Fallout 3

So here’s some of the artwork made for Fallout 3, I’ve played this quite a lot, and I must say it’s probably the best game of 2008, although with any game I can pick flaws,
The game kinda just finishes without warning, and it indeed ends, where few games like this let you continue onwards to explore etc, I won’t spoil the ending tho if you’ve not come across it yet, the game is a great game both visually and the concept idea of the whole fallout universe is one anyone will love, which is no supprise that they could well be planning a movie of fallout, it wouldn’t supprise me if someone like ellijah wood play the lead, I suppose the chances of a fallout film would be slim lol, bearing in mind projects like, the halo film, gears of war film, and a world of Warcraft film still seem slim chance and far away, we can only hope the magic of fallout comes to the screen.

Anyway, I’m writing this on my iPhone with the magic of technology, so I will add some more things in the near future on fallout 3 artwork, in the meantime I’ll upload some images off my phone, enjoy!!

Artist: Raphael Lacoste – Assassins Creed/Ubisoft Titles

Undoubtedly one of my Favourite Digital artists along with Martin Mckenna, is Raphael Lacoste, who works with Ubisoft Montreal, who’s been the concept artist on such titles as, Prince of Persia, Assassins Creed and also FarCry 2.

Lacoste is now leaving Ubisoft to work with Montreal based Visual effects company, RodeoFX (The Golden Compass).

He specialises in concept art and Matte painting, Matte Painting is painting with the use of Photoshop, 3D software, and using images from a Stock of photographs, most likely taken by himself, as he is an professional photographer.

An example of Matte Painting:

Lacoste was the Art Director for Assassins Creed, hence why look at his work for Assassins Creed and you instantly see the amazing work thats gone into it, Shadows, lighting, atmosphere, and great depth.

I love the technical side of games, like Unreal engine and how it can achieve such detail, with trickery. Gears of War was undoubtedly the best looking game ever made, until Assassins Creed. Gears of War lacked Atmosphere and the Frame rate wasn’t the best at small parts of the game.

Am Interview with Raphael Lacoste can be found at 3DTotal Artist: http://www.3dtotal.com/team/interviews/raphael_lacoste/raphaellacoste_01.asp

Raphael Lacoste’s Website: http://www.raphael-lacoste.com

Raphael Lacoste’s Deviant Art: http://raphael-lacoste.deviantart.com/

And as always, Examples of the artists, Raphael Lacostes work. Also, please note, im not 100% sure all this work is his, but are taken from projects he worked on, and are his style. Its Possible some of the none Landscape Work is done by David Levy

Prince Of Persia

Assassins Creed

Far Cry 2

Artist: Hiroyuki Ito – Final Fantasy – Battle Designer

Hiroyuki Ito, Has worked on Final Fantasy for the whole series, originally as a Debugger, which basically means he played the game and worked out any errors. In his time at Square, he went up as his experience on the Team grew, he became a more valued worker and started designing, his First game he was lead designer on was Square’s Tom Sawyer, based on Mark Swain’s Novel, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and he then worked on the game Rad Racer 2, as the lead designer.

He continued to work on the Final Fantasy games, and on Final Fantasy 4, he became the Battle Designer and also came up with the Active time Battle system, which has been used in almost every Final Fantasy game since.

His biggest role in a video game could be argued, but personally would be his work on Final Fantasy 9, in which his contributions were Director, Melodies of Life lyrics (credited as Shiomi), Game designer and Tetra master, the original concept for the card game, which also featured as part of the Final Fantasy 11 universe, where you could play the game on-line with friends.

He also worked on the main song for that game, Melodies of life,

[Edit] Here is the Japanese version on Imeem (May need an account) : http://profile.imeem.com/mhNwkP/music/EImBqijB/emiko_shiratori_melodies_of_life_japanese/

I cant share the MP3’s of the English and Japanese, so have this link instead to something you’ll like

Live performed (yay ): http://www.crunchyroll.com/media-144141/Emiko-Shiratori-Melodies-Of-Life-live.html

The following video is an interview with Hiroyuki,

Hiroyuki Ito on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroyuki_Ito

Artist: Yoshitaka Amano – Final Fantasy

Yoshitaka Amano, undoubtedly one of the best fantasy artists in Japan and the world, his work is really inspiring (Also inspired the work of Yoji Shinkawa-MGS Artist) , Amano’s work is a blend of traditional Japanese artwork and a cartoon style.

His work offers amazing colours, with fantastic detailed textures of clothing, and magical scenes that often create part of his work on Final Fantasy game series, which he will have worked on for… 20 years now.

His work is noticeable by the colours and traditional look, but he’s also worked on other things, Like anime, examples are; G-Force, Angels Egg and Tekkaman, and most recently he did some Elektra comics for Marvel. As well as working on Vampire Hunter D, a popular Japanease anime, he did the original artwork for.

Amano currently has an exhibition in Berlin at Michael Janssen Gallery, running until the 29th of February 08.

Make sure you bookmark his site http://www.amanosworld.com/
His Website is partially been updated by the looks of it, mainly the new stuff he’s working on, ceramic medium, which would be really interesting to see, and also, the Final Fantasy Section which could be updated with Artwork from his current project Final Fantasy XIII.

Check the following sites, and carry on scrolling for Media links and pictures.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshitaka_Amano

Yoshitaka Amano’s Work at Michael Janssen Gallery in Berlin; http://www.galeriemichaeljanssen.de/index.php?/artist/yoshitaka-amano/

These videos of him working in front of a crowd, and the speed he does it shows his confidence at painting, granted he may have painted them a few hundred times before, but still, enjoy

Amano Paints Judge

Amano Paints a Moogle

Amano Paints Sephiroth (FFVII)

Amano’s 1001 nights [Stage6] (Stage6 Divx is great but that site can be under maintenence) or Part 1;

Part 2;

Part3;

A Day With Amano, Day 1

A Day With Amano, Day 2

A Day With Amano, Day 3

And Finally, some images of his work from Final Fantasy IX.

And Final Fantasy X-2.

Artist: Yoji Shinkawa – Metal Gear Series

Yoji Shinkawa, the artist behind the Metal Gear Solid series, is one of my favorite artists, his artwork is very suggestive as he works with black and white, he leaves your eye to fill in the gaps, alot like my other favorite artist, Frank Miller, who I found out was one of Shinkawa’s influences. Although he’s developed his own style, which can be noticed anywhere.

When he adds colour to his artwork, ( I think its watercolour ) it really gives it a whole new feel and makes it come together in an even more interesting way. He’s a fantastic artist. Check him out at the following links.

http://www.creativeuncut.com/profile_shinkawa.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoji_Shinkawa

Also check these pieces of his work.