Congratulations to Daniel Dociu!

Congratulations Daniel Dociu for winning the prestigious Spectrum Gold Medal for your 'Gandara' concept art! You deserve it.

http://www.guildwars.com/press/inter...09-danield.php

I've always loved his work.

Congrats!

That's awesome. As an artist myself, I have a lot of respect for him and his work. I love the concept art; always gets me excited to play Guild Wars Congratulations!

Gratz!!

i enjoyed Gandara

I absolutely love his work, he definitely deserves the award.

I wish there was some kind of collective artbook for the three games that I could buy. Right now there are just the small artbooks that come with the games, but I'd love to have something bigger with tons of concept art from all of the games.

I love the insight provided in the Q/A session. I would like to see more artists featured in the same way.

Thanks for the information.

gratz

the artwork he does is awsome

nicely done, congratz

Ditto. The art direction is one of my favorite parts of guild wars. I wouldn't dream of passing on the collector's editions just to get the art books. Well deserved.

A very well deserved honor for such a great artist!

Gratz!!!!

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He looks kinda like Jean Reno from Leon in that picture, which him even more awesome. I hope he goes into anet offices with black round sunglasses and drinks milk all the time.

Just as long as the Anet offices aren't assaulted by an insane Gary Oldman and a hundred DEA officers.

Slightly more on topic, I could have sworn I'd already read that interview somewhere before...

Honestly, this gentleman is one of the true assets that Guild Wars has right now...his contributions to the game are simply amazing.

I wonder how many more breathtaking areas he is personally responsible for envisioning for the game...

That mission needed to be longer, that was such a cool area.

Gratz!

/stands applauding

Excellent! Great to see some regognition for some of the immense talent on the design team. Amazing artist, I always look forward to the concept art. Bravo!

Same here, the concept artworks are always nice to look at.

'Bout time he got some proper recongnition.

Love him and his work. Congrats, Dociu!

The Art is fine on drawing. But the implementation was a load of bullcrap if anyone remember your time in the slums in factions. The slums were so Fugly that the only thing i wanted to do was to get out of there or turn the game off.

Otherwise Concept Art wise is fine, just a pity some of the concept art never made it into the game. Btw WTF happen to the flesh level we were promised with Nightfall?? unless of course it was the area around the Gate of Pain where it looks as if we were travelling down someone's lower intestines...so much for gore and grutesome terrain.

You guys know why he's such a great art director?


That's cuz Arenanet didn't show you guys this exclusive photo of him "enforcing" and "inspiring" his artists.