Join ArtStation Game Week 2022
A Weeklong Game Art Celebration
We’re thrilled to announce that Game Week is returning to ArtStation! From November 14th to 18th, tune in for live Q&A events on ArtStation Blogs, browse educational content releases on ArtStation Magazine, discover new artists through our Featured Channel Schedule, and more.
For maximum visibility during Game Week, be sure to add your game art to the Channels in our Featured Channel Schedule, and to add relevant hashtags to your portfolio uploads.
FAQ
How do I upload my work to a featured Channel?
When uploading or editing a project from your portfolio manager, scroll down to the “Subject Matter” section of the page. Add the relevant subjects to your project with the search bar. After you publish, your work will be added to those Channels.
How do I follow ArtStation Game Week’s featured Channels?
From the ArtStation homepage, open the Channels menu and use the search bar to find the Channels in our Featured Channel Schedule. Click the “+” icon to add it to your homepage.
How do I participate in live Q&A events?
Game Week Q&As are live text-based events held on ArtStation Blogs. Use the Live Event Schedule below to access the Q&A posts. Stay tuned for more Q&A events coming soon!
Featured Channel Schedule
November 14: Game Art
Artwork created for games including splash illustrations, game concept art, and game production art.
November 15: Board and Card Game Art
Art and design work specific to card or board games. Includes cover art, figurines, etc.
November 16: Games & Real-Time 3D Environment Art
Projects focused on the creation of real-time 3D environment art, predominantly for games.
November 17: Gameplay & Level Design
Projects focused on game interaction and level design for games, covering 2D and 3D artwork.
November 18: VFX for Real-Time and Games
Real-time and in-game visual effects.
Live Event Schedule
ARTIST Q&As
November 15th 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. ET: Andrew Porter
Andrew currently works at Blizzard Entertainment as a Concept Artist and Designer. He has over a decade of experience, mostly in the games industry where he specializes in environment design, world building and visual direction across all genres of IP, art and games. Previous clients and projects include Microsoft, Warner Bros, Wargaming, Meta(VR), Gears of War, Batman, Dirty Bomb and others.
November 15th 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. ET: Jessica Lee
Jess is a 2D artist with a background in graphic design. Her artwork focuses on character movement and expression which has led to her working on illustrations and comics for Apex Legends. Jess is currently a character artist at Summerfall Studios working on the upcoming roleplaying musical, Stray Gods.
November 16th 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. ET: Maury Mountain
Maury specializes in bringing depth, life, and story to surfaces as a texture artist for video games, with a background in music, drawing, painting, and 3d modeling. Maury has been an artist at Epic Games for 19 years, where he has worked on Unreal Championship 2, Unreal Tournament 3, Gears of War 1, 2, and 3, Shadow Complex, Infinity Blade, UE4: Infiltrator, UE Store: ARPG Content, and Fortnite.
STUDIO Q&As
November 17th 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. ET: Playground Games
Playground Games is an Xbox Game Studio and one of the highest rated video game developers in the world, with two AAA studios based in Leamington Spa. Famed for the critically-acclaimed Forza Horizon franchise, our latest release, Forza Horizon 5, is the highest rated Xbox exclusive this generation with a 92 Metacritic. In both 2020 and 2021 the studio has awarded Best Place to Work in the UK games industry by gamesindustry.biz.
November 17th 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. ET: Bungie
Founded in 1991 in a one-bedroom apartment in Chicago, IL, Bungie is the studio behind some of the biggest videogame hits in history, including Destiny, Halo, Myth, Marathon, and more. With global headquarters in Bellevue, WA – home to our soon-to-be renovated 100,000+ square foot studio – we’ve come a long way, and our goals remain the same: to create the best games in the world and to cultivate vibrant communities around them.
November 17th 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. ET: Tuatara Games – Klemen Lozar
Tuatara delivers stunning results in the field of visual effects for AAA studios like Riot Games (Valorant), Epic Games (Fortnite), Counterplay Games (Godfall), and many more, but their passion doesn’t stop there. As versatile creators they are busy developing their debut title Bare Butt Boxing, a chaotic multiplayer brawler with physics-based characters.
Game Week Sponsors
ADOBE SUBSTANCE 3D
Substance is thrilled to sponsor Games Week on ArtStation and are excited to share new updates to the Substance 3D Collection that empower game makers to design in 3D. Adobe Substance 3D has powered indie games and AAA titles alike as the industry standard in 3D texturing. Now with one connected 3D design solution, the Substance 3D Collection offers everything you need to create, texture, and deliver incredible 3D interactive experiences. Explore the Substance 3D Collection here.
MARVELOUS DESIGNER
Marvelous Designer is a leading 3D design software for Computer Graphics (CG), gaming, animation, and the movie industry. Marvelous Designer provides the most accurate and fastest cloth simulation for producing CG-powered digital content. In addition, leading animation and gaming studios use Marvelous Designer to showcase accurate, realistic garments inside their AAA digital content.
