A little bit of concept art history

A little bit of history:

Concept artists for games became important in the 1980s.  This is when, games moved away from generic games like pong into science fictional to adventure games and eventually to popular movie titles like alien, star wars and  predator.

Originally, concept art became more trendy in the early 1990s. As a part of gaming, a lot of popularity to concept art started with animation, popular concept designers like Syd Mead main role is to create and provide visual entertainment.

Visual entertainment is a subdivision of concept art in general, the aesthetic look to characters and creature in concept art had advanced in the mid-2000s, popular game titles like that of Tomb Raider, Solid Snake from Metal Gear Solid etc, were transformed immensely after the 1990's. 

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Aaron Torres, 2013, Resident Evil 6 Art Book, [online] available at: http://tiempocio.com/en/resident-evil-6-art-book/ [accessed 29th October 2014]