Video game concept art is also of interest to me, going through the various processes to formulate a character or vehicle is a very interesting and rewarding process.
Not only would this be an interesting project to test my skills of imagination but also it would help greatly in improving my anatomical drawing.
The two main forms of concept art in video games are character/vehicle concept, Environmental concepts and Scenario concept. Character and vehicle concepts tend to usually have the style of sketches and further developed and coloured designs over a whit background, sometimes with notes made by the artist pointing out important factors.
Scenario based Concept art
This form of video game concept art is aimed at showing characters and vehicle design in their appropriate context, such as in an environment to form a battle-scene. Sometimes these are shown to the game makers themselves, to push them further to attempt to match the quality/atmosphere on the concept in the game itself.
With this type of video game concept art style differ. Sometimes there simple digital speed paints (bottom right) similar to the character/vehicle concepts and other times their very in-depth 3d illustrations (bottom left).
It would be very interesting to embark on a project to design concept art for a fictional video game of my imagination. And try out all three forms of video game concept art, Time constraints would probably lead to only being able to achieve 1 or 2 of those aims however.
Half Life 2 Concept Art
nice work!
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