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Is this Primordus?
certainly looks like him. The GW1 wiki has a picture of him you can reference. http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Primordus
-mredus.deviantart.com-
It is not Primordus. And I removed it from the GW2W Primordus page and tagged it for deletion because it is Kekai’s freelance work.
A link to Kekai Kotaki’s main website’s freelance gallery: http://www.kekaiart.com/freelance.html
A different link to his Guild Wars 2 work on the same site: http://www.kekaiart.com/guild-wars-2.html
That image you refer to is in the freelance gallery, not the GW2 gallery.
It is an awesome artpiece, but this is the only fire dragon concept art by Kekai that is actually for GW2 (and note before going about replacing the current concept art piece on GW2W: it is an old concept art from ’07 as one of the earliest iterations for what an Elder Dragon would look like – it did not make the cut – like all other non-Shatterer non-final-Zhaitan dragon concept art pieces Kekai did).
Kekai has done a lot of freelance or even personal artwork that very closely resembles his design styles for GW2 while he worked at ArenaNet – no doubt his style for one influenced the other greatly. This has led to a lot of his non-GW-related works such as Stormlord or Demon Slayer being mistaken for GW concept art (those two specifically often thought to be Kralkatorrik and Balthazar versus Menzies respectively – but those two specifically are in his personal work gallery, the names having come from his profile at cghub).
Dear ANet writers,
Stop treating GW2 as a single story. Each Season and expansion should be their own story.
Stop treating GW2 as a single story. Each Season and expansion should be their own story.
(edited by Konig Des Todes.2086)
Watching Kekais galleries i can imagine that guild wars leaved the same mark on him that he has left on guild wars
That particular image is from a Facebook game called Castle Age. So are a lot of the other images in the freelance gallery. Definitely nothing to do with Guild Wars.
Facebook games have a tendency to take work of others. I’ve seen stuff from GW1 (such as the main EotN art cover of Jora and a bear form norn, or the skill icons) obviously taken and used as part of such games – as well as non-profit games in small-time game-making-hobby communities.
So that doesn’t really mean much.
Dear ANet writers,
Stop treating GW2 as a single story. Each Season and expansion should be their own story.
Stop treating GW2 as a single story. Each Season and expansion should be their own story.