dope concept art

i love concept art. post your favorite videogame concept art itt. can be schematic/mechanical design/area and environment design/character concepts, etc.

here’s a cute drawing of the save couch from fumito ueda’s ico concept art to start

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also here’s akihiko yoshida’s cute concept art of an (unused) white mage design for alma from final fantasy tactics

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Mushihimesama

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If I saw this concept art of Sonic 2 when I was younger my mind would’ve exploded imagining all these “lost levels” and how the time travel would work and stuff. I’d be lost in my own imagination for whole weeks


This Klonoa concept art I think was thrown around for the first game? I think it eventually became Leorina in Lunatea’s Veil (the PS2 sequel) and it makes me so sad that it was changed so much because I feel this is absolutely perfect. I wanna play a game about her.

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related to that Sonic 2 concept art I posted before:

I feel like we were robbed that the Death Egg Zone never looked anything like this in either incarnation of it

Also a bunch of Sonic sketches from Toei Animation for the SCD intro

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i also love when character concept art for clothing and hair in particular uses this “faceless” mannequin style, as seen here on maya from parasite eve

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Kato’s FFXI races

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A Boy and His Blob

The remake, that is.

Shadow of the Colossus

Silent Hill: Cold Heart

This was before they added the characters from the original Silent Hill game and called it Shattered Memories.

And this is from after it became Shattered Memories. (There are several pieces that I like but this one of Lisa Garland is my favorite.)

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Love Hontani’s Grandia work.

Justine!!! I might’ve liked a build on this Feena concept over the, more typically cute final (which does appeal to a Nadia-likeness).

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Bolder Blonde Sue

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SOMA

Dead Space 2

[Untitled]

The next game by Playdead.

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There are Panzer Dragon guidebooks (1, Zwei (“Die Welt von Panzer Dragoon Zwei”), couldn’t find one for Saga) that have bits of concept art and hi-res model/environment renders mixed in.



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two of my favorite from ff tactics. ramza’s heretic armor is still an all-time best chara design

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i love how cheeked up he is here

female archer is also fab

bonus: galbadia bears logo for ff8

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i liked the sci fi book cover marathon concept art

and this guy

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has been my background/wallpaper on everything for (what I now realize has been) more than a decade

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the guild wars series always showed environmental concept art (along with a title card) whenever it loaded a new area instance. often the most exciting thing about discovering a location was just seeing what the new loading screen would look like

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guild wars loading screens are such a good rebuttal to people who claim that photobashing isn’t good

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oh yeah, right?

i was admiring the single photographic wheel included in this piece of concept art; whereas every other cog is a crude sketch

(suffice it to say nothing in the game ever looked as cool as this stuff)

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Falcom Classics II (Saturn)

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the character designs in black survival just go stupid hard

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Do you think those pants were 50% off

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