More Concept Art

[stormcrow]

I think all the art has pretty okay for the moment. I don't think you can really say it is or isnt Fallouty for the moment.
The art tells us the game might be in post nuclear washington and its surrounding. Thats sorta Fallouty to me.
Once we get some idea on the plot and such, then the whole thing might be considered Fallouty or not.


On the other hand, I would have liked to have some sort of cameo/hint that would encourage us to believe they are making a fallout 3 that is worthy of continuing the series. Something like a Vault-Tec sign on one of these tubes.

 

[Vault 69er]

The art is really just upsetting. I know it isn't a part of the game, so why the hell should I look at it?

Alas, Bethesda's logic does not resemble our Earth logic.

 

[Butch]

Don't be so sad... this is my vision of the 4th artwork... that's really a post apocalyptic RPG=>

 

[Havok]

Let's keep in mind that Bethesda already admitted these "concept arts" have nothing to do with the game, the artist hasn't been contracted to do in-game work and doesn't actually know anything about Fallout.

As to why Bethesda is putting out what is essentially fake art, who knows.

Ditto. Hopefully next week we'll have a better understanding. I'm reserving judgement until then.

 

[Mani]

Still looks too clean, as if it was destroyed recently. It needs to be rustier and dustier, possibly some plantlife growing out of cracks or perhaps some dogs wandering around.

 

[DirtyDreamDesigner]

From now on I refuse to refer to this bad fan art as concept art because it isn't.

For a tutorial on how good concept art should look like check out the concept art for Star Wars: Force Unleashed. In only a few pictures the atmosphere is well established and you can get the sense of what kind of a game it will be.

 

[MrBumble]

From now on I refuse to refer to this bad fan art as concept art because it isn't.

The worst thing is : it's not even fan art

I was not familiar with the Fallout universe and had trouble "getting it" at first.

Don't get me wrong though. I do not have anything against the man. I even love some of his work but I think that it just sucks that Fallout 3 is introduced to the world and to its fanbase with images like this one that almost do not have anything to do with the actual game.

 

[Vault 69er]

Don't get me wrong though. I do not have anything against the man. I even love some of his work but I think that it just sucks that Fallout 3 is introduced to the world and to its fanbase with images like this one that almost do not have anything to do with the actual game.

I place the blame fully on Bethesda. If they really wanted to do it this way instead of, you know, releasing actual concept art they could've at least bothered to find someone who was an actual Fallout fan.

Todd Howard claims that he and his team are hardcore Fallout fans, yet they release "concept art" that isn't concept art at all, has nothing to do with Fallout 3 and is made by someone who has no idea what Fallout is about. This does not instill confidence in me.

It also makes me wonder just what this teaser is going to show.
I swear, if they show us some generic post-apocalyptic footage with Liam Neeson doing a voiceover or something lame like that I'll have to hurt someone.

 

[Silencer]

with Liam Neeson doing a voiceover

Oh god, please let it be Ron Perlman. I mean, Liam can get the second part of the intro, as is customary...

 

[SimpleMinded]

The picture is pretty much the same stuff we saw in the capital image so nothing really to comment on here.

It all makes me really curious why Bethesda wants fallout when they seem to be doing their own post apoc setting

 

[philowar]

Let's keep in mind that Bethesda already admitted these "concept arts" have nothing to do with the game, the artist hasn't been contracted to do in-game work and doesn't actually know anything about Fallout.

As to why Bethesda is putting out what is essentially fake art, who knows.

Yeah, I don't get it. The "concept art" explanation is fine if these were pictures sneaked out of the development offices, but these are the pictures the devs themselves have given the thumbs up to, which is why they are being used as artwork for the official site. Obviously, T.Howard or whoever is making these decisions have confidence in this artist's work, as in he feels it accurately portrays what they are working on, otherwise they would be using something else. This is why things aren't looking too grand. I would rather be looking at a smiling Pip Boy for 20 days then seeing this stuff. At least then I'd have more confidence that Beth was going to be bringing us the real deal.

 

[HawK-EyE]

Maybe they had a juicy contract with Craig Mullins, now they just want to use the artworks and claim that was not wasting money...

 

[10mmCurator]

really nice pic but I must agree not fallouty... Bah they don't know how to milk a cash cow properly.

 

[Jarno Mikkola]

that was not wasting money...

Or the pictures are/were part of a requested pictures for the intro movie slide show that begins with: War, war never changes...

And so these pictures were the once that didn't make it to the intro, but were taken by the BethSoft cause they had been done already(bought).

 

[Vault 69er]

that was not wasting money...

Or the pictures are/were part of a requested pictures for the intro movie slide show that begins with: War, war never changes...

And so these pictures were the once that didn't make it to the intro, but were taken by the BethSoft cause they had been done already(bought).

That makes little sense, as the intros of Fallout 1 and 2 were composed of stock footage and stuff specific to Fallout.
These pics are neither.

 

[Bernard Bumner]

It seems to me that people are a little confused about what concept art actually means, since it is a pretty broad term that can be taken to encompass any art that conveys final design elements, but may also be extended to very preliminary work that establishes mood, style, or atmosphere. Concept art doesn't necessarily imply any usage in the final product!

These pieces clearly have a link to Fallout 3, however it seems tenuous - they may simply be pieces for establishing mood or experimenting with style. We now know, thanks to the artist and devs, that they were early pieces that weren't intended to form part of the final art design. I'm sure it isn't uncommon practice to commision concept art which only serves as inspiration to the design team. I don't think anybody has claimed that these pieces are final art or design documents.

It would surely be unusual to release finished art before even a teaser trailer has emerged?

Patience, people....

 

[monsharen]

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debate killer..

 

[Bernard Bumner]

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debate killer..

Well, maybe....

But, I'm not sure that there was much debate taking place, so much as a lot of spleen-venting due to frustration arising from Bethesda's tease-campaign.

The thing is, people have been responding to this concept art with a number of fairly consistent gripes. One of them is that it isn't Fallout-ish: well , problem solved, because it doesn't seem that this art will necessarily have much to do with the final art design. Another common complaint is that this art isn't up scratch, okay I don't agree, but see above.

One of the biggest sources of ire seems to be that Bethesda should be showing us material from the game, or at least directly connected with the final product. But, they haven't even released their teaser trailer yet....

I might be being a bit dismissive, but that's the way I think, I'm afraid.

(It might be because I'm a scientist, because conjecture tends to wind us up. Maybe its because I'm piscean, althought I think astrology is a big load of bullshit. Could be that I'm just a bit of a smug asshole, but my mum says I'm a nice guy. Perhaps it was just something I needed to get off my chest, yet I wasn't that concerned about it.)

To me, the concept art is pretty good, but I'm not going to draw any strong conclusions from it. If people want to start theorizing about the connection between this art and Fallout 3, then they might be better off focusing on the source materials for these pictures, given that Craig Mullins suggested that Bethesda provided those.

 

[alec]

Meh.

This stuff would make sense in the intro slide show where Perlman goes 'War, war never changes'.

There it would work.

The colour schemes and compositions aren't really that good, though. For stand-alone pieces of art, I mean.

Better than I can do, of course, 'cause I don't care for realistic stuff, but still: not top of the class.

Five more days, right?

I'm curious what they'll come up with. I hope it's worth it.

 

[Autoduel76]

Well, I think this is my least favorite of the pieces so far. Not that it means much, as has been mentioned quite often already. The stripmall picture and the first one, of the wasteland, I like quite a bit, but the other 3 don't really do a whole lot for me.


I guess the aircraft carrier one wasn't bad either.

I get the feeling that Bethesda chose these images specifically because they don't indicate much about the game they are making. Next Tuesday will tell a lot and we should be getting fairly regular information from various places after that.

Hopefully they will be allowed to discuss it, after that, because many of the devs have been quite active on their message board.