Strange And Wonderful Mirrored Video Game Cover Art – Imgur user Fryeguy43 has uploaded a gallery of twisted game art flip-takes. It’s the strange imagery that’s produced by taking a familiar piece of cover art, splitting it in half and duplicating one side on the other.
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Style is King Footnotes #4: Alientrap’s “Apotheon” – Interview with Alientrap Games, developers of the fabulous Apotheon, the world’s first and finest sidescroller inspired by ancient Greek pottery.
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Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate is a 2.5D Metroid-style exploration game for handheld devices created by Armature Studio and WB Games. It features comic strip style motion graphics which were animated from the cinematic illustrations created by Calum Alexander Watt.
These were all generated in Sketchbook Pro, then each element grouped up to be later animated and given some much needed VOOOM by the good folk at Armature studio.
Read on to see a selection of the illustrations and the Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate trailer which features much of the motions graphics work.
Fan recreates Earthbound with HD visuals – Destructoid – 3D artist Christopher Behr has spent the better part of a year giving Earthbound fans an idea of what a modern day version of the game could look like. Using his skills, he made a recreation of Onett, the hometown for Earthbound/Mother’s main character.
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Xbox Gallery is a celebration the wonderful video game artwork from some of their leading titles with commissioned fanart from several talented game fan artists. Those artists are Ian Wilding, Dan Mumford, Mitchy Bwoy, Vincent Roche, Ben Ashton-Bell and Ron Guyatt. I recommend taking a look at each of their impressive portfolios.
Welcome to the Xbox gallery: an exhibition of artwork celebrating Xbox’s rich catalogue of genre-defining titles. We commissioned several game-loving artists to create seven pieces of original art. It’s a gift from the fans for the fans. Browse the gallery; select your favourites, download and share. We are also giving you the opportunity to win the only printed copy of each of these exclusive framed works of art.
Read on to see all seven commissioned artworks.
Anatomy of Gadgets | Trend Bump – Mads Peitersen is a multimedia artist in Denmark has created a series of illustrations feature popular electronics such as the PS3 and a game controller, dissected to reveal human-like body parts such as bones and livers.
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If A Batman Game Looked Like This, I Would Never Stop Playing http://bit.ly/1f9cxrd – These images are the work of Callum Alexander Watt for Batman: Arkham Origins: Blackgate, a great handheld game from earlier this year. If you’ve played the game, you’ll know that this art was “animated” in a very simple style for cutscenes, but wouldn’t playing the entire game like this be the best?
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Rayman Legends had a fun and fresh trailer for E3 featuring plenty of visual FX. Toufik Mekbel, a France based Visual effects designer, worked on that trailer and provided some breakdowns of his FX work.
3D Studio Max was used to create the effects, utilising several plugins. The frog slobber was created with Frost and Cloth, Pflow was used for the critter horder, sparks & stardust, and also used with Fumefx to create the smoke trails.
Read on to see the stills and watch Breakdown Slobber Rayman E3 Trailer, Rayman E3 trailer, Fx breakdown and the final trailer Rayman Legends Trailer E3.
TheFWA – PS4 – This Is For The Players – Through a highly interactive user experience we invite the Players to discover in detail the iconic references in the TV ad, celebrating the history and the future of gaming on the Playstation.
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FWA winner | Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag – The Defy History campaign set out to immortalise fans within an authentic 18th century classical painting and give individuals a chance to become part of Assassin Creed’s history.
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