latest Epic’s tech demo on previous post. The 2 demo wasn’t the only demo made by the Gears studio, back in 2011 at the Game Developer Conference, Epic released their real time tech demo for their Unreal engine called Samaritan. It was a pretty mind blowing as everything was running at real time and featuring many cool feature such as tessellation and displacement, Image-based reflections, subsurface scattering, bokeh depth of field, etc. These feature now available for UDK, the free version of the engine.

Pete Hayes is one of the artist working at Epic that contribute to this phenomenal tech demo. He made the weapons and many other assets used in it. Other than this he also worked on Gears of War series as well as the Unreal franchises. Below are some of Pete works on Samaritan tech demo.

July 1, 2013

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Avengers Initiative Concept Art by SIXMOREVODKA

Avengers Initiative is a mobile game by Marvel, released for IOS and Android platform, it features loads of Marvel super heroes such as Hulk, Captain America and many others. The graphic quality of the game is exceptionally good for a mobile game, with detailed character and beautifully crafted environment.

SIXMOREVODKA is an outsource studio in Berlin focusing in 2D artwork and related service. This studio have contribute to series of concept art and marketing images for Avengers Initiative, most notably the main banner of the game featuring Hulk and Super Skrull.

June 30, 2013

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Metro Last Light Character by Pavel Dorokhovsky

Pavel Dorokhovsky is the lead character artist at 4A Games, a game studio based on Kyiv, Ukraine. Before that he was a senior character artist at Vogster Entertainment. 4A Games just released their highly anticipated title, Metro Last Light, the successor for the Metro 2033. It’s a post apocalyptic shooter featuring vast world and awesome art throughout the game. Pavel contribute to the game by creating around 50 characters for Metro Last Light, here are some of his work

June 30, 2013

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The Last of Us Characters by Michael Knowland

Naughty Dog is the home for amazing story driven video game, they’ve demonstrate it with the Uncharted series featuring the protagonist that everybody love, Nathan Drake. Now with their latest game, The Last Of Us, Naughty Dog bring the awesomeness to another level. The story of the game is so grim but it made us care for the characters that we control, Joel and the girl Ellie.

The 2 main characters of The Last Of Us was brought to life by the hand of Michael Knowland, the lead character artist at Naughty Dog. Before Naughty Dog, Michael works for Frontier Development at the UK, the developer of Kinectimals and many other games. Michael also made few other important character on the game such as Tommy and some of the infected. The zbrush sculpt really show Michael attention to detail and his knowledge of anatomy, they are all looks great.

The Last of Us, is a Playstation exclusive and once again level up the bar on visual presentation in video game. It is currently one the best looking game in the whole platform, and we can’t wait what Naughty Dog prepare for the next gen (Playstation 4)

Here are some of Michael Knowland works on The Last Of Us characters

April 4, 2013

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Bioshock Infinite Concept Art by Ben Lo

Bioshock Infinite just launched and as the name implied, really shock the world with gorgeous world, riveting character and really well thought gameplay mechanic. The reception of the game have been very very well, with many video game site and blog gives Infinite almost perfect score, even Polygon giving it 10 out of 10, huge success for the folks at Irrational Games.

With the world so big and beautiful, Bioshock Infinite needs good concept art as a base, and to make a good concept art, one need great concept artist. One of the concept artist worked for Irrational is Ben Lo, who currently work as a concept artist for Bioware Montreal. Originally from Toronto Canada, Ben was hired by Irrational to do environment concept art, but he also got his hands on Booker and Elizabeth, the two protagonists of Bioshock Infinite.

April 3, 2013

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God of War: Ascension Characters by James VanDenBogart

We’ve featured the work of Bryan Wynia in the previous post, now we’ll feature more work from his colleague, James VanDenBogart is also a character artist at Sony Santa Monica, working on God Of War: Ascension. Before at Sony Santa Monica, James work for ArenaNet the developer of the very well received MMORPG, Guild Wars series.

April 2, 2013

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God Of War: Ascension Characters by Bryan Wynia

God Of War: Ascension is the latest installment in the God of War series, featuring the always angry protagonist, Kratos. In this game Kratos fight the Furies whose plan to overthrow Mount Olympus together with Ares. The action adventure series developed by Sony Santa Monica, one of Sony’s first party studios, and is a Sony Playstation 3 exclusive game. It is the first God of War game that brings multiplayer component.

The game feature series of awesome character, from the protagonist Kratos, to the highly detailed Cyclops. These characters are brought to life by Sony Santa Monica’s character artists, one of them are Bryan Wynia. As a senior character artist, Bryan responsible to some of the important characters in the game including Calliope, Kratos’s daughter. Before Sony Santa Monica, Bryan works for Naughty Dogs, the developer of Uncharted series, he also worked for Gentle Giant working on digital sculpting for various CG purpose.

Some of the titles that Bryan Wynia have contributed to are God Of War: Ascension, Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves and Golden Axe: Beast Rider. Below are some of Bryan Wynia works for God Of War: Ascension character

April 1, 2013

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Mass Effect 3 DLC Character by Herbert Lowis

Herbert Lowis, a character artist whose work we’ve featured here before, have update his portfolio with some of his latest creation. Herbert who currently work for Bioware, also involved in the development of Mass Effect 3, he created many of the characters in this highly rated game.

Herbert responsible for the Adjutant, Ann Bryson, Elcor and many other character in the game, from modelling, sculpting up until the texturing phase are part of his tasks. He also work on many characters for the DLC of Mass Effect 3, from the critically acclaimed “Leviathan” to “Citadel” Herbert have lend his skill to leverage the series DLC to another level.

April 1, 2013

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Wildstar Concept Art by Cory Loftis

Wildstar is an upcoming MMORPG developed by Carbine Studios. This MMO presents a very distinct unique art style, with hand painted texture and stylized character and environment. The setting of Wildstar is Nexus, a planet on the far side of the currently known galaxy. From the website, the game currently pit Exile against Dominion, these 2 factions feature many race, such as human, Cassian, Draken and many other.

Cory Loftis currently a Visual Development Artist at Walt Disney Animation, before that he was the Lead Artist at Carbine Studios for 6 years. Cory is one of the individual that define the looks of Wildstar, check out some of his concept art work for this uniquely looking MMORPG

April 1, 2013

Unreal Engine 4 Tech Demo “Infiltrator” and “Elemental”

Unreal Engine 4, Epic Games shiny new game engine just got a new tech demo shown to people at this week GDC in San Fransisco. The real time tech demo, as in the name show the hero with fancy hair do infiltrating a base guarded by soldiers, and at the later stage of the video escaping it. The demo reported to be run on a single off the shelf Nvidia GTX 680, and looks really really good considering that it was a real time demo.

The tech demo really shown the capability of the Unreal Engine 4 with fully dynamic lighting, new Unreal Kismet and many improved features from Unreal Engine 3. Check out the video below

At June 2012, Epic shown the “Elemental” demo, really mind blowing at that time, and now also at GDC they make the demo run on PS4, still a very impressive demo, the video

If this is how the future game will look, then next gen will be a really an awesome time for gamer, can’t wait till PS4 and the next Xbox launched this holiday.