Digital art and design studio Atomhawk have released the first images from their work on Mortal Kombat X, available to view on the studio’s freshly re-designed website www.atomhawk.com .
A team of five artists spent over a year working with Warner Brother’s NetherRealm studio to create concept art for fight line environments and scenes such as Raiden’s Sky Temple and Rains Cove. The team also created a spectrum of special new characters, including Erron Black, Dark Raiden and Ninja Mime.
Atomhawk Director and Founder, Ron Ashtiani, says:
“The biggest challenge for us was creating a new, more believable Mortal Kombat universe than we had worked with on Mortal Kombat 9, while still building on the game’s well-loved heritage. Fortunately, our long standing relationship with Nether Realm meant they afforded us a large amount of creative trust to explore and develop new ideas.”
Atomhawk’s work has helped NetherRealm to take the franchise in a new, more realistic and gritty direction, focussing on how the character and location folklore would influence the artwork and make it more believable.
Ashtiani says:
“Thinking of fight lines as being intractable also was a fun challenge; no longer are the environments just a backdrop, they contain objects that influence the fight.”
Almost 30 previously unseen pieces of Mortal Kombat X concept art are available to view on Atomhawk’s new website at http://atomhawk.com/case-study/mortal-kombat-x
The site also features new and historical work from Atomhawk’s rich catalogue of concept art, marketing art, user interface design and motion graphics, as well as case studies and the latest team and company news.
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