Concept Art has been in use since the 1930’s by the animation industry who was using drawning and painted images which shown the look, feel, design, colors, etc…of the animated movie to be made.The purpuse of this is a visual image of a design, idea, and/or mood for use in films, before it is put into the final product.This is the starting idea of what is needed before being made into a film production. Before characters, worlds, or items are created, images are made to show what these things should look like, often based on a writers description or sketches.Concept Art is the illustrated visualization of ideas. This is now used more with artists working in the automobile and video games industries, being better known as “visual development” by the games industry.
Visual development artists create from imagination and at times photo reference, in order to design new characters, new worlds, landscapes, creatures, vehicles, or items which have never before existed. This is how some objects, such as in the the picture of a caven complex used in the game “Guild Wars”, which was made into a 3D landscape.
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