level 3 Games design Artistic styles

 level 3 in Games Design

Unit 78 Digital Graphics for Computer Games

artistic styles in Video Games  

In this blog i am going to be explaining and analysing the different Artistic styles in video games and will be saying what they are and  why they are needed for the certain game.

1) Photo -Realism  

      

Photo realism is a form of art style that its purpose is to be a image/picture that is computer generated but is as real as a real life picture so it is made to make the user feel like he/she is playing in real life so they feel like they are there. in this picture here it is one of the main characters in the game GTA V. as you can see in the pictures the designers have used photo-realism by making the game as realistic as possible. the setting is in Los Angeles and you can tell that it is as it looks very realistic.

2) Exaggeration 

Exaggeration is a art style that in games when designers have tried to do the complete opposite of realism and have tried to well exaggerate certain features like eyes, lips, cheeks, hair and other features that are noticeable. In this game of Naruto which as you can see in the top left hand corner of the screen they have really exaggerated his face like the cheek bones and the eyes have been enlarged. This is a very creative art style and a lot of people play it  because of the pretty colours and the cool animations and they do not really expect realistic game play as anime games are more imaginary.

3)  Abstraction 

Abstraction in gaming arts style can be also described as geometry as in 3D shapes and other shapes like squares  and triangles and uses these shapes to make a creative and imaginative vibe for the game. in this image of the right it shows the classic game of Tetris which is one of many prime examples of abstraction. all this game uses is just simple shapes and the objective of the game is to fill the gaps with the correct shapes and try and to make lines with them to earn points. this gives the player the feel of a challenge and very colourful and should give the player a light mood.

Pixel Art 

The term pixel art is kind of in the name, it is basically games that use pixels (squares) to illustrate their imagination into the form of a game. mostly pixel art games are usually platformers as they are the most simple games to make but there have been FPS (First Person Shooter) that have been made in the art style of pixel art. in this image on the right it shows a game called fist of Awesome Texan who has been attacked by deers and bears and you only use your bare hands. the feel o it makes you feel so many and it is very creative on how they have finished