Nine artists. 24 pieces of concept and promotional art. One game of the year contender. Thatās what weāre showcasing today in a very special edition of Fine Art, Kotakuās daily look at the art – and artists – creating the worlds from the gameās you love.
https://kotaku.com/the-last-of-us-the-kotaku-review-511292998
This feature normally covers an individual artist, but today weāre blowing the doors off and featuring pretty much the entire art team behind Naughty Dogās masterpiece, which is awesome not just because the work these guys do is woefully under-appreciated (publishers rarely publicly credit the actual artists behind the work they use for wallpapers/promos), but because itās really amazing stuff.
Seriously, if youāve played the game, and are as engrossed in the lush/devastated world as we are, this is where it all started. You can see how well the artistās work has made it into the finished product, a testament not just to their original creative vision, but the skill with which Naughty Dogās animators, designers and programmers can turn that into a 3D virtual space.
A lot of this stuff can be seen in the flesh inan art book thatās out soon
Below youāll find the names of the artists responsible for each respective piece, as well as links to their personal sites if you wanna check out more of their work.
If youāre in need of a new desktop wallpaper, good news: most of these are huge
UPDATE – Updated with more art.
WARNING: While thereās no out-and-out SPOILERS, ala the Mass Effect 2 art book giving away the final boss, some of the environments here could, I guess, be considered mildly spoilerish. Youāve been warned!
Marek Okon – http://www.okonart.com/
Nick Gindraux ā www.ngindraux.blogspot.com/
Maciej Kuciara – www.maciejkuciara.com
Aaron LiMonick ā www.limonick.com/
Hyoung Nam ā www.hyoungman.cghub.com/
Alexandria Neonakis – https://twitter.com/Beavs
Shaddy Safadi – http://www.shaddyconceptart.com/
John Sweeney – http://sweeneyillustrates.blogspot.com/
Eytan Zana – www.Zanabrush.com
