The Art (we may never get)

[rasmusvn]

We collect art in the form of lithographs, giclees, metallic prints and so on.

Most of these are pretty great, but every now and then it seems like there are missed opportunitues. There's plenty of great concept art out there, yet only some makes it as actual prints we can buy.

There's plenty of reasons for this; some logic, others not so much.

I personally follow:

- CGHub (http://cghub.com/)
- Concept Art World (http://conceptartworld.com/)
- Dead End Thrills (http://deadendthrills.com/)
- Kotaku - Fine art (http://kotaku.com/tag/fine-art)

If you know of great concept art for games that was never actually made available as prints post it, the same goes if you know of great artists on CGHub or other sites like that who do concept art for video games.

Or if there's some more current concept art that you'd like to see as a print.

It doesn't have to be concept art, it's just that most lithographs etc. are made from concept art.

Here's a few examples. I don't think these exist as prints, correct me if I'm wrong. For full resolution you have to click the image and download.

http://i1031.photobucket.com/albums/y373/rasmusvn/Forum/Art%20we%20never%20get/Thessia.jpg (http://s1031.photobucket.com/user/rasmusvn/media/Forum/Art%20we%20never%20get/Thessia.jpg.html)?

http://s.cghub.com/files/Image/346001-347000/346661/843_max.jpg (http://cghub.com/images/view/346661/)Gilles Beloeil - La clairiere

http://i1031.photobucket.com/albums/y373/rasmusvn/Forum/Art%20we%20never%20get/MassEffect2CraigMullins.jpg (http://s1031.photobucket.com/user/rasmusvn/media/Forum/Art%20we%20never%20get/MassEffect2CraigMullins.jpg.html)Craig Mullins

Beats the hell out of that "Collectors" lithograph.

http://s.cghub.com/files/Image/263001-264000/263041/092_max.jpg (http://cghub.com/images/view/263041/)Mikko Kinnunen - ME3- Crucible

http://i1031.photobucket.com/albums/y373/rasmusvn/Forum/Art%20we%20never%20get/original5.jpg (http://s1031.photobucket.com/user/rasmusvn/media/Forum/Art%20we%20never%20get/original5.jpg.html)Craig Mullins

http://s.cghub.com/files/Image/215001-216000/215328/279_max.jpg (http://cghub.com/images/view/215328/)Matt Rhodes - Illusive Office

http://s.cghub.com/files/Image/263001-264000/263071/306_max.jpg (http://cghub.com/images/view/263071/)Mikko Kinnunen - ME3 - Teaser matte concept

http://s.cghub.com/files/Image/219001-220000/219794/591_max.jpg (http://cghub.com/images/view/219794/)Mikko Kinnunen - Reapers

I much prefer this over the "Reaper Attack" lithograph.

http://s.cghub.com/files/Image/166001-167000/166246/346_max.jpg (http://cghub.com/images/view/166246/)Gilles Beloeil - San Marco

http://i1031.photobucket.com/albums/y373/rasmusvn/Forum/Art%20we%20never%20get/original.jpg (http://s1031.photobucket.com/user/rasmusvn/media/Forum/Art%20we%20never%20get/original.jpg.html)?

http://i1031.photobucket.com/albums/y373/rasmusvn/Forum/Art%20we%20never%20get/ReaperDestroyer.jpg (http://s1031.photobucket.com/user/rasmusvn/media/Forum/Art%20we%20never%20get/ReaperDestroyer.jpg.html)?

They aren't all perfect, but I like them.

Turns out you can buy some of those AC-prints, they cost a fortune (around 1650 euro).
http://arludik.com/oeuvres/CREED%203/creed.htm

[Treehouse_Ryan]

That Craig Mullins ME2 piece was a poster for a while.

One of the issues here is that a lot of concept art is done by outside shops, or by freelancers. So when the game actually does come out and it's appropriate to start doing prints, the original artist is long gone and the game company has a hard time tracking them down for permission/release/signatures. We've had a few really cool pieces killed on account of some un-amicable splits, too.

A few of those ME3 ones were my favorites from when we were going through the art book, and I lobbied for them to be lithos....

[rasmusvn]

http://s.cghub.com/files/Image/196001-197000/196136/741_max.jpg (http://s.cghub.com/files/Image/196001-197000/196136/741_max.jpg)Donglu Yu - Assassin's Creed Brotherhood: Reward Room

Click for full resolution.

http://donglu.cghub.com/

[rasmusvn]

Via the links you'll get very high-res for TR.

Some of the TR-shots have been available in limited editions for conventions, but I thought I might as well post them.

Dead End Thrills = Super optimized screenshots.

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2011/07/halo_graphicnovel.jpg (http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2011/07/halo_graphicnovel.jpg)Craig Mullins

http://driber.net/os/tr9/Concept%20Art/Night%20Hub%202.jpg (http://driber.net/os/tr9/Concept%20Art/Night%20Hub%202.jpg)Tomb Raider

http://barbarella.deadendthrills.com/imagestore/masseffect3/1920/theblackangels.jpg (http://barbarella.deadendthrills.com/imagestore/masseffect3/2560/theblackangels.jpg)Dead End Thrills - The Black Angels

http://i1031.photobucket.com/albums/y373/rasmusvn/Forum/Art%20we%20never%20get/HaloCraigMullins.jpg (http://s1031.photobucket.com/user/rasmusvn/media/Forum/Art%20we%20never%20get/HaloCraigMullins.jpg.html)Craig Mullins

http://barbarella.deadendthrills.com/imagestore/masseffect3/2560/frostspire.jpg (http://barbarella.deadendthrills.com/imagestore/masseffect3/2560/frostspire.jpg)Dead End Thrills - Frostspire

http://driber.net/os/tr9/Renders/TR_Crossroads_RGB_5000x2444.jpg (http://driber.net/os/tr9/Renders/TR_Crossroads_RGB_5000x2444.jpg)Crossroads (internal art team at Crystal Dynamics)

http://barbarella.deadendthrills.com/imagestore/masseffect3/1920/contagion.jpg (http://barbarella.deadendthrills.com/imagestore/masseffect3/2560/contagion.jpg)Dead End Thrills - Contagion

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2011/07/brute_kick.jpg (http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2011/07/brute_kick.jpg)Craig Mullins

http://barbarella.deadendthrills.com/imagestore/masseffect2/1920/thecoldwar.jpg (http://barbarella.deadendthrills.com/imagestore/masseffect2/2560/thecoldwar.jpg)Dead End Thrills - The Cold War

http://barbarella.deadendthrills.com/imagestore/masseffect3/2560/sheslostcontrol.jpg (http://barbarella.deadendthrills.com/imagestore/masseffect3/2560/sheslostcontrol.jpg)Dead End Thrills - She's Lost Control

http://driber.net/os/tr9/Renders/Lara%20Portrait.jpg (http://driber.net/os/tr9/Renders/Lara%20Portrait.jpg)Lara - Portrait (internal art team at Crystal Dynamics)

http://barbarella.deadendthrills.com/imagestore/masseffect3/2560/homefiresburning.jpg (http://barbarella.deadendthrills.com/imagestore/masseffect3/2560/homefiresburning.jpg)Dead End Thrills - Home Fires Burning

http://driber.net/os/tr9/Renders/Bow-and-Arrow.jpg (http://driber.net/os/tr9/Renders/Bow-and-Arrow.jpg)Bow and Arrow (internal art team at Crystal Dynamics)

http://barbarella.deadendthrills.com/imagestore/masseffect2/2560/thelongwalk.jpg (http://barbarella.deadendthrills.com/imagestore/masseffect2/2560/thelongwalk.jpg)Dead End Thrills - The Long Walk

[rasmusvn]

I don't know if I'd want this first one as a print. I just found it "funny" how much it resembled a piece by Syd Mead, not that there's anything wrong with that.

http://s.cghub.com/files/Image/218001-219000/218728/758_max.jpg (http://cghub.com/images/view/218728/)Briam Sum - The Presidium

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18k5f0ir76o3qjpg/original.jpgSyd Mead

http://s.cghub.com/files/Image/218001-219000/218729/760_max.jpg (http://cghub.com/images/view/218729/)Brian Sum - The Citadel Flux

http://s.cghub.com/files/Image/218001-219000/218724/316_max.jpg (http://cghub.com/images/view/218724/)Brian Sum - Reaper invasion - London

Better than the "Mako" lithograph in my opinion.

http://s.cghub.com/files/Image/483001-484000/483915/848_max.jpg (http://cghub.com/images/view/483915/)Alex Figini - Citadel Wards Slums

http://s.cghub.com/files/Image/483001-484000/483909/874_max.jpg (http://cghub.com/images/view/483909/)Alex Figini - Citadel Casino

[LowlyAssassin]

I think Mullins and boleill do excellent concepts and I think they are contracted in part to ubi as I look through there work and most of it is for them and I love all of it

[rasmusvn]

I guess we all want to see this as a print at some point.

And considering how the Bungie store had the concept art by Jaime Jones, I guess there's a chance of that.

http://s.cghub.com/files/Image/439001-440000/439673/691_max.jpg (http://cghub.com/images/view/439673/)Jesse van Dijk - Destiny Citadel

[nipperkipper]

This isnt concept art but i would love to have seen this in the form of a scroll, in general i would like to see more art from the Zelda series

http://www.gameinformer.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/610x0/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-00-00-06/5153.zelda25.jpg

[rasmusvn]

That piece would be awesome in a large format, and I don't even play Zelda.

http://s.cghub.com/files/Image/503001-504000/503145/471_max.jpg (http://cghub.com/images/view/503145/)Marek Okon

He also did this fanart of Elizabeth. It's not official, but does that really matter when it's this good. I guess it's based on the idea that Elizabeth can no longer exist due to killing Booker etc.

http://s.cghub.com/files/Image/484001-485000/484407/172_max.jpg (http://cghub.com/images/view/484407/)Marek Okon - Undone

[bbki]

These two up for auction about a week ago.
Went for pretty good price
Both were signed by Darrell Gallagher, Noah Hughes and Rhianna Pratchett.
Tomb Raider 'Crossroads' went for whopping 510 GBP (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/310652495779)
Tomb Raider ?Tourniquet? went for 392 GBP (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/140957011131)

Wonder who's win it.
Tourniquet
http://cdn.leviathyn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Print-2-555x416.jpg
Crossroads
http://cdn.leviathyn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Print-1-555x416.jpg

For me, I'm more interesting in Courage edition that put up at the same time.

[vhal_x]

Both of those TR prints are stunning. Wish I was rich, so I could've gotten them xx

[Fox]

...I want to know. Why are we getting low quality images/art. I guess this is more directed at BioWare Treeshouse. What happened to the IN GAME art? Or this amazing 3rd? party artist art?