Daniel Soloviov is character artist working for Plarium Games, a game studio based in Russia and Ukraine. The studio focused on mobile, browser games and also MMO.
Daniel himself work for the Ukraine branch of Plarium in Kharkov. He have contributed to many of the studio’s titles, such as Nords: Heroes of the North, Stormfall and Sparta: War of Empires.
Richard Smith is a lead character artist at Deep Silver Dambuster Studios in Nottingham, United Kingdom. The studio was known as Crytek UK before acquired by Deep Silver at 2014, where Richard also serve as lead character artist. Prior to that Richard Smith worked for Eurocom and Free Radical Design.
Deep Silver Dambuster released their latest game at 2016, titled Homefront: The Revolution, it’s a reboot to original Homefront, a first person shooter game developed by Kaos Studios.
Passion Republic is an outsourcing company based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The studio specializes in digital content creation such as creative direction, making game cinematics, next gen video game character, to asset creation and animation.
Passion Republic have worked for many well known companies all over the world, such as Activision, Microsoft, Sega, Rocksteady, etc. One of their work are for Batman: Arkham Knight, a super hero action game by Rocksteady Studios, check out various 3d model made by Passion Republic for the game.
Mike Kime is a senior character artist working for Epic Games in Cary, North Carolina. Mike have been working with Epic for more than 8 years and contributed to many of it’s games such as Gears of War series, Infinity Blade and Fortnite.
Paragon is the latest game from Epic, it’s a MOBA with a third person action point of view, featuring many different heroes with special skills.
Jeremy Klein is a freelance character artist based in Austin, Texas. Before freelancing Jeremy worked on many different companies, such as Vigil and EA Mythic, working on titles like Darksiders.
Warhammer 40K : Dark Millennium is a game developed by Vigil, which supposed to be an MMO and planned to be published by THQ. But with THQ going under the fate of the game is not clear now.
Florent Renard is a character artist based in Paris, France working in Gameloft. Recently Florent has been working on Gods of Rome, one of the mobile games developed at Gameloft, it features array of awesome gods characters and stunning next gen mobile graphic.
Most of these characters are below 20k triangles and used 2x2k textures set and 2x1k textures set. Check out some of these cool characters made by Florent Renard
John Gotch currently work at Kojima LA, part of Konami development studio, working on the next chapter on Metal Gear saga. Before Kojima LA, John work for Molten Games as senior character artist.
Molten Games which now shuttered was working on a games known as Project Blunderbuss, the game (looks like going to be MOBA genre) which featured stylized art direction also canceled. The studio, Molten Games, based on San Diego was formed by veteran of Blizzard, Relic Entertainment and Sony Online Entertainment, it was also backed by NCSoft on it’s financial side. With the reception of the demo mainly positive it is quite unexpected for this studio to be collapsed, but nothing is really secure in the video game industry these days.
We have featured the work of Sam Yang on our previous entry, this young man was employed at Riot Games and Blizzard working on hugely popular game, League of Legend and Starcraft 2. Sam currently running his own studio, Sammu Studios, developing their first game “Colossal Defenders”, the studio also provide outsourcing service for digital sculpting, 3D modelling and texture painting.
Check out some of Sam Yang character work for League of Legends, featuring the skins of few champion such as Trundle, Sejuani, Lucian and Ezreal
Jean-Brice Dugait is a concept artist working for Ubisoft based in Montpellier, France. He have contributed his art work for Rayman Origins and Rayman Legends. The video game feature the protagonist Rayman and 3 other character on a coop adventure, and released on multiple platform, from PS4 to PS Vita.
Comicon Challenge is an annual video game art challenge event held by GameArtisans.org. It focuses on character art, where participant needs to re imagined their comic character of choice and build a game model or concept art of it. With awesome judges and cool character artists competing, this challenge have produce many character arts we never imagined before, from Brainiac to Hawk Girl and Judge Dredd, here are some of them from 2014 event
