The beautiful art of Uncharted: The Lost Legacy

I’ve always imagined video game art to be the most thankless job in the world. You can’t make a hot new game without a vision, and more often than not said vision is brought to life by a dedicated team of artists. Creative people, whose sole task is to give life to the ramblings of the development staff and produce visual prototypes of everything from the main characters through to the pebbles that players run over with nary a thought to the hours poured into painting those games into life.It’s a hard job, one that requires more and more hands for it the larger a game becomes. Can you imagine then, the amount of art that was poured into Uncharted: The Lost Legacy? The amount of creative genius used to create tombs, treasures and environments that made the game such a stunner? When you’ve set the benchmark in previous titles, the pressure to perform and offer something new must be immense.

Fortunately, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy stepped up to the task at hand, delivering a stunner on the eyes:

Like I said above, the talent that developed the look of the latest Uncharted deserves more love. And if you want to see more of their work, then here you go. Go give these artists some much-deserved appreciation:

• Adrian Castro – Environment Modeler
• Brian Recktenwald – Environment Modeler
• David Budlong – Environment Modeler
• Edgar Martinez – Environment Modeler
• Henry Cheng – Environment Modeler
• Martin Teichmann – Environment Modeler
• Rogelio Olguin – Environment Modeler
• Todd Foster – Environment Modeler
• Anthony Vaccaro – Environment Modeler
• David Baldwin – Environment Modeler
• Alice Gionchetta – Environment Texture/Shader Artist
• Brian Beppu – Environment Texture/Shader Artist
• Genesis Prado – Environment Texture/Shader Artist
• Heather Cerlan – Environment Texture/Shader Artist
• Jared Sobotta – Environment Texture/Shader Artist
• Jeremy Huxley – Environment Texture/Shader Artist
• Matthew Trevelyan Johns – Environment Texture/Shader Artist
• Richard ‘Pipes’ Piper – Environment Texture/Shader Artist
• Inkyo Lee – Technical Artist
• William Lestingi – Technical Artist
• Jeremy Vickery — Lighting Artist
• Robby Johnson – Environment Concept Artist
• Isaac Yeram Kim – Environment Concept Artist
• Eytan Zana – Environment Concept Artist
• Nick Gindraux – Environment Concept Artist
• Richard Lyons – Character Concept Artist
• Byunghwa Jung – Character Artist
• Colin Thomas – Character Artist
• Danilo Athayde – Character Artist
• Jaehoon Kim – Character Artist
• YingKang Luo – Character Artist
• Nancy Cantu – Character Artist

Highest of fives, to Naughty Dog’s team of all star artists.