Concept Art in Video gamesConcept art overviewConcept art in video games is used to give the designers a base on which to base their work on to be created into the game world.

Concept artists are required to be able to draw basic landscapes, characters and a range of different objects and weapons.

Concept art is a job of which exists in many different types of media such as Film, Animation and Games, but is also used in large corporate businesses such as phone and car companies.

The purpose of Concept ArtConcept art is the link in the chain when it comes to video game design, as the story writers create the base idea of the game and all of its assets, give the ideas to the concept artists to give the idea life, and then the art is passed on to the 3D/2D modellers who of which will create the assets to then go straight into the game world.

This is the structure in a standard game industry but some industries may want to mix it up and have the concept artists work using 3D software instead of standard drawing of which will give then the role of a 3D modeller as well.

Character Concept artConcept art comes in many forms one of which is character design. The role of a character artist is to use the base story idea to create a basic image of the character they have been given to create, an example could be a hero of which plays the main protagonist in the game, the concept artist will be given certain aspects of the character such as height, width, facial features and clothing of which the character artist will create.

Prop/Object/item Concept artSpecific concept artists will create the base image for the many floras, props and inanimate objects of which are used for just simple aesthetics to make the game look good and polished. Items such as plants, trees, food and vehicles are just basic examples of props in the game world of which concept artists create.

Scenery Concept artScenery concept art is a collaboration of both prop/Object/item concept art and Character concept art with the added feature of a landscape or area of which to set the scene of the artwork. Scenery concept art is normally used to showcase the game for public viewing and is the ‘concept art’ which normally comes with collectors editions of the game due to the artwork’s colour and fidelity.