Game art comes to life when animators and VFX artists combine their skills. In online role-playing game Guild Wars 2, where dragons thunder across the skies and arcane sigils shimmer beneath battle-scarred boots, the magic doesn’t just lie in the fantasy – it’s in the craft.
Behind the painterly beauty and explosive spectacle of the game lies a marriage of animation and visual effects that transforms code into living, breathing art. In this series of features I've spoken to Guild Wars 2 art director Aaron Coberly about the game's defining style, and ArenaNet's Tami Foote who explained how the evocative environments are created.
