Digital Art Types

  Digital Art types

  

Concept art

 Conept art is used to develop characters for a game, environments and items. The reason concept
 art is used is it saves money, by planning and designing it first before it is turned into a final product.
The core purpose of concept art, is to create  visualisations before the production process starts.
  


Assasins creed concept art for weapons

   These examples show some concept art from the Assassins Creed series, displaying the fundamental elements of the item - its texture, colour, shape and purpose.
Concept art can also be used for other purposes - such as marketing, and print media art.



Assasins creed concept art

  

  

Background art

  Backgroung art places images into the background of games to add realism, such as mountains, trees, and the sky. Using background art uses less polygons, by lowering the polygon count it creates available polygons for other uses in the game, such as character development or building detail.
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   Background images are usually objects and images that are found in the distance, such as -                 Moutains, trees, water etc..that the player doesnt need to interact with so they can just remain in the background, often these images are repeated.




Assasins Creed - background art

   
These two images show background art being used.
2D images are placed behind the 3D interactable objects in the foreground, creating the illusion of a bigger environment.

  



Skyrim gameplay - example of background art

Texture art

   2D image that is inserted on to a 3D shape, to add colour information and texture to give the desired
   effect. Often textures are used to add a certain amount of realism to a game, by using textures available in the real world, they can be replicated within the game world.



Stone floor texture

   

Assassins creed Image of builing

Stone wall to show texture

These two images show how a texture may have been used to create a building within a game that consists of the same type of textures. Capturing details and shadows from real life.



Pixel art

  Pixel art is a form of low resolution digital art created by Rastergraphics, pixel art is usually found in older computer games, or games wanting to create a retro atmosphere.
Pixel art is preferably stored in a file format utilizing lossless data compression, GIF and PNG are file formats most commonly used for storing pixel art. It uses a low amount of memory, and low resolution, therefore it is popular when creating a game for a device that requires skillful use of space and memory.

Zenonia - Android mobile phone game

Pixel Mario

 

  

 

The two images above show how pixel art has developed, but is still used. The pixel mario is an old game, he looks very simple, with virtually no detail, whereas the game developed for android mobile phones 'Zenonia' is still using pixels, but to a higher quality degree.

Interface art:

   Interface art is usually a 2D image layed over the game, to provide information for the player.
   It is also normally used for any menus or maps in the game.



Assassins Creed User Interface

Assassins Creed Weapons HUD
 

Assassins Creed main menu

        The interface art is often designed to replicate the game as much as possible, for example in Assassins Creed, the HUD is futuristic, this reflects the storyline - The animus is creating a virtual world in which we are playing.

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Print media art

Anything related to the game, that has been printed, such as game art, manuals, box art and walkthroughs. Print media art is usually use for advertising, marketing and promoting the game. Manuals and instructions are also included in print media art, this provides the player with the information needed to play the game.

 

 

Assassins Creed Game art for advertising

Assassins Creed box art

These images show the print media art for assassins creed. They are visually pleasing, which attracts people to play the game. They also provide a lot of information about the game with just looking at the image. This is important, as it is a point of sale for the product, and has to sell the game.