4755ea No.15483098
What are your favourite video game artists? This thread isn't for whether vidja is art or not, but let us instead appreciate the great work concept artists have created for the games we like or even love.
What are your favs?
Favourite artstyle?
What makes a character good in your opinion? is it mass appeal or rather being relatable or it's unique looks?
Personally, I'm a huge fan of Renge Murata Akira Toriyama and Kazuma Kaneko since their artstyle are like a breath of freash air in a world what has become samey.
f7a46e No.15483190
Kinu Nishimura - famous for promo illustrations for plenty of Capcom titles, gone freelance now if I'm mistaken. Love her style, sharp and very detailed.
Makoto Tsuchibayashi - works include RE1, DMC1, Sengoku Basara 1-3, Shinobi and Nightshade (PS2) and Vanquish. He's good as a artist but downright excellent as a designer.
Jun Tsukasa - worked with Psikyo, a small developer that mostly did mahjong and shooters, very lewd stuff. Last I saw of his work, he was doing the occasional doujin pin-ups, very detailed guns and muscle girls.
Nona - worked for SNK for a while, KoF 2001-2002 and SvC. His style is noticeably grotesque but I think it was a lot of charm to it. Might be an acquired taste for some, especially for those that were accustomed to Shinkiro's much more tame style.
Bengus - recently fallen from grace because of his shoddy work in SF5 but he used to be of Capcom's best artists and that is saying something as this one of the things were Capcom excelled at. Like Nishimura, he's essentially a promo artist but as some designs like Onimusha Dawn of Dreams.
f7a46e No.15483277
Daigo Ikeno - another Capcom vet, designer credits include DMC3 and SF4, art director of Dragon's Dogma and promo artist for a lot of titles, including 3rd Strike. I've always liked how heavy his figures look, like there's a skeleton and muscle underneath it all.
Edayan - and another Capcom vet, did promo art for the SFA series, design and promo art for Rival Schools and its sequels and other titles. His figures are very colorful and stylized.
Shigenori Soejima - from Atlus, their new art director, filling the very big shoes of Kazuma Kaneko. Mostly known for very leggy figures but his creature designs are great too.
Eisuke Ogura - SNK artist, used to do in-game artwork and some illustrations for various titles but has recently took over as main illustrator since SNK's resurgence. Draws manly men with toned physiques and lovely ladies with soft lines and colors.
George Kamitani - can't talk vidya art without mentioning the head of Vanillaware. All of their titles are works of art to the finest detail as expected from a studio composed of a handful of artists. Kamitani's work is known for being excessively stylized or, as the enlightened geniuses that make up western gaming journalism, "something a 13 year old would draw".
e1e766 No.15486457
>>15483098
>>15483190
Range Murata, Tsukasa Jun, Suemi Jun, Yoshinari You/Kou and Kojima Ayami are my favorite vidya artists. To me, they manage to capture the essence of human anatomy and make it so that it looks amazing rather than like shit, but they each do it in their own unique ways that leave me stunned. I mean, I know it's just concept art for video games, but it feels like some thing that belongs in an art house. You can almost feel the story going on within the picture.
f978c8 No.15486483
The Brandish: The Dark Revenant in-game art was fucking incredible, alongside the promo art
Too bad I could never find the name of the artist
158d8e No.15486545
Since music is art too: I really like the music that Torbjorn Brandrud makes, he was one of the composers of the music of AM2R too. Written the music in the PDF, and when I was practicing it on the piano, I got stuck on a certain part. Messaged the dude, got a delightful response back on how to play the part I was having trouble with. Nowadays, he makes and transcribes a lot of vidya and anime music.
158d8e No.15486730
>>15486545
Talking about official art, I really like spritework from GBA, arcade, SNK etc. too Fanart is really specific for me, but I really like Iahfy and Splashbrush's drawings.
ee0197 No.15486959
>vidja
Designated shitting thread?
b5abff No.15487079
A mention of the anonymous heroes of Nazca Corporation.
Also, trying to pick up more concept/early art I found some ten years old venom about Retro Gamer magazine while trying to pirate a 'Making of' article about Metal Slug: http://archive.is/QPYF8
f7a46e No.15487143
>>15483784
The others have a lot of artists for the design credits but D&D's solely Nishimura's.
>>15486457
Kojima's pretty good but I gotta admit I'm partial to Masaki Hirooka, the artist who worked on Order of Ecclesia, it's a similar style but not as fujoshi-ish.
Also noticed I didn't exactly answered OP's question because I honestly don't know how to. Either I like it or I don't, I don't think there's much consistency to all the artists I like even if they're almost all Japanese because the styles vary wildly but creativity is the key point.
On that note, a few more…
Shigatake - Vanillaware artist, style is distinctly cutesy and colorful, so dudes and monsters aren't his forte.
The 15-20 people team who worked on the Souls games and Bloodborne - not very good at drawing faces but armor sets and jewelry are always meticulously detailed and very well designed, like Tsuchibayashi's work, you can perceive every part of a design despite the detail never coming off as excessive.
Akira - kinda cheating since this hardly qualifies as a game but from artists working on Kantai Collection, Akira's easily my favorite since he designs the Abyssal Fleet, hands down the best thing in the franchise. I'm a sucker for predominantly b&w designs and fat anime tiddies which he provides in spades.
Takuji Kawano - mostly famous for SC2-6. Fantastic artist proficient at drawing all kinds of characters but, assuming he's the one heading, his work as a designer as been getting progressively worse.
Raita - porn artist gone mainstream, Raita is basically Soejima + Kamitani. Wish he had more prominence besides Valkyria Chronicles and FGO, seems the perfect match for a Vanillaware game or for a fighting game done in the style of GGXrd.
3d2470 No.15487194
Nice art OP. I don't really follow artists, musicians or writers. Just the final products of their work. I'm sure most other anons are the same. The few that I do, I know because of something negative like a controversy. Identities are not as important as the works themselves.
5120c3 No.15487902
My favorite is the Master of Breasts himself, Satoshi Urushihara. I don't even mind all the sameface.
b8d0a4 No.15487973
>>15483190
I really like Kinu Nishimura. All of her capcom stuff is great. Was disappointed when she got cut from the last Zero Escape game.
Is that fighting game she recently worked on any good?
c92076 No.15488262
Toru Nakayama is my favorite vidya artist, which is saying a lot, for I normally don't care too much for the art (let alone the artists) in games unless it has a certain style that catches my eyes. However, with Nakayama's art-style, it is a style which I can only dream of coming close to emulating. It is the perfect blend of cute and cool and the amount of detail he adds to his drawings is honestly incredible. If it wasn't for Nakayama, I wouldn't have loved the Megaman Zero series as much as I do right now. He truly was the coolest dude.
Also, he is a huge fan of Kamen Rider, which already is another massive plus in my book!
f7a46e No.15488330
>>15487647
Bengus has some fantastic stuff and between many, you can barely tell it's from the same artist. Sadly, people now just associate his name with SFV's shoddy story mode art.
>>15487973
You mean Blade Strangers? I think her only involvement is because it has 2 or 3 characters from Code of Princess, that beat 'em she worked on. Dunno if that game is any good though but impressions in the FG thread didn't see favorable but then again we complain about everything there.
Anyway, gonna take the opportunity to drop a couple of links for the collectors out there. At least the first two were good for some things but only the first is exclusively VG-related.
https://vk.com/vgartbooks
https://vk.com/c_artbook
https://vk.com/conceptart
Do tell if you know of any treasure troves.
26dedd No.15488658
>>15488624
>He designed Pulse Man, didn't he?
Pulseman? No, that was Ken Sugimori.
5d491f No.15488741
Tetsuya Nomuras art is amazing and helped me fall in love with aya. Wild arms art is also usually top tier especially Tomomi Sasaki, when he is not drawing gay doujins of the same series for 10 plus years
b58c6c No.15488742
I like Vidya art that is made by Eroge artists
5e10bc No.15489903
I really like Ooba's style, and the hatched shading he adopted looks really comfy, and for the most part his take on prior characters either left them fairly intact, or the redone versions still work out great (Boomerang, for example; bonus points that his original design still shows up as well). It's a shame he doesn't seem to get much work anymore, in series or out. His replacement, Sasaki, is good as well. I can't say I'm that big a fan of his own personal interests as a doujin artist (not so much the fact he is one, but more what he's into), but he's got a nice sense of style and can still design some nice looking designs, even for the girls, despite spending over a decade repeatedly making gay as fuck shit about SoA's Vyse. At least he seems to leave his fetish out of professional work for the most part.
>>15488741
Note that Sasaki only joined with 5 and XF. 3, ACF, and 4 were by Ooba, and I'm still having some trouble tracking down who worked on 1 and 2, assuming they were even the same guy.
5e10bc No.15489944
>>15489903
Also like HACCAN’s work, probably most known prior for Mushihime-sama designs, though he’s also been contracted for the likes of Avalon Code (which is what I’ve known his work from first) and most recently, apparently Fire Emblem Heroes. Unfortunately he’s also got his name on those poor quality 3D Seiken Densetsu remakes Square's been putting out lately, though it’s not as if his take on the character designs has been the problem there.
One more of note: Watching RahXephon recently, apparently the conceptual artist Bones used for that back in the day also dabbled a little in vidya design prior, particularly Mystic Ark for the SFC (which the last image was art for). There’s a high res scan set of his artbook for that game floating around (as well as another for RahXephon) as of last year, so if that’s of interest, it might be worth looking for.
>>15486483
Credits for the game have a number of different people listed as "Art and Graphics." However, two of them seem to be kept distinctly away from the others: Toshio Inoue and Atsushi Takai, both of whom are listed above and before the others. I'd wager it was probably one of them. You might try to see what else each has done art and graphics for, and if there's one that one worked on but the other didn't, see if it looks remotely similar to the style in those Brandish images.
>>15488330
>VK
Actually been slowly trying to catalog all their vidya stuff as a list with names and links alphabetically, since the site itself has some good stuff but the organization leaves it a clusterfuck of blogposts.
>>15488741
Also, forgot to mention in the previous post, but if you like Ooba's work, I can upload his Chronicle: F artbook to the vola or something. Just saying since the guys that did the original scans (DesertMoon; quality is unfortunately kind of mid-res, and they never did get around to reuploading at a higher size) took down their website, so I feel it kind of falls on those who saved the whole thing to keep it circulating.
9708f0 No.15489973
There are too many artists whose art I enjoy. I just wish it was easier to find older artbooks. Besides character designs though, I can really get behind good architecture designs. Same with cool fantasy vehicles and monsters.
>>15488330
The links are really appreciated.
5e10bc No.15490014
>>15489973
>I just wish it was easier to find older artbooks.
Same. Not sure how accurate it would be at this point in time as the series went on, but the classic era Wild Arms (1, 2, and Twilight Venom) had an art/lorebook, pic related, but there's no scans to found of it beyond a few pages/partial pages here and there, photos of bits being more common, and it never came out here. I've seen a few copies floating around on Yahoo JP auctions, but much a fan of that series as I am, I don't want to drop that kind of money when I don't even have a scanner for it to begin with.
And while I am on the topic, if there's something that pisses me off even more, it's scanners who have a book, don't do proper unbound flatscans, and then crop it down to just the character/image in question alone, because apparently who the flying fuck cares about having the artist notes, let alone having the book as entire pages. Glad the scan-anon in the share threads goes for full size, high res stuff in comparison to some of the fuckers I've seen elsewhere.
9708f0 No.15490079
>>15490014
>it's scanners who have a book, don't do proper unbound flatscans, and then crop it down to just the character/image in question alone, because apparently who the flying fuck cares about having the artist notes, let alone having the book as entire pages.
That is very irritating. Speaking of which, it's nice when some artbooks have their artist's notes in english like the Battle Angel Alita artbook or the Growlanser artbook. I'm on Yahoo Auction seeing if I can find the old Umihara Kawase artbooks.
>Glad the scan-anon in the share threads goes for full size, high res stuff in comparison to some of the fuckers I've seen elsewhere.
The thanks is appreciated. Seeing all the good artbooks on Sad Panda got me into scanning. I'm glad I can store this stuff online so others can enjoy it as well. It takes a lot of time and scrutiny to properly scan these things. And even then, months later, I can go back and notice mistakes I've made.
f7a46e No.15490133
>>15490014
>Glad the scan-anon in the share threads goes for full size, high res stuff in comparison to some of the fuckers I've seen elsewhere.
Dang it. Seems like I've been missing out.
5e10bc No.15490546
>>15489903
Should also mention Tarou Yamazaki made some rather comfy location art for ACF. Was fun stumbling onto his now-dead site some years ago whilst helping another anon look for something I'd figured to be unrelated. I'd thought the latest "game" he'd been contracted on for a while was some Monster Hunter TCG or something, but it looks like he got picked up for 2D art for Xenoblade Chronicles, Xenoblade 2, and production art for Breath of the Wild, none of which I remember seeing mention of on his site while it was alive. Still though, I think the only games he's been the (a?) main artist on have been Dragon Valor and The Eye of Judgment.
Pics being from some samples he once hosted on his ACF page. Most of the ones there having been parts of the castle and Elw related dwellings, so I'm left to guess those were amongst his favorite places to work on, or something. There's a lot more in the artbook for the game, and for some reason he seems to like tossing Jet (who isn't even from that game, hilariously) in as a scale for size at times.
>>15490133
His scan sets make it various hosting sites beyond just sadpanda, and I assume they're all still there.
>>15490079
>That is very irritating.
Worst thing is that for most people, I'd assume that still suffices. And most other sites claiming to host such themselves are more apt to just be reuploads of the original shoddy version.
Anyhow, considering you've done scans of one of Tsunako's Nep books, do you know if there's anything like that for Fairy Fencer as well, as they share both artist and company? I know that NISA had one for the CE of the original PS3 version out here, but I'm assuming it's probably either mangled in the notes, or skimped on compared to what Japan might have seen (especially if they might have gotten a second, extended one natively due to the expanded rerelease). On the other hand though, I'd wager demand for scans of such would be pretty low compared to Nep, especially considering the cast of it is more balanced than being 99% girls.
a99857 No.15490613
Yoji Shinkawa, Ayami Kojima, and Kozaki Yusuke would be a few I can name as being my favorites since I horde their art books whenever I can find them up for download.
Yoji Shinkawa is my personal favorite artist since his work has this rough look to it and the calligraphy like lines convey dynamic gestural poses. His art also appeals to the mecha autist within me with his ability to make more conventional mechs like Rex and more semi organic looking ones like Ray, Gekko,and Jehuty. His designs in MGS2 and 4 are some my all time favorites in terms of character and mechanical design.
Ayami Kojima's works are just beautifully rendered that I can enjoy her fujoshit designs. I really dig her stylized realism and the way she renders eyes. She can also design some hot women like Alucard's mom in SOTN.
Kozaki Yusuke, I just find his style appealing. His best work in my opinion would be his character designs for No More Heroes due to all the memorable bosses he had designed, Alice being my favorite of the bunch. He also did a very cute redesign of Nagase from Ace Combat. Shame he suffers from same face syndrome which is really evident in his contributions to Fire Emblem.
308c02 No.15490621
>>15490014
>don't do proper unbound flatscans
You'd practically destroy the book for that with regular flatbed scanners. I understand why they wouldn't.
76d089 No.15490646
>>15488330
>the second one
WHAT'S WRONG WITH CHUN-LI'S HAND?
5e10bc No.15490648
>>15490621
Yeah, I get it too. And for works where the art isn't near the spine crease, I guess it's alright; When it's too close, or spread over multiple pages though, not flat scanning distorts the inner parts, which for a viewer is annoying. To be fair, I'd wager most weren't meant to be viewed outside of book format, but at the same time, it's a sacrifice on the buyer's to make the work more readily accessible at proper visuals.
443f65 No.15490681
>>15488742
>Eroge artist makes delicious waifu characters
>There are some male characters tossed in but whatever
>Suddenly you're expected to use the two least interesting male characters BY THEMSELVES in three swarms of enemies that are 20+ levels higher because the game expected you to use those lameos in a waifu game
>Only method of exp sharing involves using rare drops and alchemy so you probably missed it by this point
Chapter 7 was a mistake.
5e10bc No.15490850
>>15490789
Actually decided to dig through the credits for both of the PS1 games. First one is clear enough due to organization and not having a huge amount of people, apparently:
>Character Graphics: Keiko Matsushita
>Animation Creator: Madhouse
Second game, not so much, as it has stuff kind of scattered around and in some cases doesn't mention specifics of which person/team did what in particular.
>Illustrations Designer: Masayuki Kaneko
>Character Graphics Designers: Akihisa Watanabe / Yu Hiki
>Original Character Designers: Nitaro Fuiji / Akihisa Watanabe (Yu Hiki and Hiroki Ishii listed separately; might be NPC designers, I don't know)
>Animation: Production IG / IG Niigata / Takuranke Studios / A.P.P.P. / Jungle Gym
>Animation: OH! Productions / AIC
>Animation Production: Production IG Co., LTD.
And yes has multiple categories of staff from each studio, and then lists Animation again. I suppose IG though had overall control though. So no mention of Sunrise for either, unless it was former staff that moved elsewhere. That's also assuming the they translated the staff names for the credit properly at that.
5e10bc No.15490971
>>15490850
Should also say that the factor that most official art for WA1 and 2, at least what tends to be readily locatable from the time, tends to be extremely low res, and while I appreciate XSEED giving us an 80 page mini artbook with WA5, it's still a small artbook (the width and length of a PS2 case) as opposed to a big indepth one. Nor does it contain all the official art (pic related for instance is absent, though I'm glad someone out there deemed that page worthwhile, especially at such res). More reason why it's a shame Fargaia Chronicles hasn't been scanned.
Related note, but does anyone else feel dirty about saving good official art being used for fucking trash? Like, it's nice that there's new official art for the protagonists of the series, but I fucking hate that it's stemming from it being sent to mobile hell. And it's Gachashit at that because of fucking course it is, if what I'm reading is accurate.
ae2230 No.15491036
>>15490681
More like you're shit. It's a Shining game. Level up all your units, you pissant.
443f65 No.15491240
>>15491036
>It's a shining game
>units
So you haven't played the game at all. Okay.
5e10bc No.15491411
>>15491036
Resonance is one of the action RPG entries in the series, not a tactical RPG if that's the line of what you're thinking. I'm just saying. Though, obviously if playing a game without standard leaked experience (which is what it sounds like), it's still wise to take the time to evenly level, just as a precaution.
f7a46e No.15492027
>>15490546
>His scan sets make it various hosting sites beyond just sadpanda, and I assume they're all still there.
OK. I usually look up artbooks on e-hentai aka sad panda for idiots.
1fa3ad No.15499878
Bump. I have a post I want to make, but don't have the time to flesh it out.
5e10bc No.15500592
>>15490971
>>15489903
Dug around and found some more official art I hadn't seen for the series before, no thanks to people not doing full, proper scan sets. Though, I'm not sure if these first six are from the Material Collection, or just the JP promo site, since I have seen old screenshots of them having been on it (if the latter, I'm glad someone thought to extract them, because I can't seem to find shit for where the promo site had possibly been).
5e10bc No.15500608
>>15500592
Also some other sketches Tomomi did.
b42e60 No.15501593
>>15483098
I see your have great taste OP
f4bfb6 No.15501728
>>15491411
I think I know what part the other anon is talking about. Towards the end of the game Lestin and Agnum act as a distraction so your main party can sneak into Georg's stronghold. Those two have to fight a few waves of imperial troops until you switch back.
Having underleveled/unused characters is understandable because the game doesn't expect you to use specific party members except for this one particular moment, and it never does so again, either.
I ended up grinding to get past that section. It isn't game breaking but I would consider it to be a bit of a dick move on the behalf of the devs. The game is already fairly flawed (the art is one of the few redeeming qualities, everything else about the game is very "generic") so I can understand how that may be the straw that breaks the camel's back for some.
f7a46e No.15503048
Well folks, it's been fun but vidya art is over. It's gonna be all Peachoopa or whatever they're calling it all day every day from now. 4400 hits on Pixiv and it hasn't even been one freakin' week. How can one little 4koma by a twitter nobody do this?
4f6edc No.15503521
>>15503048
>Bowsette/Koopahime from here to infinity
My dick is ok with this.
26ee9e No.15503588
>>15503521
what about the other Super Crown wearers
f7a46e No.15503665
>>15503521
Just wonder how long the fad will last and I wish they'd calm their tits, shit's going so fast it's impossible to savor.
Here's one by Yasuman Akira aka Akiman.
>>15503588
Fortunately it didn't stick beyond Teresa-hime, I was afraid this would be the art 'tism apocalypse and that crown would make its way to other places.
26ee9e No.15504528
>>15503665
>he hasn't seen sans-ette yet.
but i'm a nice guy and will show you a lego princess instead
5e10bc No.15505180
>Catalog shows post count of 54.
>Thread currently only displaying 41.
5e10bc No.15505317
>>15503665
>>15503048
I hope it collapses soon myself. Bad enough having to constantly filter touhou, kancolle, and fate by sheer virtue of just how much shit gets pumped out for each of them on a daily basis. Like there needed to be another scourge upon fanart sites. This stupid peach thing is even getting artist hcgs already.
6539a2 No.15505426
>>15503048
what's even worse is that the design is just a copy paste from previous peach hentai works that have been circling the internet for years . But we shouldn't bring this up outside of the containment thread lest we derail.
f7a46e No.15505797
>>15504528
The depths of depravity!
f7a46e No.15505847
>>15505317
Just gotta weather the storm, at some point everyone's gonna get it out of their system.
>>15505426
Just found it very odd. I think this is unprecedented, not even 2B or Dragon's Crown exploded like this.
5e10bc No.15505920
>>15505847
Hopefully. But some things just don't die. Especially if it falls under "fetish tier" as I assume this shit does. Worst thing is that, assuming it's not considered its own character and thus easily filterable, it's going to pollute Peach related searches forever, but that's entirely on the uploader/site to take into account.
3db63d No.15507745
>>15505920
Tbf, it's just like any other meme that's popped up within the last couple of years: at most it survives for 2 months, declines in popularity and then it dies when the next meme pops up. I'm not expecting anything different from this one, just like I didn't expect any different from the "Virgin killer sweater" meme
6539a2 No.15510584
>>15507745
Virgin Killer Sweater was pretty bad, to be fair. That seemed to have died out quick from my point of view because it seemed too tryhard in trying to ride the coattails of another meme. Better comparison would be the Open-Chest Sweater meme, which while died down will never truly completely disappear.
f1cb01 No.15515035
>>15505180
Who drew these beauties?
70d3fd No.15515068
>>15505847
> at some point everyone's gonna get it out of their system.
give it another week, there's already discourse among savages trying to politicize what is just goth peach at the end of the day.
f7a46e No.15515293
>>15515068
>politicize
I can already see the blue checkmarks turning purple. "Men enjoying something? Not on my watch!"
It's starting to trickle down, I open up a booru and only half the page is magic crown stuff. But like I said, we should count our lucky stars this didn't catch out besides Bowser and Boo.
Enough of that nonsense and let's get back on topic. I wish I had Edayan's stuff in higher resolution, I'd kill for a good Project Justice set.
70d3fd No.15515352
>>15515293
>I can already see the blue checkmarks turning purple. "Men enjoying something? Not on my watch!"
eh some twitter right wing guys actually started slapping MAGA hats onto pictures of her to try to claim the character first and rile up the shithole
65f77c No.15515534
Look up Julian Marcel, he’s a really good illustrator for an independent game development “company” that he runs with his friend Ding dong, whom also does pixel art. Both are great artists and I would highly recommend checking them out.
5e10bc No.15515727
>>15515035
I'm pretty sure they're monster sheets from either WA3 or ACF. I forget which game the Grow Apple, at least that look for them, started in, so I'm thinking ACF, but I know the artbook for that game does not include a bestiary section. Either way, I'd say it's Ooba, since he worked on that era of the series.
f7a46e No.15515813
>>15515352
That's somewhat unfortunate too. Either way, comes off as parasitism trying to make something what it wasn't meant to be. Let's have some non-political cancer for once. :^)
Anyway, have some Hiroaki. Mostly known for his work in SNK titles, he also did the art for God Hand and the story mode art for the upcoming Soulcalibur VI.
5e10bc No.15515827
>>15515727
>>15515035
Actually, I take that back. Looking into the credits, they note these guys for monster design for the time, so one or more of them, I'm guessing: Tetsuya Ōkubo, Takayuki Yabubayashi, Hiroki Ishii, Yutaka Kunimoto, Yuu Hiki, and Yasuhiro Shibuya. Most of those seem to be/have been mainstays with Media.Vision for the duration of the series, if not beyond; Ōkubo in particular, whether acting as art/visual director, monster designer, or even producer in some cases.
e51fa9 No.15517721
japs seem pretty good at anatomy, but why do they make the faces retarded?
9e2799 No.15523548
Not sure who did it, but I absolutely love the concept art of Halo Reach. Masato Kanno's work on Ace Combat is stellar too. Not sure if it counts but since Sui Ishida has done some video game art I'll put him here too. I absolutely adore his use of color and his art style in general. Easily the best thing about Tokyo Ghoul was its art.
5e10bc No.15525277
>>15523548
>Not sure who did it, but I absolutely love the concept art of Halo Reach.
According to Mobygames, concept art (note that this is apparently a different category than "environmental art", if you also mean that) is credited to Steve Chon, Alex Chu, Isaac Hannaford. Site's pretty decent for looking for stuff within a game's credits, assuming they have them for a given game, without risking much in the way of spoilers an actual credits clip might.
3426dd No.15530697
>>15517721
Depends on the artist. I've seen artists that make amazing faces (like Yoshinari You or Kojima Ayami) or at least competent faces (like Range Murata and Tsukasa Jun) and I've seen artists that are absolute shit at making faces (although none of them are in this thread thank god). It's really more of a case-by-case thing instead of a widespread thing.
eb842c No.15536417
Judging by the art its only weebs that post in these off topic threads.
d04488 No.15537667
2477ee No.15537711
>>15536417
Sage isn’t a downvote.
746cfe No.15538097
I totally forgot I made this thread.
>>15487902
Forgot about him aswell. Also, Growlanser>Langrisser
>>15501593
Thanks. I see you're a man of culture aswell.
>>15536417
Video game design isn't off topic even the art direction isn't to your liking.
746cfe No.15538100
4391ef No.15543126
Show me some good monster art.
d32b3c No.15543211
>This Thread
>All this lewd shit
wew.
df56ec No.15543255
Any lovecraftian, or early 2000s late 90s anime esq art is always the most appealing in my eyes. I guess a good example would be Alitas Gunnm art style. Its so appealing i wish more current media would have it.
>>15543211
Endless legends art direction is great, the music is perfect too. Probably the only reasons i pick up the game from time to time. Broken lords are the most fun class
5e10bc No.15543283
>>15543255
Kind of a shame that the Shadow Hearts artbooks never focus on much conceptual monster art, beyond Soul Fusions (which even then they don't seem to give much focus). Because that series has great enemy design. This is assuming though that the scans of each I've come across are even complete to begin with though, given my experiences with finding incomplete crops for other series that seem to toss anything that isn't directly character art or a large scale concept piece.
336ad2 No.15543287
a worthwhile comparison of how the infusion of EA, tumblr, and jews completely destroys a series from the ground up
DA:O - Walking down the steps of a historied city, the falling flowers further heighten his noble demeanor and arrogance toward the plebian masses. Everything about this image says "holier than thou."
DA:I - "So I stuck it in up to my elbow!"
d32b3c No.15543295
>>15543255 (checked)
>He likes Endless Legend
Very Nice.
>He also likes Broken Lords
I see I am in the company of a man of great taste.
49a269 No.15543319
>>15543287
I have a feeling that the image on the left is some sort of early concept for Loghain. The red petals and dark clothing give sense to the symbols of "the bloody tyrant". Not to mention that it looks like him if he had facial hair.
336ad2 No.15543327
>>15543319
it is indeed concept art for Loghain
05298f No.15543375
>>15543287
It's not just the subject matter. The first game had an actual artist doing the concept art. The third was probably just some random talentless tranny they found on tumblr that would work for cheap.
49a269 No.15543376
>>15543327
Interesting. I wish they kept that design instead of the generic plate male and shaven face. Looks much more intimidating with what the art has on him. I'm assuming his daughter looks way better in the concept art, too. Morrigan has the same problem. The concept art of her makes her look much younger and more innocent for a slutty witch, almost as if she is a teenager, but her ingame model makes her look mid/late twenties.
eb4707 No.15543498
>>15483098
I'm kinda wondering what the hell Demi-Fiend's pose is in that picture. Is it implying that he summons all his demons at once to sleep on or something? He looks like he's stretching after waking up, and thinking "yep this shit is my life" like he forgot he did that.
I mean, it can't be an orgy because his pants are still on and the clothed demons still have clothes on.
f7a46e No.15543530
Demons collection is more plentiful, mostly for Kanako's work.
005257 No.15548153
>>15543530
Those are styled just the way I like it. Like the artist read my mind.
f7a46e No.15548678
>>15548153
Kaneko's interesting because he couples a very distinct style with noticeably conservative designs, when it comes to depictions he never strays far from the well-known descriptions.
b28337 No.15555426
>>15543530
>>15548678
I kinda wish the Persona games stuck with his art style. It's definitely more unique and more attention grabbing than the generic animu waifu bullshit they draw now, Sure he has a serious case of sameface, but if the art is fundamentally good like Kaneko's art is, I can forgive that 100%.
f7a46e No.15556752
>>15555426
I see what you mean but to play Devil's advocate, Soejima's pretty good when it comes to designing creatures and stuff. His art style being anime-ish is another issue but I agree it stole the focus to the waifu stuff. That said, I'm curious about their next project which is meant to be a fantasy setting and see what Soejima can pull off given all his designs so far have been for modern settings. Kinda ditto for Meguro and his music.
Magical crown seems to have finally died down. We survived. :^)
3b1501 No.15557827
I really like what Yuji Uekawa did in the early 2000's.
470073 No.15558585
King of Dragon Pass had great art; very evocative of the game's unusual fantasy setting. The upcoming sequel, Six Ages, is pushing the art quality even further.
508e52 No.15558631
>>15557827
agreed, it's like he drew a circle and then drew the characters inside the circle. with the exception of e102, who is an oval The way the lines curve around is really interesting.