Curse

Inde · Aug 08, 2006, 03:12 AM // 03:12

Well the post is back, not sure if any of you might remember but the ArenaNet art team had posted up their concept art before on ConceptArt.org but had to take them down until their Art book was released. And it's back in all it's glory. Check out all the eye candy here:

http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=74118

LordDeArnise · Aug 08, 2006, 03:29 AM // 03:29

Oh man, those weapons are sick. Maybe they'll be greens in a Canthan "Sorrow's Furnace" as an elite quest for all Factions players. As for some of the concept monster arts, I wonder if some of them will be on Nightfall.

Vermilion · Aug 08, 2006, 05:52 AM // 05:52

I think my eyes just exploded. A lot of great stuff in there, mhm.

Alpha Moth · Aug 08, 2006, 06:49 AM // 06:49

omg head explosion!

s t o m p y · Aug 08, 2006, 09:26 AM // 09:26

kinda scary...(the monsters)

Riplox · Aug 09, 2006, 05:41 PM // 17:41

I need to get up with a few of those people so I can get started on that career path. I LOVE ART. Must...get...art...degree.

Elena · Aug 10, 2006, 12:21 AM // 00:21

damn i'd love to see some of those monsters in nightfall

lyra_song · Aug 10, 2006, 01:31 AM // 01:31

gotta love painter

clarianaeneas · Aug 10, 2006, 04:33 AM // 04:33

I'd really love to know for once and for all what this is...

http://conceptart.org/forums/attachm...d=11551651 12

this art has been around since prophecies.

Daemon Dremora · Aug 10, 2006, 05:10 AM // 05:10

that stuff is absolutely incredible. i do believe my brain just exploded. to much beauty to hold in one head. in all seriousness, that work is truly awesome.

Nevin · Aug 10, 2006, 05:52 AM // 05:52

This is better then the ingame stuff.

Why did this never take form?... It looks 1000x better then the 15k Kurzick.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ker/Post55.jpg

Heres another thing, a possible landmark. Landmarks were definitly lacking in Factions... In Prophecies you had stuff like Anvil Rock and what not.
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f5...yHall-copy.jpg

Flesh Golems look so much better standing up.

[DE] · Aug 10, 2006, 03:14 PM // 15:14

Those were frikkin incredible. All the stuff looks even better than in the game. Half the weapons they drew and posted... well, I'd pay ALOT to get my hands on any of those.

Jetdoc · Aug 10, 2006, 08:45 PM // 20:45

H-O-L-Y C-R-A-P.

Wow, this thread is amazing.

Ventius Hozza · Aug 10, 2006, 10:27 PM // 22:27

Kuunavang looks much better standing on all fours, can actualy see what is happening and there aren't frames missing from his loop >_<

Also, why isn't all the cool stuff implimented in the game :P
You got all the really proleet ideas, now make em!

seven · Aug 11, 2006, 12:13 AM // 00:13

why doesn't some of the "better"-looking ones doesn't get implimented?
perhaps just taking a personal guess here, but being in the same line of work;

it happens very often that when you try to do a pitch of a concept you personally love and spent so many hours refining and doing countless studies of ... that it just gets shot down completely and mercilessly by your client (or team boss)

the ratio of approved and disapproved designs is not even funny, but that's just the way it is.

Omega X · Aug 11, 2006, 04:36 AM // 04:36

Quote:

Originally Posted by seven

why doesn't some of the "better"-looking ones doesn't get implimented?
perhaps just taking a personal guess here, but being in the same line of work;

it happens very often that when you try to do a pitch of a concept you personally love and spent so many hours refining and doing countless studies of ... that it just gets shot down completely and mercilessly by your client (or team boss)

the ratio of approved and disapproved designs is not even funny, but that's just the way it is.

Because of Time Constraints, Deadlines, and limits of what can be done. Some of those are REALLLY complex designs. It would take them too long to add some in with the short amount of development time they have.

The Lead Art Director gets the HARD job of what to add.

OMFGimCUTE · Aug 11, 2006, 05:14 AM // 05:14

those art works were awsome!!!! eeeeeeeeeee i wished some of those creatures and people made it too the game. they looked cool. All those pictures reminds me of Magic The Gathering somehow.

Slainster · Sep 14, 2006, 03:23 PM // 15:23

Check these pretty awesome pics...

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=74118

manager · Sep 14, 2006, 03:34 PM // 15:34

I saw this when he posted it ... it's amazing. Actually, one of the reasons i bought Factions.

LifeInfusion · Sep 17, 2006, 03:52 AM // 03:52

Um people, those arre the full glory of the art. Ingame skins cannot be as detailed without severe taxing of the graphics boards. This is why I have all the art books