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Gears of War 3 Character Art Dump at ZBrush Central

Epic Games has an amazing art team, and many of them are members of the ZBrush Central forums where they occasionally post images of their work. ZBrush is a 3D modeling program and a favorite of the artists here. Epic is all about teamwork. Models get passed around and are tweaked and passed around again. The end results are the amazingly detailed characters and environments that you see in our games.

Back in October, Epic Games‘ Senior Character Artists Mike Kime and Chris Wells started an “art dump” thread, which has images of many of the Gears of War 3 characters as works in progress. The incredible hi-res images are a feast for the eyes and will delight Gears of War fans. Epic Games‘ Senior Environment Artist Kevin Johnstone also started an art dump thread for Gears of War 3 environment art. You can see it here: http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?162646-Gears-of-War-3-Environment-Art. Kevin is great about answering fan and peer questions and does so throughout the thread. Kevin gives great insight into what it takes to create such amazing pieces.

If you would like to check out more character, concept and environment art from Epic Artists, click the following links:

Mike Kime:  http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1449484#post1449484
Kevin Johnstone: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=90110
Jay Hawkins: http://hawkprey.blogspot.com/p/unreal-tournament-iii.html
Jay Hawkins with Shane Pierce: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=90087
Chris Wells: The Ladies of Gears of War 3: http://www.pixologic.com/blog/2011/10/gears-of-war-3-the-ladies/

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  • GERARDO LÓPEZ

    MAGNIFICO QUE INCREIBLE TRABAJO!!!!!!!!!!!

  • GERARDO LÓPEZ

    MAGNIFICO QUE INCREIBLE TRABAJO!!!!!!!!!!!

  • JediMasterGabe

    What’s the fourth picture? Savage Drone?

  • JediMasterGabe

    What’s the fourth picture? Savage Drone?

  • Anonymous

    dear epic games i had the golden retro lancer but i dont have it anymore can you please make the golden retro skin available sumeway sumhow many people would appreciate it

  • http://twitter.com/phourwrist Forrest Claw

    lol Anya had bigger boob in the first gears.

  • http://twitter.com/phourwrist Forrest Claw

    lol Anya had bigger boob in the first gears.

  • Dsaxon6

    Amazing :-)

  • Gambinos Wrath

    Looking at these, it would be a great groundwork for the tabletop games, easy to mold straight from this great artwork

  • Allanrashidb

    armored kantus! :)

  • Tenaticm

    me gusto simple mente ermoso no hay comparasion
    seria jenial que sacaran una ampliasion en obas dela historia como son abas pudieran que
    asta allan nuebos personajes

  • Tenaticm

    me gusto simple mente ermoso no hay comparasion
    seria jenial que sacaran una ampliasion en obas dela historia como son abas pudieran que
    asta allan nuebos personajes

  • Tenaticm

    me gusto simple mente ermoso no hay comparasion
    seria jenial que sacaran una ampliasion en obas dela historia como son abas pudieran que
    asta allan nuebos personajes

  • http://twitter.com/DarthWad3r Joe Wade Knowlton

    incredible stuff

  • SnowBrigade822

    I cannot express how incredibly neat these are!  I had no idea the Gunker was composed of this much detail and resembled a Butcher so much.  Not to mention the Armored Kantus- this guy needs a blue print!  The sounds associated with these characters are spot on too; when I hear the those metal stomps of the Armored Kantus I shit my pants!

  • Carrene717

    muy buen trabajo

  • Fan of Don Chan

    I love Sam.. Civilian Sam would be epic. That is all.

  • http://twitter.com/phourwrist Forrest Claw

    yeah it would be.  or civilian myrrah.

  • Blighted

    These are all amazing! The beta Anya looks so much cooler than the ingame one.

  • http://twitter.com/BachoBanchou Ivan Armendariz

    Civilian Myrrah would be simply bad-ass, or at least another female locust to play with :D

  • Adrien-fograph

    My dream is just to work with you ! <3

  • Po

    THIS STUFF IS AWESOME!!, MOAR PLEASE

    hopefully this tallent wont be wasted on fort night, like Blur studio making a pixar movie

  • deatheater

    i wish dlc wjth with the fourth carmine would come out

  • http://twitter.com/idbst Sergio Galvez

    good job. twice photos of bernie are exactly the same image in both :)

  • Jerry godinez

    awesome i love the game but what would be cool is if they made a gears of war 4 and i always thought that queen mira was marques mom because she looks human. 

  • Sexyhotasiangirl

    Hello Epic. This is Queen Viva. Thanks again for making the locust Queen playable on versus.. It would be wonderful if the locust Queen had some GOLD ARMOR on her as well.. If it’s not a problem for you all. Can you “PLEASE” create or put some GOLD ARMOR on the locust Queen that would be awesome before March 27 2012. I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you so much for bringing back guardian!!!! PLEASE make the locust Queen have some Gold armor on her I would go crazy if I seen that… Thanks again for your marvelous beautiful work on gears 3 it truly is the best shooting game I ever played thank you epic.
    P.S. PLEASE make the Locust Queen Have GOLD ARMOR PLEASE!!!!!
    Sexyhotasiangirl again this is Queen Viva!!!!

  • Sexyhotasiangirl

    Hello Epic. This is Queen Viva. Thanks again for making the locust Queen playable on versus.. It would be wonderful if the locust Queen had some GOLD ARMOR on her as well.. If it’s not a problem for you all. Can you “PLEASE” create or put some GOLD ARMOR on the locust Queen that would be awesome before March 27 2012. I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you so much for bringing back guardian!!!! PLEASE make the locust Queen have some Gold armor on her I would go crazy if I seen that… Thanks again for your marvelous beautiful work on gears 3 it truly is the best shooting game I ever played thank you epic.
    P.S. PLEASE make the Locust Queen Have GOLD ARMOR PLEASE!!!!!
    Sexyhotasiangirl again this is Queen Viva!!!!

  • Sexyhotasiangirl

    Hello Epic. This is Queen Viva. Thanks again for making the locust Queen playable on versus.. It would be wonderful if the locust Queen had some GOLD ARMOR on her as well.. If it’s not a problem for you all. Can you “PLEASE” create or put some GOLD ARMOR on the locust Queen that would be awesome before March 27 2012. I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you so much for bringing back guardian!!!! PLEASE make the locust Queen have some Gold armor on her I would go crazy if I seen that… Thanks again for your marvelous beautiful work on gears 3 it truly is the best shooting game I ever played thank you epic.
    P.S. PLEASE make the Locust Queen Have GOLD ARMOR PLEASE!!!!!
    Sexyhotasiangirl again this is Queen Viva!!!!

  • Sexyhotasiangirl

    Hello Epic. This is Queen Viva. Thanks again for making the locust Queen playable on versus.. It would be wonderful if the locust Queen had some GOLD ARMOR on her as well.. If it’s not a problem for you all. Can you “PLEASE” create or put some GOLD ARMOR on the locust Queen that would be awesome before March 27 2012. I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you so much for bringing back guardian!!!! PLEASE make the locust Queen have some Gold armor on her I would go crazy if I seen that… Thanks again for your marvelous beautiful work on gears 3 it truly is the best shooting game I ever played thank you epic.
    P.S. PLEASE make the Locust Queen Have GOLD ARMOR PLEASE!!!!!
    Sexyhotasiangirl again this is Queen Viva!!!!

  • Sexyhotasiangirl

    Hello Epic. This is Queen Viva. Thanks again for making the locust Queen playable on versus.. It would be wonderful if the locust Queen had some GOLD ARMOR on her as well.. If it’s not a problem for you all. Can you “PLEASE” create or put some GOLD ARMOR on the locust Queen that would be awesome before March 27 2012. I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you so much for bringing back guardian!!!! PLEASE make the locust Queen have some Gold armor on her I would go crazy if I seen that… Thanks again for your marvelous beautiful work on gears 3 it truly is the best shooting game I ever played thank you epic.
    P.S. PLEASE make the Locust Queen Have GOLD ARMOR PLEASE!!!!!
    Sexyhotasiangirl again this is Queen Viva!!!!

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/P27HQZVTS327GVGG4NVP3PINWA Marcos

    todos sus modelos estan super chidos pero solo una pregunta porque no aparesen personajes de los dlc como alicia valera, tai kaliso tremor theron de elite maulers de elite o de armas como el silverback al unico que veo es a michael barrick si saven de una pajina porfavor mandela a mi correo
       threashball@hotmail.com@hotmail:disqus sobre el comentari me impactan los modelos son tan perfectos estan super grasias

  • BlackHeart_wolf_90

    it would be cool if we could use da lambent characters on multiplayer and on beast mode

Posted by Flak Feb 03, 2012 Last Updated Feb 03, 2012
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