Kotaku: Art

Typographic Prints Make Art From Gamers Favorite Quips

Kate Cox — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:30:00 EST

Via NerdWire, we have today a set of typographic prints and t-shirts representing some of gaming's most famous icons, old and new. More »

Fukushima Ghost Towns

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 07:55:00 EST

On March 11, a devastating earthquake and tsunami rocked Japan. In its wake, the country's Northeast was ravaged. Buildings and lives were destroyed and lost. More »

Mario Propaganda Keeps Bowser's Home Fires Burning

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 03:00:00 EST

Fernando Reza, who floored us last year with his set of Mushroom Kingdom propaganda posters, is back in 2012 with another set, again showing the conflict from the bad guys' point of view. More »

This Skyrim Costume Turns Dovahkiin Into DovahCuddle

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 02:30:00 EST

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Legendary Crafts make beards. And helmets. And make them all out of yarn. Crocheted by hand. Their crochet skill is maxed out at 100. More »

Winter Isn't Coming, It's Already Here

Luke Plunkett — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:30:00 EST

The real stars of video games aren't the characters. They're awfully fickle, and easy to kill. More »

Sonic the Hedgehog as You've Never Wanted to See Him Before

Mike Fahey — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:30:00 EST

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Welcome to the first weekly installment of Freaky Fan Art, an exploration of the peculiar, bizarre, and downright peculiar places gamers' imaginations take them after the end credits roll. This week, Sonic the Hedgehog gets stuck in the toilet, cuddles the prince of the beasts, and finally grows a pair. More »

What Pokémon Would Look Like as Classic Disney Characters

Luke Plunkett — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:30:00 EST

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Canadian artist Beth Turnsek is the one to thank for these amazing Pokémon images which reimagine the Japanese series in her own charming style, which resembles classic animated films. More »

Mass Effect Gets the Final Fantasy VII Treatment

Luke Plunkett — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:00:00 EST

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In Final Fantasy VII, there are two art styles at work. On the overworld, everyone is blocky, cute and deformed, but jump into a battle - or look at the game's promo art - and suddenly everyone's adult-sized and finely-detailed. More »

A Zelda Movie Could Never Look This Cool

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST

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Come on, be honest. Someone, somewhere along the line would find a way to screw everything up. So these make-believe movie posters are probably as good as we're ever going to get! More »

The Xbox That Goes Ever On and On...

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:00:00 EST

Artist Mads Peitersen combines an Xbox 360 with...Bilbo Baggins' house. Don't click away without at least looking at the shadow. More »

Half-Life Art is Thinking With Portals

Luke Plunkett — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST

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If you need a Half-Life chaser after playing (or not playing) Half-Life 2 this weekend, take a look at these. More »

How the Sega of the Future Could Look

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:30:00 EST

Sega is an old brand. There's heritage in that, but also baggage. So French design firm SYN decided to take a swing at sprucing the company's image up a little! More »

Mario Meets Godzilla in These Awesome Monster Movie Posters

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:00:00 EST

Olly Moss does it again with these great posters for a very different, though still very Japanese take on the Mushroom Kingdom. More »

A Lovely Collection of Dangerous Video Game Weapons

Luke Plunkett — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:30:00 EST

Artist Chris Gerringer has compiled this arsenal of video game weapons for your collection, amusement and enjoyment. Just be careful with the sharp ones. More »

Take a Look at How The Awesome Deus Ex: Human Revolution Title Sequence Got Its Upgrades

Evan Narcisse — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:30:00 EST

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It's many months in the past now, but you probably remember watching the title sequence for Deus Ex: Human Revolution and thinking "This game is going to be awesome." That's exactly what it was supposed to do. More »

Is This the Smallest Game Boy Ever Made?

Brian Ashcraft — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:00:00 EST

The original Game Boy was big enough to fit in an enormous pocket. This Game Boy is big enough—make that, small enough—to clean your teeth. More »

This Wind Waker Sequel Doesn't Exist. But Its Trailer is Awesome.

Luke Plunkett — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:40:00 EST

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Canadian animator Joel Furtado wants to see Nintendo make a sequel to Wind Waker. In HD. Since they're likely to do no such thing, he went and made his own trailer for the dream project. More »

Link, You're Going to Need a Bigger Sword

Luke Plunkett — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:00:00 EST

The irrepressible Dan Hipp inadvertently spoils the ending of the Zelda movie that never existed with this epic image. That or it's suggesting that the Wii U can handle a lot more enemies on-screen than the Wii could. A lot more. More »

Skyrim Valentines Day Cards Remove the Need for Bards

Luke Plunkett — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:00:00 EST

This Valentines Day, let that special someone in your life show them how much you really care, by giving them a card that actually shows they'll always be #2 behind The Elder Scrolls series. More »

To-Do in Washington, DC: See Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter and G.I. Joe Invade in the Mushroom Kingdom in a CGI Art Exhibit

Evan Narcisse — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:30:00 EST

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What happens someone who grew up on the N64 makes art? You get Cammy, Sub-Zero and G.I. Joe rolling up on Mario's stomping grounds in tanks. More »

Men and Women Shrink-wrapped as Japanese Art

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:00:00 EST

Games and game hardware came packaged. They're sealed shut, some of them completely shrink-wrapped. and covered in clear plastic. They are sealed off from the outside world. More »

These Real PokéBalls Will Set Your Hands On Fire

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:00:00 EST

Aussie artist Barry Wazzy, who floored us with his photoshopped PokéBalls earlier in the month, is flooring us again this week with another helping. More »

A Collection of Broken, Wounded Pokémon

Luke Plunkett — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:30:00 EST

Pokémon don't faint. That's Nintendo blowing sunshine up your ass. They battle other creatures with elements, teeth and claws, and when one of them loses, they are beat up. More »

Beautiful Portraits of Video Game Characters

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST

Canadian artist sakimichan specialises in portraits of characters. Beautiful, vibrant portraits of characters that are so pretty you'll want to hang them on your wall and just stare at them, sighing every once in a while. More »

Mass Effect, Portal, and More as Things of Pixelated Beauty

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:30:00 EST

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What Mass Effect, Portal 2, Deus Ex, and BioShock have in common are memorable worlds and visual flairs. Not sacrificing either, artist Pieceoftoast traded the games' high-def graphics for pixels. The result is stunning. More »

Gauntlet Reimagined, Looks (Mostly) Badass

Luke Plunkett — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 03:30:00 EST

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Artist Dave Rapoza, whose amazing work we've featured before here on Kotaku, let us know over the weekend about a little competition his (and fellow artist Dan Warren's) website, Crimson Daggers, was running. More »

Droids Have Feelings too, You Know. Even When They're Not the Droids You're Looking for.

Luke Plunkett — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 03:00:00 EST

Don't assume that, just because they've been built in a factory and programmed by man, that droids are just hunks of metal and wiring. They're as much characters of the Star Wars universe as anyone else. More »

This Could Be the Very Best Pokémon Art Exhibit, Like No One Ever Was

Mike Fahey — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:30:00 EST

This April the Light Grey Art Lab in Minneapolis, Minnesota will be transformed into the ultimate trainer fantasy, when 151 artists take on the 151 original pocket monsters in an all-out Pokémon Battle Royale. More »

The Smithsonian’s Going to Throw a GameFest to Celebrate The Art of Video Games and You Should Totally Go

Evan Narcisse — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:00:00 EST

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You did vote to get your favorite games into The Art of Video Games exhibit, didn't you? If not, don't crying that Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom didn't make it into the show. Anyway, we're only two short months away from the exhibit's opening of at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Smithsonian's announced that they're holding a two-day celebration. More »

Would You Catch These Realistic PokéBalls? Could You?

Brian Ashcraft — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 01:40:00 EST

The Poké Ball, the device which catches and holds Pocket Monsters, comes in various types. There are twenty-six variations, all different. Sadly, they're not real (neither are Pocket Monsters!). But what if they were? More »

Mapstalgia Explores the Strange and Wonderful Ways Memory Changes Video Game Maps

Mike Fahey — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:30:00 EST

What you're looking at is obviously not the official map of The Legend of Zelda; it's what The Legend of Zelda's map looks like to themadjuggler, one of the many contributors to Mapstalgia, a website dedicated to reproducing video game maps from memory. More »

A Mass Effect Commander Shepherd Unlike Any You've Ever Seen

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:30:00 EST

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Male Commander Shepherd. Female Commander Shepherd. Good Shepherd. Dickwad Shepherd. The main character of BioWare's space opus Mass Effect can be played a bunch of different ways. More »

Darth Vader Riding Charizard

Brian Ashcraft — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 07:30:00 EST

Thank website Doodle of Boredom and be glad Vader is out of the ladies room and back where he belongs: riding a Pocket Monster. More »

The Sexy and Sadistic Nintendo Art of NekoshowguN

Brian Ashcraft — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 06:00:00 EST

You might not know Japanese illustrator NekoshowguN. But you damn well should. More »

This Man Can't Stop Building Awesome Mass Effect Weapons

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 05:20:00 EST

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Hey, it's Zander Brandt! Builder of fake Team Fortress 2 guns and fake Mass Effect guns, he's back with...another fake Mass Effect gun. And this one's great. More »

The Ladies of Mass Effect Cosplayed Out of This Galaxy

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 03:00:00 EST

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Photographer Darrell, aka BGZ Studios, has collected some of the best Mass Effect cosplayers around and shot them, with wonderful results. More »

Assassin's Creed Brought to Life by Famed Japanese Artists

Brian Ashcraft — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 05:30:00 EST

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In Japan, there's been a touring exhibition of Assassin's Creed art. No wonder, because the game has amazing art. Just check out the concept art for Assassin's Creed: Revelations (here and here). More »

There's Nothing Like Vintage Sci-Fi Art to Liven up a Game Cover

Luke Plunkett — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 21:00:00 EST

Few things on this planet get me more excited than classic science fiction art. Wait, no. Quality classic science fiction art. Which means people like John Berkey, who is the man behind two of the best examples of sci-fi box art from the 1990s. More »

These Greek Mythology Flash Games Are Eternal Torture

Owen Good — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:00:00 EST

Pippin Barr is back at it again. The video game researcher and artist has built a series of flash games based on the eternal, ironic punishments meted out in Greek mythology, so you can know the agony of Tantalus, Prometheus and others. More »

Bullet Bill Will Destroy This Man's Kitchen

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:00:00 EST

The aspiring baker at the wonderfully-named Bake With a Vengeance got just about the best Christmas present ever for someone who loves video games and who wants to bake stuff: a Bullet Bill blender. More »