GUILD WARS 2 ART (98pics & growing) ART BOOK- OUT NOW! update 7/27 p.11

**Ragnar X** · August 20th, 2009

GUILD WARS 2 ART BOOK FOR SALE

North America buy here:
http://www.pennyarcademerch.com/anp09001100.html

Europe buy here:
http://eu.plaync.com/eu/store/item/g..._guild_wars_2/

NEW high res animated-art LORE/RACE trailers at (1080 available for download)
www.GUILDWARS2.com

LATEST UPDATE:
Jul 27th -Ragnar X, Daniel Dociu aka TINFOIL: CONCEPT SEMINAR SEATTLE Aug4-6! www.FuturePoly.com
-May 25th -jasonj05, in-engine character model shots
-May 4th -ABCart, in-engine character model shots
-Dec 30th-Xia, armor concepts
-Dec 30th-Stokes, CONCEPT SEMINAR SEATTLE Jan23rd! www.FuturePoly.com
-Dec 4th-Prostate Sunrise, animatic illustrations
-Dec 4th-Flaptraps, Guild Wars playable races illustrations
-Nov 10th- Prostate Sunrise, Spectrum Silver/Into the Pixel illustration and concepts
-Oct 27th- Tinfoil, Spectrum Gold/Into the Pixel/Master award Expose
-Oct 16th- Ragnar X, concept illustrations
-Oct 13th- Tinfoil, concept illustrations
-Sep 23rd- Ragnar X, art book release photos
-Sep 4th- Prostate Sunrise, concept illustrations
-Aug 28th- M.C. Barrett, sketches and environment concepts
-Aug 28th- Tinfoil, Imagine FX covers/concepts
-Aug 28th- Ragnar X, art book cover
-Aug 28th- Cincinimo, concept illustrations
-Aug 28th- Flaptraps, marketing illustrations
-Aug 28th- Stokes, prop concept
-Aug 28th- Tinfoil, concept art
-Aug 27th- Prostate Sunrise, concepts and illos
-Aug 25th- Tinfoil, environment concepts
-Aug 24th- Stokes, in game model screens
-Aug 20th- Prostate Sunrise, character illustrations
-Aug 20th- Ragnar X, concept trailer

TRAILER CREDITS:
This is a HUGE game and we've got 170+ people from code to art to business to Lisa at the front desk... it takes a whole team of talented, hardworking people to make a game like this happen! but as far as credits for the trailer go:

directed/storyboard etc-
Horia Dociu aka Ragnar X

EYE POPPING ILLUSTRATIONS!!!!!!!-
Kekai Kotaki aka Prostate Sunrise

ART DIRECTOR/additional ILLUSTRATION/ "Dragon 2" Logo-
Daniel Dociu aka Tinfoil

Motion Graphic Animation/Effects-
Matthew Oswald

Additional (quick shot) illustrations, in game footage and more...
MC BARRET, Flaptraps, Cicinimo, and lots of in-game stuff by Levi Hopkins, Jason Stokes and the GW2 environment team!! the in-game stuff looks as good as the concept art, and that is not easy to do. We've got and AWESOME team of artists and programmers making this happen.

Here's our threads/concepts from previous Guild Wars titles:
Guild Wars Eye of the North
Guild Wars Nightfall
Guild Wars Factions
Guild Wars

Stay tuned and we'll keep posting as soon as stuff is released.

**pokepetter** · August 20th, 2009

OMG, I've waited so long for this

*can't sit still*

My favorite part is where the camera goes down under the water and the music changes. But seriously this is some of the crazy best stuff I've ever seen. I also love all that nice concept art at the end.

**Matsign** · August 20th, 2009

That's one hell of a trailer and no doubts your game is gonna be top notch. Loved every second of it! Thanks for dropping by.

**smokenmirrors** · August 20th, 2009

very nice setup, love the animated artwork!

**Jason Snair** · August 20th, 2009

Insane!

That cinematic looks amazing. Really inspiring stuff man.

I'm really curious, how do you animate your illustrations (like in the beginning of the trailer)? What software do you use. I'd love to try that out. (Edit: Not that I think it's just that easy or anything. You guys are amazing.)

Oh. and I really want play the game now too.

**Ragnar X** · August 20th, 2009

This is a HUGE game and we've got 170+ people from code to art to business to Lisa at the front desk... it takes a whole team of talented, hardworking people to make a game like this happen! but as far as credits for the trailer go:

directed/storyboardetc-
Horia Dociu aka Ragnar X

EYE POPPING ILLUSTRATIONS!!!!!!!-
Kekai Kotaki aka Prostate Sunrise

ART DIRECTOR/additional ILLUSTRATION/ dragon 2 Logo-
Daniel Dociu aka Tinfoil

Motion Graphic Animation/Effects-
Matthew Oswald

Additional (quick shot) illustrations, in game footage and more...
MC BARRET, Flaptraps, Cincinnimo, and lots of in-game stuff by Levi Hopkins, Jason Stokes and the GW2 environment team!! the in-game stuff looks as good as the concept art, and that is not easy to do. We've got and AWESOME team of artists and programmers making this happen.

Stay tuned and we'll have more surprises to show before the game is out!!

**daarken** · August 20th, 2009

omg, kekai's illustrations are freaking awesome...time to go hide in the corner.

**TheGnoll** · August 20th, 2009

holy shit
that was one awesome trailer.

yes, you have been missed.
i have a feeling this is going to be an epic thread, can't wait to see more!

**ceddo** · August 20th, 2009

Hot DAMN. This is one of the best trailers I've ever seen. I absolutely love the illustration animations, very interesting style. Looking forward to this game

**Jason Snair** · August 20th, 2009

Thanks Ragnar

I hope I didn't imply that I thought you alone were to be credited for this massage project. I know that only a huge team would be able to pull it off and.. make it look as incredible as it does.

I guess I just saw gorgeous(moving) pictures and was like.."ooh...how'd do that?" and then typed that out without thinking much anything else.

j.

**Neonoir** · August 20th, 2009

Kekai's art is awesome

**egerie** · August 20th, 2009

Now that's what I call a game trailer

Thank you !

**Mr.Delicious** · August 20th, 2009

ooh shiit that was awesome! I can't wait to see the next art dump from you guys D:

**artiphats** · August 20th, 2009

Guild Wars remains one of my favorite games of all time, I'm there for 2!!!!

**Dan Milligan** · August 20th, 2009

Horia!!!

That is simply jaw dropping!!!!

you guys are the best.

dan

**Darktwin** · August 20th, 2009

Wow, simply wow, thanks for sharing!! Back to work

**romance** · August 20th, 2009

Amazing... thanks for sharing.

**Mandryk** · August 20th, 2009

H O L Y S H I T !

Stunning.

**rjparamonte** · August 20th, 2009

... We're not worthy! We're not worthy!

**Kan Muftić** · August 20th, 2009

I was privileged to see some of the stuff while working at NCsoft and I can tell that, once you guys publish the paintings, everyone will have to change their pants.

**prostate sunrise** · August 20th, 2009

Thanks a bunch guys, so happy you enjoy it! Here's one of the concept illustrations I did for the trailer. We'll try and update when we can.

Thank you all for your kind replies.

Kekai

**Pretty_Angel** · August 20th, 2009

I love you so much, guys! Can't wait for the game!

**prostate sunrise** · August 20th, 2009

Some more shots.

**~Faust~** · August 20th, 2009

Wow that is so nice!

**Sirsketchalot** · August 20th, 2009

Wow I'm so excited! It's great to hear from you guys again! The art was amazing in Guild Wars (from the world to the stained glass windows in Ascalon), and I'm happy to see it's back again. The armor and clothing design has always blown me away too. Hopefully more customization will be an option in the new one. I'm most excited about meshing persistence with instance.

That trailer was so worth it that I went back through it and paused every other second at the end. The concept art there is just splendid. Keep updating us!