Concept Art

Paul Richards has posted some of the totally amazing concept work he did for Darksiders on his site.

CGChannel have posted a nice video interview with concept artist Andy Park, who worked on God Of War 2+3 

The Durian team have posted a cool update () on the environment design for the open movie Sintel

Some very interesting new concept art has been released for the upcoming open movie Sintel.

The movie is being made as a catalyst to further improve and refine the tools within Blender 2.5 and increase its awareness to the 3d community.

Over at Beth Blog they have a developer diary with Olivier Leonardi the art director on Brink. In the diary he breaks down the specific details about the choices and influences for Brink's "exaggerated reality". It's a great read to show that great art is made with fore thought and purpose. Check out the diary here.

Over at Autodesk's AREA website they have a great interview with both David Guertin and Greg Baldwin who are concept artists at Insomniac Games (Ratchet and Clank, Resistance). 

In the interview David and Greg talk about their history, influences, getting into games and how they came together to create CreatureBox.com 

Check out the full interview here.

The highly successful Cartoon Network TV show Star Wars: The Clone Wars the 2nd season starts October 2, 2009 and with it an art book has been released covering material from both the movie and the TV show.