Guild Wars 2

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this is 1 of the most coolest painting/drawings i have ever seen…simply genius

Wow, true that. Let’s face it: Arenanet has a talent in finding talents. Art-wise this company was always beyond bliss, one of its best.

Loved the artwork too when I saw it, and I still do, it’s amazing as is all the other art for GW, but the fact that Teq doesn’t really look like that bugs me a bit. Felt the same for stuff like the Kessex Hills/Fields of Ruin artworks and stuff.

ProtoGunner.4953:

Wow, true that. Let’s face it: Arenanet has a talent in finding talents. Art-wise this company was always beyond bliss, one of its best.

amen.

Yeah, Anet always get 9+/10 for artwork/graphics in my book…no complaints there…

Yep, big fan of the concept stuff – and this is one of my favourites to date. Whilst I’d like to see a better correlation between these images and the in game art, there’s no doubt the in game art is also spectacular.

Good job guys!

Hi, my name is Teqzilla! Good art, but the artistic licence leaves something to be desired.

Allosauridae head? :P
Nice work though. I do wish however, as has been repeated on the forums, that they incorporate more of Kekai Kotaku’s art.
Can we haz this Bubbles champ nao!?

That’s looks like either…Tom Scholes http://crayonboxofdoom.blogspot.com/
or Jamie Jones, though I don’t think Jones nor Kekai Kotaki work directly for Arenanet anymore.

Kekai Kotaki definitely doesn’t. They named the legendary spear after him, because it was the last weapon he designed, I believe.

Not sure about Jamie Jones.

I agree, though. It’s currently my wallpaper.

It almost makes me want a Golem Jaeger.

Honestly, it’s very well done, but I have an issue with it. It looks nothing like Tequatl. It’s a giant T-Rex.

I think it’s very good, but a picture of a dinosaur……bleh

EDIT: Misread.

Laundry.5120:

That’s looks like either…Tom Scholes http://crayonboxofdoom.blogspot.com/
or Jamie Jones, though I don’t think Jones nor Kekai Kotaki work directly for Arenanet anymore.

Nor does Tom Scholes. Kotaki and Jones are working at Bungie on a game called Destiny.

This is Jia Ruan. Relatively new to Anet.

cghub
http://ruanjiajia.cghub.com/

personal art site
http://www.ruanjia.com/

Interview from before working at Anet
http://cgcookie.com/concept/2012/11/15/interview-ruan-jia/

Yeah the first thing I noticed was the awesome wallpaper image. very impressed

hedix.1986:

Allosauridae head? :P
Nice work though. I do wish however, as has been repeated on the forums, that they incorporate more of Kekai Kotaku’s art.
Can we haz this Bubbles champ nao!?

That link has some of the best GW2 art I’ve ever seen.

That image is the first image since the wallpapers that were made available before launch that I wanted to set as my desktop.

I was very, very disappointed to see that there wasn’t a 1600×900 version made available.
Seriously. Where are the high resolution widescreen wallpapers Anet? 16:9 is a very common resolution considering most computers have been sold with widescreen monitors for the last decade.

Shame. It’d look nice too. Could crop it myself, but then every time I look at it all I would think of is how disappointing it is to not have it as a supplied option in the first place.

ProtoGunner.4953:

Wow, true that. Let’s face it: Arenanet has a talent in finding talents. Art-wise this company was always beyond bliss, one of its best.

This for sure, very good artists there. I wish they were able to convert it into the game.

I was blown away when I saw that concept art, the whole look of Tequatl and the scale of the picture with the people rearing back in fear, it’s awesome.

StinVec.3621:

That image is the first image since the wallpapers that were made available before launch that I wanted to set as my desktop.

I was very, very disappointed to see that there wasn’t a 1600×900 version made available.
Seriously. Where are the high resolution widescreen wallpapers Anet? 16:9 is a very common resolution considering most computers have been sold with widescreen monitors for the last decade.

Shame. It’d look nice too. Could crop it myself, but then every time I look at it all I would think of is how disappointing it is to not have it as a supplied option in the first place.

Try to use that 1920×1080 wallpaper, it is 16:9 even in higher resolution.

Mt Terror.3284:

StinVec.3621:

That image is the first image since the wallpapers that were made available before launch that I wanted to set as my desktop.

I was very, very disappointed to see that there wasn’t a 1600×900 version made available.
Seriously. Where are the high resolution widescreen wallpapers Anet? 16:9 is a very common resolution considering most computers have been sold with widescreen monitors for the last decade.

Shame. It’d look nice too. Could crop it myself, but then every time I look at it all I would think of is how disappointing it is to not have it as a supplied option in the first place.

Try to use that 1920×1080 wallpaper, it is 16:9 even in higher resolution.

After seeing your post I was trying to figure out why I only saw a few choices for resolutions on the wallpaper section and not this 1920×1080 that you referred to.

I’ve now worked out the cause for my seeing so few resolution options. Due to the sizes being displayed as an overlay to the image of the wallpaper, this “design” was apparently conflicting with an extension in my browser and was causing only 6 of the available sizes to be listed. So to me I was only seeing 800×600, 1024×768, 1280×960, 1280×1024, 1600×1200, and 1280×720.

Thank you for mentioning that there was a high resolution available. I should have known something was wrong, but with even the search function still being busted, you never know. Their overlay mouse hover pop-up isn’t the best way for resolutions to be offered and I’m a bit surprised that they programmed the resolutions to get displayed like that instead of being listed underneath the image. Oh well.

Thanks again Mt Terror.