Blizzard releases official concept art gallery
by Alex Ziebart 
Apr 22nd 2010 at 9:10PM
For the last few years, I've been using the Sons of the Storm website and various Blizzard artists' DeviantArt galleries to get my Blizzard concept art fix. As of this evening, it seems Blizzard is taking a step toward consolidating all of this artwork into one public place.
Blizzard.comWe're pleased to announce the grand opening of our new Concept Art gallery, highlighting the myriad characters, environments, and other artwork we create during the development of our games. We plan to update this page regularly with a wide variety of never-before-seen pieces of art reaching all the way back to Blizzard's early days, so be sure to check back often!
Early days is right! There's artwork in the gallery that predates StarCraft and the early Warcraft games. Go check out Blizzard's concept art gallery, it will be time well spent.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Myf Apr 22nd 2010 9:15PM
No Gnomes = no interest.
Fox Van Allen Apr 23rd 2010 8:33AM
All the pictures of gnomes were eaten by the picture of the Shadowfiend.
Balmazer Apr 22nd 2010 9:16PM
http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/community/conceptart/#322
This is pure badassery.
chasem Apr 22nd 2010 9:30PM
I agree, would love to see it as a wallpaper
Valis Apr 22nd 2010 9:24PM
http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/community/conceptart/#210
Is also amazing....*sniff*
Why don't they make these into wallpapers on the main site?!
Balmazer Apr 22nd 2010 9:26PM
It would take too much time.
Jillemixie Apr 22nd 2010 9:37PM
I wish I had seen more stuff like this before.
Gems like http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/community/conceptart/#144 are what I love about concept art.
Squatstopee Apr 22nd 2010 9:39PM
That heavens devils pic is my new iPhone wallpaper.
ToyChristopher Apr 22nd 2010 10:00PM
This concept art is so cool! I wish the art we saw in game reflected it better.
RedGuard Apr 22nd 2010 10:01PM
Well... there goes my evening. =P
As an aspiring artist, I absolutely cannot get enough of this stuff.
Ayiano Apr 22nd 2010 10:05PM
Oooooooooooo!!!!!!
MusedMoose Apr 22nd 2010 10:16PM
Ooh, I'm going to lose a lot of time there, I can tell. I love concept art and the style that Blizzard works with is just plain awesome.
Vankay Apr 22nd 2010 10:49PM
http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/community/conceptart/?ip=warcraft#42
My god! I could make love to those Gilnean Buildings.
http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/community/conceptart/?ip=warcraft#0
An I hadn't seen that before, thank you so much for finding this! XD
Cameron Apr 22nd 2010 11:51PM
The Diablo III art is really great. I wish that kind of dense, layered architecture would make its way into WoW.
Raeenith Apr 23rd 2010 12:20AM
Very nice. I love concept art. Kind of interesting to see how much it differs from the game. It's a shame the game doesn't look exactly like the concept art, but at the same time it's cool to see what they were shooting for.
Edge Apr 23rd 2010 12:23AM
Sweet
http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/community/conceptart/#294
jishdefish Apr 23rd 2010 1:07AM
Awesome. I just finished looking at all the Wow-related ones. Most of it I've seen before, but it is still delicious eye-candy.
Jay Apr 23rd 2010 1:43AM
All I get is the message:
"The first batch of submissions will be added shortly. Stay tuned!"
:(
Is there a USA only lock on the site?
Shane Apr 23rd 2010 8:31AM
This is amazing! Cataclysm can't come sooner!
Honestly, who could wait for a Fire-breathing, lava-spitting turtle with a freaking Bio furnace in its shell?!
I tell ya, THAT will be epic.