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Into The Pixel announces winning entries in E3 art exhibition
Juried art exhibition Into The Pixel revealed the winning entries in its 2013 collection ahead of a planned unveiling and presentation at E3 next week. Now in its tenth year, Into The Pixel is presented in a partnership between The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences and the Entertainment Software Association. This year's collection features multimedia works inspired by upcoming games such as Rayman Legends, Super Time Force, The Last of Us, and Assassin's Creed 4. The excerpted piece above, created by artist Nathan Stapley, pays tribute to Double Fine's Kickstarted adventure game, Broken Age. A full list of winning entries follows after the break below. Galleries of past and present winners are available at Into The Pixel's website.
Into The Pixel 2012 submissions open until April 20
The submission window is currently open for game artists to submit their work and get a little recognition at the Into The Pixel exhibit. The gallery, now in its ninth year, is sponsored by The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) and the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), and will debut at this year's E3 in June.Submissions are open until April 20. Artists should keep in mind that entries must be from a game they worked on, and that's out or in the process of launching. Art doesn't have to be submitted by AIAS or ESA members. This means indies should take the opportunity to submit their concept art and diversify the pieces usually displayed at the exhibit.
Into The Pixel 2011 submissions accepted until April 15
Artists are currently welcome to submit pieces for consideration for the Into The Pixel 2011 exhibit. The latest works for the digital game art exhibition, now in its eighth year, will debut at a little shindig called E3 in June. Submissions are open now and will close on April 15. The 2010 collection had 200 submissions, with 20 works selected for the gallery, which also travels to other locales throughout the year. All selected pieces of art are printed out by a "master printer," then professionally framed. It's admittedly far cooler than printing out your work on a BubbleJet and sticking it on your wall with Blu-Tack.
GDC: Gaming gets framed for Into The Pixel exhibit
Click to Super Mario-size We like a pretty picture just as much as the next Tom, Dick or Monet, but the art featured in the Into The Pixel exhibit – which opened to the public last night at GDC – is some of our favorite. You can experience the aesthetic splendor second-hand by checking out the gallery posted below. See if you can identify the games each painting is based on! (Spoiler alert: You'll never, ever guess some of them. Not in a billion, trillion years.) %Gallery-88075%
Into the Pixel goes into the auction on eBay
Hey, you remember the Into the Pixel exhibit at last year's E3, right? Oh, no, that's right, they don't allow the plebes in. Had you been lucky enough to grace it with your stares, you'd have found a "jury-curated exhibition of video game art created by published video and computer game artists." And now that very same art can be found gracing the pages of eBay, as the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences has opened up bidding on a smattering of pieces (starting yesterday and running through February 20). Featuring art from games like Flower and Fable 2, the proceeds will help to fund the AIAS' scholarship programs. The bidding has most certainly begun, though most pieces remain at their initial $100 opening bid as of publishing. If you're looking to snap up one of these snappy pieces, we'd suggest you get bidding sooner rather than later!
One Shots: Chained
One of the things many people love about Guild Wars is the tremendous imagination and feel of the artwork in the games. While we didn't get a description to go with this interesting screenshot taken by Logen, it reminds me of a gorgeous piece of art from Guild Wars. The work in question won a prize at the Into The Pixel showing at E3 2008. Thankfully, the artwork is available on the Into The Pixel site for everyone to enjoy. Check out today's great One Shots full size, and then look at the ITP gallery piece from artist Tyler West. We think you'll see the connection too. Are you one of the people who really love the artwork in Guild Wars? We'd love to show off more, but we need your screenshots to make that happen. Send your best screenshots (all MMOs welcome) to us here at oneshots AT massively DOT com along with your name, a description of the area, and the name of the game. We'll post them out here for everyone to enjoy and give you the credit. %Gallery-9798%
Into the Pixel at E3: a gallery of goodness
One of the most overlooked aspects of E3 is a chance to look at the Into the Pixel selections from each year. These are huge pieces of art inspired by and created for different video games. They often feature much deeper looks into the games they represent, just check out this piece from Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood as an example.Our favorites are probably the simple yet fun Mokeskine-notebook from Rayman Raving Rabbids, or the Little Big Planet-esque Puzzle World Twilight landscape painting. Check out our gallery below of images from the 2007 and 2008 shows and pick out your favorite. There's some really good desktop wallpaper fodder in there if you click the high rez button.For more Into the Pixel art, check out the galleries on their site. If you're in the Los Angeles area, the exhibition will be open to the public during this year's E for All, from October 3rd through the 5th.%Gallery-28052%
E308: EA Tiburon's quirky 2D platformer/puzzler reappears
Remember this khaki-clad British explorer, Hatsby? EA Tiburon's Kyle Gray introduced the character's charming sprite and his untitled puzzle/platforming DS game at GDC earlier this year, but we haven't seen or heard any news from him since! All we have had to go on all these months were the videos he left behind, which we've embedded past the break!Artwork for the game has mysteriously popped up on the official site for Into the Pixel, an art exhibit collecting exemplary works of video game art and scheduled to open to the public at October's E for All Expo. The piece, titled "Puzzle World Twilight" and submitted by EA Tiburon concept artist Jay Epperson, shows Hatsby taking to the nighttime skies against a backdrop of Chinese paper cut outs. Though we were already excited with the hybrid game's promises of an opera-singing boss, a robotic construct of Big Ben, and some unexplained touchscreen puzzle running alongside the platforming action, after seeing this gorgeous art, we can't contain ourselves! Tell us your secrets, Hatsby, you magnificent bastard!
GDC08: Into the Into the Pixel afterparty
What do you do after you've seen a collection of game-related art, like, say, the 2008 Into the Pixel exhibit? If your answer is "Go see a funk band reputedly featuring the bassist from Whitesnake," you're probably one of these people, because that's what happened at the afterparty. About 50 people and a fraction of Whitesnake were packed into the tiny but lovely Otis Lounge to celebrate game art having been shown.It sounds funny, but the funk was completely rocking. If that's the appropriate term. What do you call good funk music?
