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
Taehoon Oh, whose work we’ve featured in previous GameArtHub post, was a was a weapon and vehicle artist at Infinity Ward (one of the studio responsible for mega franchise Call Of Duty). Taehoon last work for the studio is the 2013 Call of Duty Ghosts, which was co developed with Raven Software. Ghosts continue the tradition of previous Call of Duty success and the next installment (COD Advanced Warfare) also seems going to follow the path, the game looks really brilliant!
Currently Taehoon Oh is the COO and co founder of Reload Studios, an independent game development studio, creating content for Virtual Reality and existing platform.
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
Yaron Levi is an exceptional artist with hard to match hard surface modelling skill. We’ve featured his work before for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 weapons, not only that he also work for many cool blockbuster games, such as Crysis 3, Alien Colonial Marines, Hawken and many more.
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
On our previous post we have featured few characters from the single player part of Arkham Origins, by one of WB Montreal character artist, Jocelyn Zeller. But the 2013 Arkham game also have multiplayer component which developed by Splash Damage, a game studio based on London, UK that developed Brink and Enemy Territory:Quake War before.
Ben Davis is the lead character artist for Splash Damage and he brings some of the awesome characters for the Arkham Origins multiplayer to life. Ben have contribute to few awesome titles such Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, Brink and the upcoming first person shooter Extraction.
Alexander Birtles is a character artist working for Rebellion, a video game studio based on Oxford, United Kingdom. Rebellion is known for it’s Sniper Elite game series for PC, PS3 and XBox360.
Alexander Birtles have contribute to quite a few video game titles, such as Rogue Trooper, Aliens Vs Predator, Never Dead and Sniper Elite V2. Check out his character work for Aliens Vs Predator and Never Dead.
Joshua Lynch currently employed at Trion Worlds at San Diego, the studio that develops Rift and also Defiance, massively multiplayer online role-playing game for the TV series with same name. We have featured the work of Satoshi Arakawa before for the character art side of the game, and now the work of Joshua Lynch mainly focused on the environment and props aspect of it. Before Trion Worlds, Joshua Lynch work for 2XL Games, working on many games such as Hyundai Driving Sim, Motocross Matchup and Jeremy McGrath’s Offroad among others. Make sure to check Joshua Lynch’s website for more of his work.
Anthony Vaccaro is an environment artist at Naughty Dog, first party studio of Sony best known for Uncharted series and Jak and Daxter series. Anthony previously work at Bungie working on Halo Reach, also as an environment artist, and he graduate from the Art Institute of California, San Diego for Bachelor in Game Art and Design.
