Concept art

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Table of Contents

• Concept art or marketing art
• Functional concept art - Modular sidewalls & Wooden bridge
• Cultist prop
• Lectern
• Scarecrow
• Aetherial Obelisk

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A lot of what you see from companies as "concept art" is really marketing art. It may be a real concept but usually someone has put a bunch of extra time into polishing it up for public consumption. Sometimes the actual development concept art is done to that level of quality.

For development purposes it is generally unnecessary to do anything so elaborate and just one of the many reasons games cost so much to make. A lot of the best looking concept art doesn't even convey a lot of the essential information 3d modelers need to reliably create the asset as design needs it to be. [1]

What concept art the artists do have is just that, concept. Crate could very well decide not to make that specific monster design or asset. So they wait before posting many conceptual ideas, when they might not actually end up in game. [2]

The artists post concept art, if they have anything worth showing. They don't really have time to make fancy marketing-quality concept art. Crate doesn't even have a concept artist. [1]
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1. Concept Arts May 2010
2. Concept Arts May 2010

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If Crate's concept art isn't just a paint-over photo reference, then it usually looks like this. [1]
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1. Concept Arts May 2010

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• Artist reporting in! Sep 2011

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• Some Grim Dawn Concept Sep 2011

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• Some Grim Dawn Concept Oct 2011
• related to New enemy model - Harvestman

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• What doth approacheth?! Dec 2011
• related to The Grim Dawn Story - Prologue