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
also here’s akihiko yoshida’s cute concept art of an (unused) white mage design for alma from final fantasy tactics
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
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
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.)
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).
Bolder Blonde Sue
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.
has been my background/wallpaper on everything for (what I now realize has been) more than a decade
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
guild wars loading screens are such a good rebuttal to people who claim that photobashing isn’t good
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)
Do you think those pants were 50% off
