I don’t know if I’ve ever truly mentioned this on Nice Artwork earlier than, it’s simply one thing we’ve to work with within the background and I haven’t needed to bore you with the small print, however you must know that online game artists are hardly ever, if ever, allowed to simply share their work each time and nevertheless they need.
Engaged on a online game, whether or not you’re a studio worker or freelancing or employed by an outsourcing firm, means normally signing away your inventive life. The stuff you make for the sport normally belongs to the individuals making the sport, and even when it’s performed, typically you’re not allowed to share all the pieces you probably did, or if you’re you should anticipate a sure period of time to cross.
It’s dumb, however then, no extra so than some other facet of online game growth that’s steeped in authorized bullshit. Anyway! Hopefully that solutions any questions you will have had during the last decade and alter as to why these options run weeks, months and typically even years after a giant sport is launched; the reply is actually because it took that lengthy for artists to be allowed to share their stuff publicly!
Which is a really long-winded means of claiming welcome to this gallery showcasing the unimaginable work that went into the creation of God of Warfare Ragnarök, a blockbuster that was lots of people’s sport of the yr for 2022. As regular for a function of this dimension—we ran one earlier this week!—it’s not everybody who labored in each space of the sport’s growth, nevertheless it’s a pleasant cross-section. Certainly this function is so massive, and showcases a lot stuff from so many proficient individuals, that I solely actually had the bandwidth to function illustration work (you’ll be able to see much more stuff at this artwork blast).
As regular, you’ll be able to try extra of every artist’s stuff within the hyperlinks discovered of their names under.