What game artist do you like?

[Ico]

From concept art to full promotional pieces, who makes your favorite artworks from videogames? lets celebrate and share some art!

Here are some of mine!

Spoiler: Akihiko Yoshida

Spoiler: Shigenori Soejima

Spoiler: Seita Inoe

Spoiler: Mirror's Edge

Spoiler: FFXVI

 

[Muddasar]

Great choices.

My favourite is Yoji Shinkawa the Metal Gear Solid artist.

 

[JAHGamer]

Great thread.... FF16 doesn't get enough appreciation, and some of the key art for it are amazing. But my favorite is the king, Tetsuya Nomura.

There'll never be a such thing as too many belts.

 

[Kokoloko]

Yoji Shinkawa - MGS artist



Yoshitaka Amano - Final Fantasy


Ayami Kojima - CastleVania



Bengus - Street Fighter, VS games

 

[Muddasar]

Oh wow didn’t know Akihiko Yoshida was the artist for Vagrant Story too.

 

[Ico]

Great thread.... FF16 doesn't get enough appreciation, and some of the key art for it are amazing. But my favorite is the king, Tetsuya Nomura.

There'll never be a such thing as too many belts.

Nomura is amazing, I love his art, specially this one he made when Cloud went to Smash Bros

 

[JAHGamer]

Kim Hyung Tae, lead Stellar Blade dev and ShiftUp CEO and founder. Amazing artist

 

[laynelane]

Kazuma Kaneko.

He did a lot of the character and demon designs for Atlus games (the SMT ones are what I like the most).

He also designed Dante and Vergil's devil forms in DMC3.

 

[2spooky5me]

All of the artists you guys named are top-tier, NO DOUBTS! A lot of unsung heroes (both Male and Female) at Capcom, Squaresoft, Enix, etc. during the early 90s, too.
But hands down, my favourite artist is tied between: Yoshitaka Amano + Akihiko Yoshida. Second/third place would be: Yoji Shinkawa.

If you guys have time, there are a lot industry folks at "ArtStation".
They have INCREDIBLE content there. Again, a lot of unsung Heroes (not just from Japan, too).


Edit: This art-piece lives rent-free in my mind all the time, lol. It's not fancy or anything, but I love it.

 

[2spooky5me]

As for Western artists (in no particular order. No favourites, just mentioning):
Rob Cunningham (Sierra - Homeworld series)
Peter Chan (LucasArts - Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle & Grim Fandango)
Sam Dider (Blizzard - Starcraft, Diablo & Warcraft)
Leonard Boyarsky (Black Isle Studios - Fallout 1 and Fallout 2)
Johannes Söderqvist (EA - Mirror's Edge)
Dylan Cuthbert (QGames - The Tomorrow Children. Personally, I think he is a pompous A-hole, but he does design well).

I am definitely missing a lot - my memory is blanking now.

 

[Ico]

Some nice concept art from Astro by Darren Douglas

 

[Ico]

i always liked Kuvshinov Ilya art, it saddens that took me some time to know that they made art for this Anno Mutationem game, i'm sharing some cool pieces that they also made for other stuff like twewy and cyberpunk edgerunners

 

[RE4-City]

Shinkiro made some badass art for the Resident Evil games in the 2000s
RE4 PS2 cover:


Resident Evil: Deadly Silence:

 

[Johnic]

Shinkawa and his Metal Gear art is great.

My favorite video game art is made by him. Just has a special charm to his drawings.

 

[Gods&Monsters]

Bye Ico

Bye JAH

 

[Bryank75]

Great choices.

My favourite is Yoji Shinkawa the Metal Gear Solid artist.

He's incredible.

Yoji Shinkawa - MGS artist

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Yoshitaka Amano - Final Fantasy
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Ayami Kojima - CastleVania
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Bengus - Street Fighter, VS games
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Fantastic stuff

I also like the artist that used to be at Santa Monica Studio... I think he was Brazilian.