Seeing video game art being appreciated by the general public gives me some hope that it may help the medium become more appreciated as an art form.
But as games have been more exposed to the public, many mainstream curators have been hosting their
own video game art exhibitions.
Into The Pixel features a representative sampling
of video game art, selected by a panel of jurors from a field of submissions.
There are actually loads of
video game art books for sale that contain not only actual artwork used within a game but concept art that didn't make it into the final version that has to be seen.
While it's not very well known, NAVGTR is non-profit organization that holds an annual awards program to recognize the best
in video game art, technology, and production.
Included in Conference are Mentor Lounge, Connect Cafe (meet hiring studios), and a gorgeous
video game art gallery showing off Canadian game artists!
Kirby's Dream Land 3 looks like a child's drawing come to life in video game form, and somehow seems largely forgotten in discussions of great
video game art styles, a discussion it very much belongs in.
What ascends Kirby's Epic Yarn's visual aesthetics into the realms of all - time
great video game art directions, however, is how it integrates into the gameplay.
A couple of weeks ago, we teamed up
with video game art group i am 8 - bit to give away a sweet collection of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World prizes: limited edition t - shirts designed by i am 8 - bit, baseball caps, copies of the movie's soundtrack, iPhone skins, and theatrical one - sheets.
In honor of Ubisoft Montreal releasing Scott Pilgrim vs. The World for the PS3 yesterday — and for Xbox 360 in 2 weeks — we've teamed up with
video game art group i am 8 - bit to give away a collection of items that fans of the Bryan Lee O'Malley franchise will want to get their hands on.
Illustrator Cody Shaw, who runs all sorts of
video game art on his Tumblr, drew this wonderful comic that ties a nice, satisfying bow on The Phantom Pain.
Dark Horse and Bethesda Softworks ® are proud to present The Art of Prey ®, the
newest video game art book in the collaborators» line of award - winning...
Him and Ayami Kojima are the two true art designers that spring to mind when I
think video game art.
It was set in Neo-Paris (Paris in the year 2084), so you can probably imagine the sorts of
modern video game art that this book holds.
The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia not only contains great
Zelda video game art, but it also goes into the history and design of Nintendo's second biggest franchise throughout the years, touching on all of the Zelda games.
If you're looking for a
darker video game art book, you'll want to check out the disturbing concept images contained with The Art of Dead Space.
They learn to incorporate the artistic principles used in
3D video games art asset creation such as color theory, lighting, shading, anatomy, life drawing, perspective, scene staging, modeling low polygon and high polygon, 3D mesh topology, texturing, rigging, hand key character and prop animations, as well as motion capture and facial animation.
We went looking for the dimmest and most mind - boggling covers we could find to proudly display them like a freak show of
interactive video game art.
In terms of interesting facts: I
collect video game art books, have developed a gaming art book resource for use at public expos and events, recently created and curated a game photography exhibition at PAX AUS 17, and one of my triplets (my daughter) is named after a video game character.
Of course, we're also expecting big things as far
as video game art is concerned with the upcoming The Legend of Zelda Wii U game, but this book was created a year before the game was announced.
March 2 - June 3, 2018 VGA Gallery 2418 W Bloomingdale # 102 Chicago, IL 60647 Opening Reception: Friday March 2, 2018, 5 - 8 pm Chicago's
Video Game Art Gallery presents Gun Ballet, an exhibition that identifies the major styles of violence in video games — ranging from the beautiful to the gratuitous — and examines how the representation and mediation of violence achieves the expressive goals of artists.
He is also an annual Jury member for Ballistic Publishing's annual EXPOSÉ Digital art book and also an ongoing Jury member for Into the Pixel «Best
in Video Game Art» sponsored by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences and LACMA.
Media scholar Dr. Henry Jenkins has even called
the video game the art form of the 21st century.
Other than these «creative» changes, I feel the comic itself to be a delicious commentary on the overcommercialization of
the video game art form.
By distilling
the video game art form into its essential elements, VVVVVV presents a gameplay experience of exceptional purity and clarity of vision.
Though engineering has been his trade, Tim has spent his life creating art and developing
a video game art pipeline for AAA content generation.
Straight from the New Yorker's Culture Desk we have Chris Suellentrop's piece on «
The Video Game Art of Fumito Ueda».
Drawing Basics and
Video Game Art: Classic to Cutting Edge Art Techniques for Winning Video Game Design
Written by Steve Hendershot, editorial director of the Museum of
Video Game Art, the book is 300 pages of art, interviews and behind - the - scenes stories from every corner of the Street Fighter universe, from the original Street Fighter arcade game's August 30, 1987 release forward.
The 2010 Into the Pixel exhibit features twenty works of
video game art, selected by a panel of jurors from a field of submissions gleaned from artists around the world.
:) The Art Institutes offers
a video game art and design degree that's worth checking out.
This month, Giant Robot is also the place to go for
video game art.
The foresight of Cage to cast Hollywood heavyweights Ellen Page (Jodie Holmes) and Willem Dafoe (Nathan Dawkins) definitely benefited his cause to create
a video game art piece thanks to their brilliant portrayals of their characters.
A tumblr - blog, that explores «
video game art styles ``.
That pretty much sums up my take on the «are
video games art?»
Comic book publisher Dark Horse knows how to put together
a video game art book.
Video game art has always been presented in an insular fashion.
Babycastles,
the video games arts collective, is back in New York, teaming with Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi to deliver interpretations of Mario Bros., Ms.. More»