Dust 514 is a first person shooter developed by CCP Games and currently only available to Playstation 3. The game connected and affect the world of CCP other game, Eve Online. It featured impressive character and weapon work. Josh Powers, currently a senior artist at Certain Affinity is one of the artist that contribute to Dust 514 array of weaponry, from pistol to machine gun and everything in between
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
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.
Sze Jones currently lead character artist at Naughty Dog, Sony Computer Entertainment Studio. One of her latest works are the Uncharted 3 female characters and also the upcoming PS3 exclusive, Last of Us. Before that she was the character modeling supervisor and senior artist at Blur Studio, some of her work there are Lara Croft for Tomb Raider Underworld; Beatrice for Dante’s Inferno; Anders and Sebrina for Halo Wars; Twilek, Jedi Consular and Bounty Hunter for Star Wars: The Old Republic.
Rudy Massar currently Freelance Character modeler and Digital sculptor, previously he work as the Principal Character Artist at Guerrilla Games based on Amsterdam, Netherlands for 8 years. And before that he work at Willem De Kooning Academy (Media Art Design Education,Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences) teaching 3D-modelling and animation. Below are some he and his team work for Killzone 3 a Playstation 3 exclusive game.
