BORDERLANDS 2 ART MEGA THREAD!!!! [OMG IMAGE HEAVY]

Bbox85 · Nov 2012

Hey everyone!! The Gearbox Art Team has prepared some images of some of the art that went into Borderlands 2. Having worked with this team for 2 years now, I have to say that they are nothing short of AMAZING!!!! ENJOY!!

Some of us don't have a Polycount name so I'll be posting their art work for them.

jett12 · Nov 2012

JBarnett · Nov 2012

Bbox85 · Nov 2012

Art by Brent Hollon:

Desculptor · Nov 2012

My BL2 stuff

Drywall · Nov 2012

Hey Polycount! I made some of the enemies and NPCs for Borderlands, along with a bunch of smaller props! I'm really excited to show my work off. Though I am only showin' the sculpts off for the characters, I also modeled and textured these assets as well.

Dr. Kalashnikov · Nov 2012

Chemical Alia · Nov 2012

Here's some of my stuff too!

It's called a Southpaw pump because I had to make it with my left hand v:

RoidRage · Nov 2012

Reserved for the stuff and things. For real.

penrod · Nov 2012

JBarnett · Nov 2012

Bbox85 · Nov 2012

Art by Chris Neeley:

damiank · Nov 2012

Bbox85 · Nov 2012

Art by Robert Santiago:

jmchristopher · Nov 2012

Bbox85 · Nov 2012

Art by Jason Neal:

Bbox85 · Nov 2012

Tris Baybayan:

Snefer · Nov 2012

argh, god damnit! So much good stuff here. Really amazing artwork, oozes style : D

raul · Nov 2012

Here is some of the stuff i did for borderlands 2

dirtyhairy · Nov 2012

hey guys, here is the stuff i did on bl2. I should mention the concept artists here as well - kevin duc (guns) lorin wood (xploader, turret)

xploader

bandit assault rifle

(reworked gun)

torgue pistol

vladof AR

maliwan smg

turret

damiank · Nov 2012

dirtyhairy · Nov 2012

alien barrels

randos

Sojiira · Nov 2012

mLink · Nov 2012

Bbox85 · Nov 2012

Art by Adam May:

Bbox85 · Nov 2012

whoops double post

kodde · Nov 2012

Daaaaaymn!

Thanks for sharing. Lots of cool stuff.

agentfx · Nov 2012

amazing work! Insane amount of detail.

Oniram · Nov 2012

AMAZING! EVERY LAST BIT OF IT!

Teessider · Nov 2012

oh wow all this is amazing!

so inspiring

BARDLER · Nov 2012

Well this is spectacular. I love the texturing style.

Nerf Bat Ninja · Nov 2012

Image heavy, even with the OMG, is a huuuge understatement. My mouse wheel finger was starting to get tuckered out!

Amazing work, really really inspiring stuff. Question: The black line / inky style, I'm assuming a lot of that is done by hand, but do you go about getting a base via a convex edge type map out of Crazy Bump or something? And how much of it is the shader? I'd love to hear more about the whole texturing process in general. It's such a hard style to do well.

Autocon · Nov 2012

Fantastic work everyone. Love all the HP and Texture work!

TrampledUnderFoot · Nov 2012

So cool! Lovely art dudes!

elementrix · Nov 2012

Awesome!, thanks for sharing =D HP's look so good

BradMyers82 · Nov 2012

This is great! thanks for sharing!

JacqueChoi · Nov 2012

SOO cool!!

Tiny Tina, and Clap Trap are two of my favorite characters ever in a game.

Great job! Oozes so much style.

Bbox85 · Nov 2012

Nerf Bat Ninja - The only thing that's derived from a shader is the black outline around all objects in the game. As far as inking goes, that's all done by hand. Sometimes for organic stuff we'll run a glow edges on our normal map, invert, desaturate, then adjust brightness/contrast to get a base. But by the time we're done inking, all of that is usually gone. It just marks the areas that should probably get some inks. As far as the inking goes, there aren't really any shortcuts for this texture style. We all have carpal tunnel, lol!

Yeah, this thread got pretty damn heavy... I hope we didn't break it...