What happens when over 80 creators from the world’s top video game studios join forces to create the ultimate dark fantasy game? The answer is SUBSTRATA, a brilliant new art book collecting designs for the heroes, enemies, and landscapes of this hypothetical new game world…
SUBSTRATA is the brainchild of illustrator Paul Richards, who conceived of the project as a way to reunite his fellow artists from Vigil Games, makers of the Darksiders franchise. Together, they rallied a global community of artists and the result is a breathtaking tome, featuring a who’s-who of top tier talent from across the gaming industry. SUBSTRATA is a true passion-project, where artists were encouraged to forsake conventions, inhibitions, and technological limitations, to create something never seen before.
The artists who have lent their passion to SUBSTRATA have worked on some of the top-rated AAA games in the industry. Check out this amazing list of games which have featured artwork by SUBSTRATA contributors:
Allods Online – Assassins Creed IV – Darksiders I & II – DayZ – Destiny – Diablo 3 – Donkey Kong Country Returns: Tropical Freeze – Doom 4 – DotA 2 – EVE Online – Evolve – Firefall – Gears of War – Guild Wars 2 – Halo 4 – Hearthstone – Hunted – League of Legends – Left For Dead 2 – Overlord – Overlord 2 – Portal 2 – Rift – Runescape – Saints Row – SMITE – Star Citizen – Starcraft 2 – Uncharted 3 – Wildstar – World of Warcraft
SUBSTRATA: Open World Dark Fantasy by Paul Richards
240 pages, Colour.
Pdf - Digital quality
High resolution.
PDF with links author index.
SUBSTRATA is the brainchild of illustrator Paul Richards, who conceived of the project as a way to reunite his fellow artists from Vigil Games, makers of the Darksiders franchise. Together, they rallied a global community of artists and the result is a breathtaking tome, featuring a who’s-who of top tier talent from across the gaming industry. SUBSTRATA is a true passion-project, where artists were encouraged to forsake conventions, inhibitions, and technological limitations, to create something never seen before.
The artists who have lent their passion to SUBSTRATA have worked on some of the top-rated AAA games in the industry. Check out this amazing list of games which have featured artwork by SUBSTRATA contributors:
Allods Online – Assassins Creed IV – Darksiders I & II – DayZ – Destiny – Diablo 3 – Donkey Kong Country Returns: Tropical Freeze – Doom 4 – DotA 2 – EVE Online – Evolve – Firefall – Gears of War – Guild Wars 2 – Halo 4 – Hearthstone – Hunted – League of Legends – Left For Dead 2 – Overlord – Overlord 2 – Portal 2 – Rift – Runescape – Saints Row – SMITE – Star Citizen – Starcraft 2 – Uncharted 3 – Wildstar – World of Warcraft
SUBSTRATA: Open World Dark Fantasy by Paul Richards
240 pages, Colour.
Pdf - Digital quality
High resolution.
PDF with links author index.