Thursday 4 September 2014

video game artists

Video game artists and graphics designers:

Chris Metzen: artist and game designer for Blizzard entertainment.

Chris Metzen is known for his work on many of the MMO based games created by Blizzard entertainment e.g. World of Warcraft and Diablo. He also worked on free lance art creating a web comic series for a spinoff story for the popular series of movies and shows Transformers, he called it Transformers: Autocracy. 

Chris was also known for his voice acting in almost all of the video games created by Blizzard entertainment.

After voicing many characters in video games Chris turned his attention to the concept art side of the video gaming industry, this led to him creating his own scrap book containing his own original artwork based around the original game of diablo.
Later on Chris decided to work on his second web comic series, continuing his original spinoff from Transformers, he called it "Transformers Monstrocity".



Masahiro Ito: artist for the silent hill game franchise

Masahiro is known for his work in the silent hill game franchise doing concept art and detailed digital art, he is well known for this because the artwork has an eerie atmosphere to it and gives it a real horror feel to the game. Masahiro started his career on twitter after posting many fanart images of the popular silent hill game series.
Shortly after he was picked up by the game developers, and now works for them as a concept artist, this has given him a very healthy reputation in the video game concept art industry.