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.
For the year 2013 Ubisoft brings the assassin to Caribbean, starring Edward Kenway the grandfather of previous AC protagonist Connor Kenway. Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag is the title for the latest entry in the franchise, it was developed in collaboration between few Ubisoft studios around the globe Singapore, Sofia, Annecy, Kiev, Quebec City, Bucharest, Montpellier and headed by Montreal in Canada.
Marthin Agusta Simny is one of the artist in Ubisoft Singapore and he was in charge to some of the character in Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, such as John Cockram, Anne Bonny and also some of the creatures in the game. Other games Marthin contribute to are Assasin Creed 2, Prince of Persia : The Forgotten Sands, Assassin’s Creed Revelations, and Assassin’s Creed 3.
Arkham Origins is the latest entry in the Arkham franchise that was created by Rocksteady Studios, but in this installment it was developed by Warner Brothers Games Montreal, a pretty new studio founded in 2010, and done a Wii U port for Arkham City with the Armored Edition.
Despite being a new studio, WB Montreal done a good job with the latest Arkham game with metacritic score currently at 76. Arkham Origins tell the story of younger, rougher Batman and it was shown with the attitude and the gadgets that are still in prototype rag tag style. It is also the only Arkham game that have multiplayer, which that element was developed by Splash Damage, a studio best known for Brink and Enemy Territory franchise.
Jocelyn Zeller is one the character artist at Warner Brothers Games Montreal. He created some of the most iconic character in the game, such as Joker with the Red Hood variant, Bane, Firefly and also Killer Crocs. Before WB Montreal, Jocelyn works for Gameloft also at Montreal.
We’ve featured the concept art work for Bioshock Infinite in our previous entries, it’s amazing so please check that one out. In this entry we will feature the work of Gavin Goulden, the lead character artist at Irrational Games, the studio that make Bioshock Infinite. The game have around 60 characters and being worked on by 2 character artists and also outsource partner. Before Irrational Games, Gavin work for Blue Castle Game and Piranha Games, he have contribute to many video game titles, such as Dead Rising 2, The Bigs 2, F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin, Damnation, Dragon Age: Origins, Fallen Empire: Legions, some of them as freelancer. Have a look at Gavin’s personal page for more awesomeness.
Brian Sum is a lead concept artist working for Bioware Montreal, the studio best known for developing the Mass Effect series and Dragon Age. Brian is one of the concept artist that contribute to the 2012 Mass Effect 3, the latest entry to the saga. He create many concept pieces for the environment and also weapon used in the single player and also multi player. Visit Brian Sum’s personal web page for more of his cool works.
With Call of Duty: Ghosts just around the corner by the end of this year, let’s look back to Infinity Ward‘s previous COD weapon and vehicles. Through the hand of Taehoon Oh, one of the individual from Infinity Ward weapon team, gamer enjoyed shooting various weapons and blowing many vehicles in the game. All the weapon he created are of high quality and enjoyable to shoot, with many moving parts and very cool texture work.
League of Legends currently one of the largest game in the world, in term of player, 12 million people play it per day. It’s a MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) game, which started to get popularized by the Warcraft mod, DOTA, which is not a surprise as two of the main creator of LOL came from DOTA. The game is developed and published by Riot Games, a studio based in Santa Monica, California, with many offices around the globe, for Asia the distribution is handled mostly by Tencent Inc.
With the number of Champions growing exponentially in the game, the character team at Riot have a hard but fun job to keep the game exciting and looks great. Maokai Xiao is one of the character artist for League of Legends, for the game he have contribute few awesome characters such as Udyr, Mundo among others.
2 of the character artists that contribute to the Last of Us have been featured on this site before, but with the the number of characters in this game is pretty big, the character team can’t only consist of 2 people. Another artist that responsible for the characters in the game is Soanala Lee, an artist known for her fantasy work featuring fairy and other magical creature. For Last of Us, Soa create few leading characters such as Bill, the tough lady Tess, Marlene and Sam. Soa currently work for the Sony first party studio Naughty Dog, and we look forward for her next contribution on the studio’s next game
Ovidiu Cristian Matei currently an associate art director at EA Sports in Bucharest, Romania. Before that he was a lead artist at EA Mobile where he created many artwork for EA’s IOS and Android game. Some of the project he have contribute to are Red Alert for Iphone and Ipad, Theme Park and Sims 3 World Adventures among others. With many limitation on the current generation of mobile device Ovidiu have succeed on creating high quality art assets that looks as good as their console counterpart. Ovidiu also work for Gameloft before EA, it’s another major player on the mobile gaming industry.
Ricky Zhang currently work as a character artist for Kojima Productions Los Angeles, known for it’s Metal Gear Solid series. Before that Ricky work for Insomniac, the studios whose artist we’ve featured here before for their latest game, Fuse. Ricky’s contribute to many of Insomniac’s game, such as Resistance: Fall of Man, Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, Resistance 2, Ratchet and Clank Future: A Crack In Time, Resistance 3, and the latest being Fuse.
