Heather Tierney
Art Creation
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Visual Style as an Informative Delivery Tool
Video game art styles are a factor that style they wanted in their games. Often
with each new game release. The more is necessary, but sometimes that isn’t
is constantly changing and transforming
advanced technology has become, the
more that art itself has changed. Video
quite enough.
games are a great example of this, as So how can different art styles be shown
sets them apart from the masses. These both comprehend and follow? By creating
many create their own unique artwork that
art styles come in all kinds of different
forms, each one catered to the look and
feel of the entire game.
As an Art Lead on my student game
projects, it was very difficult for me to
explain these different art styles to other
non-artists. And it was even harder for
non-artists to explain what type of art
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using references from other video games
ART CREATION
to non-artists as a delivery tool they can
an artifact that can represent multiple
different art treatments. Not by changing
the artifact itself, but changing the
materials to establish different art styles.