Guild Wars 2

So I probably missed it, or haven’t reached it in the story, but who is the guy on the Blood and Madness concept art?

He looks nothing like the Mad King or the Bloody Prince.

Might be early concept art for the Prince.

I saw him on a loading screen too.

I’m hoping that there’s another part of this coming next week. Like I said in a different thread, if those two giant avatars just stand there bickering for an entire month it’ll be very disappointing.

Yeah well, the splash art for Sparkfly is also supposed to show Tequatl, but it doesn’t really resemble it at all. They do this for some reason

The images they use for the backgrounds are concept art. Usually when you make concept art there are two kinds of art done (well, simplifying a LOT), one of the kind you use to pick how something will look in the finished product, and then used as a guide to make the real version. Usually things like these:

http://media.guildwars2guru.com/wordpress/wp-content/gallery/guild-wars-2-concept-art/gw2_dragon.jpg

The other kind is more artistic stand alone pieces. They don’t need to be accurate, heck, sometimes they don’t even resemble the finished product at all or might even look like they’ve been made for something else (or maybe using older versions), these are done mostly as a way to get the general feel of whatever is being represented (character, location, and so on) and do things like playing with colors, lighting and the like. These are the ones used on GW2 splash screens.

Some examples, the splash screen of hoelbrak in the background you can see contemporary looking buildings and even what looks like a construction crane, looking like a post apocaliptic setting… yet it captures the general feel and athmosphere they were looking for there.