Excited to see what the Artists are working on.

[Imoen]

So we have seen/heard a lot of what the Designers, Programmers, Scripters, Animators and some of what the Effects Artists are working on... What are the Modelers, Environment Artists, Texture Artists, Concept Artists up to? Getting excited to see what they been up to. (Obviously I don't know how their team is split up exactly.)

Kind of a useless thread but... it is general after all.

Hopefully not ALL optimization that's no fun. lol

[Holland]

I would love to see what concepts there might be for new areas and more concept art for gears for jobs would be really cool to see. Maybe concept art for fiends too ^^ please show us some !

[Imoen]

I would love to see what concepts there might be for new areas and more concept art for gears for jobs would be really cool to see. Maybe concept art for fiends too ^^ please show us some !

I would like to see that too!

zbrush sculpts would interest me too along with some shots of models, textures etc...

Wonder if any of the guys over there have posts on zbrush central... some of the stuff I saw in the making of was really cool wish the video was a little better quality.

[Seif]

This is what I've been wondering for the past 8 months as well.

As it is, it seems working as an artist on XIV is the easiest job in the entire world.

The BLM gear they showed looked amazing but that's all we've seen so far. The huts look so bland they hardly needed any concept art at all.

I really hope they've been working at making the landscapes more interesting and FF-like but only time will tell. XIII environments look amazing like all the other FF titles. I hope they hire some of those artists with an imagination because that's what XIV really needs. I thought by IX they proved that they can make medieval style in an original and inventive way? What about those artists? Hire Christian Lorenz Schauer as an art-director for the environment design again!

Even if I absolutely love Akihiko Yoshida's character designs I worry that he isn't capable of creating memorable environments the FF series is known for.

Vagrant Story, FF tactics, Ogre Battle and XII are great games but the look of the world is forgettable in 9 shades of brown.

XII is an exception because Kusanagi worked on the environments not Yoshida. All the games that have Kusanagi designed environments look amazing VII-XII why did they not commission environment design from Kusanagi for this game like they have done in the past?

Maybe they wanted to try new people but when they fail to produce quality up to par I can't but wonder why they don't use people who have proved they can do exceptional work?

[Laughlyn]

I agree, i wanna see more concept arts, Wallpapers bigger screenshots etc.

Like the recent artwork for the updated Company page here...
http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com.../gc01.html#gc5

Beautiful artwork, please let us have some high resolution wallpapers of such things for our PC's !

[Coombah]

I can't wait to see the new maps they are working on

[Seirra_Lanzce]

i demand more official Wallpapers! why there isn't there a wallpaper of this picture!

http://images.wikia.com/finalfantasy...FantasyXIV.jpg

[Holland]

i demand more official Wallpapers! why there isn't there a wallpaper of this picture!

http://images.wikia.com/finalfantasy...FantasyXIV.jpg

I purchase that poster from SE, it looks awesome, and I guess, because of how the characters are set in the picture, adjusting it to "x" ratio would cause it to look weird (I mean adjusting the position of some of them to fit them all in a 16:10 or 16:9 ratio would not have the same effect). It looks awesome because how they are positioned in the picture imo.

And again, more concept art of what ever they have planned would be awesome and spark interest in anyone checking the game. Even if its not implemented at all in the end, it would give us an idea where this is going ;p

Concept art of end game areas, concept art of new cities/towns/hamlets, concept of new armour, concept of new fiends, etc. Anything actually. This is not a demand, but a request ^^

[Imoen]

i demand more official Wallpapers! why there isn't there a wallpaper of this picture!

http://images.wikia.com/finalfantasy...FantasyXIV.jpg

Here you go lol... I just edited it... 1920x1080 1280x720 1680x1050

Photoshop for the win.

Hopefully you see it... lol.. post will prob get buried

[Holland]

Here you go lol... I just edited it... 1920x1080 1280x720 1680x1050

Photoshop for the win.

Hopefully you see it... lol.. post will prob get buried

hehe thanks for that, saved pic*

off topic: Now... if by the will of the twelve you happen to come across this thread again and have the time, can you make a version without the FFXIV logo? xD

Im prepared to turn this into a FFXIV wally thread if necessary D: