What is the purpose of concept art for video games?
Concept art plays an important role in the gaming/film industry. Concept art is technically peoples ideas of what is going to be in the game, book, film or comic. Concept art helps the developers create the characters, objects or anything in the scene, even the terrain itself.
The concept art I have chosen to use are from the game developer, Bungie. A lot of people will know Bungie for making the Halo franchise only exclusive to the Xbox (Halo 1 & 2 being the only ones on PC), but with Destiny just around the corner (September 2014), they'll also be widely known on Playstation.
Bungie released concept art for Destiny, giving people a glimpse of what's to come in their game for the next generation consoles. This concept art shows one of the playable races called Exo. Bungie was inspired by Master Chief, Terminator and the undead to create Exo (You can easily see the resemblance).
Forerunner Concept Art
This was the original concept art of the Forerunner made by the artists at Bungie.
This makes a great concept art because it shows quite a bit of detail and a brief idea of what this certain character in the game would have looked like. I like how the artwork has been kept simple whilst giving it some detail. The artist kept the background one colour, instead of having a super detailed one showing a certain area of a place, like some concept arts do. I also like the design of the character. It's very creative and unique.
This makes a great concept art because it shows quite a bit of detail and a brief idea of what this certain character in the game would have looked like. I like how the artwork has been kept simple whilst giving it some detail. The artist kept the background one colour, instead of having a super detailed one showing a certain area of a place, like some concept arts do. I also like the design of the character. It's very creative and unique.
Aaron Limonick
Aaron Limonick is a concept artist at the game developer, Naughty Dog. Aaron created some amazing concept art for the Playstation exclusive, The Last Of Us. His work on environment designs are spectacular, and they are really detailed, even down to the grass. Each artwork has a different mood due to Aaron's epic work on the atmosphere.
Pat Presley
Harmonic & Dissonant Landscapes
EvE Online. Dissonance.
Harmonic.
Harmonic.
This image, of War Thunder Ground Forces, is a mixture of harmonic and dissonance.
Concept art of Halo 3, by Isaac Hannaford. Dissonance.
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