Mar 4, 2022 · Although realism is very impressive, games from FromSoftware such as Elden Ring illustrate that good visuals can also come from implementing a strong art direction, even if it does not look...

Feb 22, 2022 · As well as taking FromSoftware’s art direction out of decaying medieval structures and into a more autumnal Sengoku-era Japan – populated with figures of folkloric monsters and Buddhist myth – Sekiro slimmed down the role-playing elements the …

Oct 12, 2022 · Contrast is one of the most powerful tools in design. It creates a point of interest, it shocks and makes the design so unique. And it appears to all kind of contrast, from the most obvious ones like light and dark, big and small to more abstract themes like holy and the unholy or strong and weak.

It's always been a fact that art direction is more important than visual fidelity. There's a reason you can go back to games like Sly Cooper or Zelda Wind Waker and the games are still appealing. What you do with your tools is what makes all the difference.

Hidetaka Miyazaki (Japanese: 宮崎 英高, Hepburn: Miyazaki Hidetaka, born September 19, 1974) is a Japanese video game director, designer, writer, and president of the game developer FromSoftware. He joined the company in 2004 and was a designer for the Armored Core series before receiving wider recognition for creating the Dark Souls series.

Mar 22, 2022 · Easy to open but [very] difficult to close; get all of them, and reserve a special position on your bookshelf; flip through the pages and even you will enter into the legend of FromSoftware tales!

May 21, 2020 · Though, if you're looking for the artist for a specific monster/character/whatever, then that's much harder to find out. Like, you'd have to either ask From directly, or analyze art styles from various games, and cross-reference attributed artists listed in …

Aug 31, 2020 · FromSoft has better art direction than 95% of studios. Their worlds always manage to be completely stunning with atmosphere that just sucks you in, despite the fact that on a technical level they're much weaker than most AAA games

Whether it's the foggy, gothic streets of Yharnam in Bloodborne or the deep, underground catacombs of the King's Field series, FromSoftware has consistently relied on amazing art direction,...

Jan 18, 2021 · Voted on by our editors and staff, here are the games with the best art direction of 2020 that provided some of the most screenshot-worthy moments of the year.