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Brainbug Design is a concept art/vis dev studio embedded within the entertainment industries, overrun with compulsive world builders!

Nottingham, UK.
Joined December 2018
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BRAINBUG DESIGN: STUDIO SHOWREEL 2023!
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Lowering the tokamak.
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Recently we had the opportunity to design the Lunar Festival Set for Sea Of Thieves, celebrating the year of the Ox! Check out the teams work! #SeaofThieves #LunarNewYear #conceptart
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RED ONI! Our take on some traditional Japanese demons. Ink and watercolour. #conceptart #traditionalart
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We've had some requests for process gifs! Here's our Desert March image taken from blender to photoshop! The guy on the left does a little dance at the end! :D #conceptart #environmentart #process
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The Desert March.
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Birdbug! 😍
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When danger nears, a Jacana bird dad carries his chicks under his wings, with only their dangling legs still visible. The result is certainly... something.
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Helping Rare and 343 Industries develop the Infinite Depths crossover was such an exciting challenge for us! The real struggle though was coping with dangerous levels of nostalgia when designing a flintlock plasma pistol and energy sword cutlass!🩵 #HaloInfinite #SeaOfThieves
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Avast Pirates! From what ancient shores did these primordial treasures emerge? Check out these original concepts for the Prehistoric Plunderer Captains outfit, Weapons and Ship Parts! #SeaOfThieves #Pirates #Dinosaur
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It was great seeing @SeaOfThieves giving no quarter at the Xbox showcase this past weekend! Here's some loot we helped them dig up back in Season 2!
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Its #PortfolioDay ! Brainbug is a Concept art, Illustration & Vis Dev studio embedded within the entertainment industries! #conceptart #illustration #visdev
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Beware the grasp of the villainous "Claw Clan" stalking the streets of Edo Tokyo! #traditional #watercolor #characterdesign #edojapan
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All you'll see of the claw clan assassin is a flicker of steel in the darkness! :O Have a great weekend everyone! #traditionalart #watercolor #characterdesign
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Babushka & Silver Hoof. #conceptart #characterdesign
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What secrets lie within the Amberyn Chambers? 🦎 #conceptart
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INKUBATION COMPLETE! Here's Part 1 of the final week of this years BUGTOBER, including some spooky ones for Halloween! 🎃 #inktober2021 #sketchbook #Bugtober2021
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We’ve arrived! @developconf
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Here's a clip of Ricardo adding values to one of his 'tobers! #Bugtober #Inktober #Monstober
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Vignettes from our latest piece! #conceptart #environmentart #visdev
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BUGTOBER ‘22 WEEK 1! So it begins! Here’s some our favourite week 1 ‘tobers from the brainbug crew! #inktober2022 #Monstober2022 #Drawtober #Bugtober
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BUGTOBER '22 WEEK 4 PART 2! We've loved seeing everyone's inky goodness this year, thanks for inspiring the team!
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BUGTOBER 2021: WEEK 3 PART 1! Heading in to spooky week next!🎃 #inktober2021 #monstober2021 #drawtober2021 #tradationalart
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We've sent out probes scanning for a Senior Concept Artist to join the team but they can only do so much! Why not save them the trouble by applying the old fashioned way through the link below? :D
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More chameleons from the Amberyn kingdom. Here's the Ranged Deathlick Guard! 👅
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What do you think of this as a post lockdown look for when we're all out in the world again? We're calling it Blade Claw chic! :D #traditionalart #watercolor #conceptart
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At Brainbug, collaboration is everything! Two heads are usually better than one... Plus it means twice the real estate for implants! #conceptart #illustration
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Phase-mite! Can you guess it’s purpose? #3dcoat #Procreate
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Super kawaii 3D Printed brainbug plant pots! #ThrowbackThursday
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Meet Mazzy, a character from PROJECT DUSKFINDERS, an internal horror IP being developed here at Brainbug Design! Follow along as we reveal more about the world of Duskfinders and learn about the plight of its characters and the ancient evil they’re seeking to eradicate!
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Raising a tankard of grog in congratulations to the team over @SeaOfThieves ! It's been great accompaning them on this voyage. Show them some love! 🏴‍☠️
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Congratulations to Sea of Thieves for winning the Best Ongoing Game at #gamescom2022 Sailing the seas has never been so much fun!
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The bugs had a blast contributing to the latest chapter in the ever-expanding world of Sea Of Thieves! Happy Lunar New Year! 🐂 #LunarNewYear #SeaofThieves #conceptart
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From Lunar Festival items and Order of Souls-inspired pets to heroic stances and dynamic weapon poses, have you picked up anything new from the Pirate Emporium lately? Even if none of their fresh stock takes your fancy, don't forget to pop over and grab your free Plead Emote!
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Got our wheels sorted for 2021! #Guzzoline #Ratrod
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Looks like there’s still some bugs out there on the naughty list! Happy & safe holidays to all celebrating from the Brainbug crew! Hope everyone has a blast whether solo or together and finds time to regenerate for 2022, see you there!🎉 #HappyHolidays2021 #happynewyear2022
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Ref-splosion in the Brighton lanes!
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Here's some vignettes from our latest piece! #conceptart #illustration
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Our site has mutated just in time for Halloween! Drop by and check out the latest features!🎃
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A hidden sect, from across the Sea of Okhotsk now grows in the darkest corners of the forests around Mt Hood... #Occult #Conceptart
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PART 2 CONTINUED! #Inktober #bugtober
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Keep moving forward!
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We invited friend of the studio and local legend @Andytheillustra over to the brainbug HQ to share his artistic insights with the team. His work pays homage to his pop culture obsessions by weaving them into the fabric of a wholly original world he's creating from the ground up!
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Happy #LunarNewYear Celebrations! Thinking of all the @SeaOfThieves pirates decked out in this new year gear today! Happy sailing for the year ahead. 🎉🎆
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BUGTOBER '22 WEEK 2! Check out some of the bugs latest offerings for the second week of Bugtober 2022! As the leaves turn rusty outside we're hopefully doing the opposite and getting back into some traditional drawing with no "edit undo"!
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How about this chameleon temple? 🦎
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Hope your Monday is going better than theirs! Here's an unflinching look at some of the undead inhabitants of HELL-A created at Brainbug for #deadisland2 ! Check out for more! 💀 #mondayfeeling
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October's drawing challenges feel all the more poignant this year as we just lost a true hero of the craft, the legendary Kim Jung Gi. A lasting example of the heights possible with the humble pen and paper in a digital age. Thanks for the immortal inspiration!
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Super fun design from @mahonsunto !
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Hermit Ocean Crawler design for Sea of Thieves: A Pirate's Life - my favourite boy!! 🐚🤮
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Beware the grasp of the villainous "Claw Clan" stalking the streets of Edo Tokyo! #traditional #watercolor #characterdesign #edojapan
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Code harvest complete! Have a great weekend!
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Check out this write up on the @OspreyBooks blog expanding on The Silver Bayonet! You also get a sneak peek at some of the work we did for the book, lobe-shudderingly terrifying!😮
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Goretastic look into the coming Hell-A-Scape that is @deadislandgame ! Great to see some of our design work brought to life and then swiftly to death by the awesome team @DSDambuster ! Bring on Slay-pril 21st!
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We've been experimenting with half day Fridays over the last year, using that time to focus on teamwide lobe expansion! Here's a sneek peek!
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Had a great time with the team @brainbugdesign on Friday, the exercise was to make a few custom parts in 3dcoat/Fusion and kitbash with them in blender, super fun! here's where I ended up! #kitbash
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THE TERROR!!!! Check out this sneak peek at The Silver Bayonet: A Wargame of Napoleonic Gothic Horror from @OspreyGames and Joseph A. Mccullough including one of many ghoulish apparitions from us!
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Announcing The Silver Bayonet: A Wargame of Napoleonic Gothic Horror from the award-winning creator of Frostgrave, Joseph A. McCullough. It is a game of action and adventure, where musket and sabre meet tooth and claw. Available October 2021.
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Gift it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure... They get their presents! 🎅🎄 MERRY BUGMAS!
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Another process gif! This time showing how our image "Lowering the Tokamak" was taken from blender to photoshop! :D #conceptart #environmentart #Blender3d #photoshop
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Last year we had the pleasure of providing stunlock studios with promo images for their upcoming vampire survival epic V Rising, learn more over @VRisingGame ! 🦇🩸
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Happy New Year All! 2022 was a wild ride! The hive is now seven bugs strong, we implemented half-day Fridays as well as fully hybrid working & spawned our first limited edition collectible model! Thanks for all the support! Here's to 2023! #HappyNewYear2023
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Visit the @Embertrail booth to get a refreshing sip of planetary rejuvenation! Lord knows we need it! #Gamescom
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Booth set up ✔️ (Nice work @Kindabravepub 🖖) looking all nice ✔️ Lets proceed! #Distantbloom #Gamescom
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We've been alerted to some early whisperings of Distant Bloom! A project close to our hearts here at Brainbug! Was a treat to contributing the universe @Embertrail is building! Looking forward to seeing more!
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Harness the power of plants to restore the environment and build a flourishing community in Distant Bloom. 🌱 Nurture alien flora 🚀 Reunite your scattered crew 🛠️ Craft recipes and tools to improve your base 🔍 Uncover the history of this strange planet
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End times aside, Brainbug attached itself to some incredible new projects this year & successfully melded minds with some amazing people! It made 2020 not just bearable but exciting with actual positive memories somehow! Hope everyone has a great new year, see you in 2021!
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EVEN MORE 'TOBERS! Here's some more contributions to @brainbugdesign 's Bugtober2020 event including a little homage to artist @DarrowGeof 😍 #inktober #penandink
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We'll take 50!
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In a daring riff on their established multiplayer epic tank battling franchises, Wargaming and DPS games had a bold vision for an uncompromisingly chaotic and colourful future dystopia! We were lucky enough to have a hand in some initial conceptualisation! Check it out!
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Thanks for the shout-out Embers! Gorgeous interpretation of that sketch in 3D, Distant Bloom is shaping up to be a must play for those looking to get lost in a journey of rejuvenation and hope! who doesn't need that right now?! 😀 Can't wait to sink our mandibles into it! ❤️
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How our Builder NPC came to life 🔨 From an awesome concept done by our friends at @brainbugdesign 🐞 to the finished 3D model! #DistantBloom #gameart #conceptart #indiegames #indiedev #unrealengine #arttips #arttutorial
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Meet the BUGBOT, our first awesome collectible figure! After a fair bit of prototyping it has finally become a reality, encapsulating in bug-botic form our awesome studio and team. Stay tuned for more info- available soon on our web store! #brainbugdesign #toys #collectible
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BUGPOTS! Modelled and printed by @rukkits on insta! #brainbugdesign
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Great to finally get a look at the SOT Halo crossover set in action! Designed here at Brainbug in collaboration with the dedicated art teams @RareLtd and @Halo ! You'll be sailing rings around your enemies! ⚔️ #SeaOfThieves #Halo
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Sea of Thieves
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Look there, a salvo of Sea of Thieves News is dropping in! There's a new set of Twitch Drops, a pancake-based present and an update on Adventures. Is that not enough? Well, if you squint hard enough, you might also spot some Pirate Emporium goodies based on a legendary hero...
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We know this app is old news now but we couldn’t help ourselves!Thanks to everyone that followed Bugtober this year, here’s a bug fight! #traditionalart #Fight #brainbugdesign
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Season's Greetings from Father Bugmas! Gather round the crawldron for a nice warm cup of spiced grubnog! Keep safe out there! #Conceptart #SeasonsGreetings2020
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TEKROMANCER purging dead code from data streams in the cyber underworld! #hackers #conceptart
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Great to see the unholy masses in their millions swarming Stunlocks latest Vampire epic @VRisingGame ! Brainbug had the dark pleasure of contributing promo images for the project, check them out below!
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Lycanthropes feasting on Napoleonic infantryman!? @OspreyGames contacted us this week to provide a process video showcasing how we created illustrations for their upcoming game The Silver Bayonet! This ones going live at 2pm UK time @SHUXshow , we've synchronised our timepieces!
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Osprey Games 🎲
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The Silver Bayonet - @SHUXshow Exclusive Art Are you as excited as we are for the release of Joseph A. McCullough's new gothic horror wargame in October? Be sure to join us tomorrow for the art time-lapse at Illustrations from talented @brainbugdesign
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V RISING reveal trailer!🖤We took a method approach when providing @StunlockStudios with illustrations for the project, surviving on nothing but human blood for a month. It was the only way to do the diabolical world they're building justice! Check out @VRisingGame for more info!
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V Rising
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Announcing V RISING. Compete or cooperate in an open-world Vampire Survival Game. Trailer:
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Happy national pupa day! #NationalPuppyDay
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Avast Ye! Such a treat to see The Golden Nile and Sunken Sorrow treasures showcased in the latest Season of @SeaOfThieves , it was great collaborating with the crew over at Rare on these unique curios! 🏴‍☠️
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Sea of Thieves
3 years
Start planning your subaquatic shenanigans early with the Sea of Thieves Season Four Content Update Trailer! Siren Shrines, Treasuries and boatloads of Coral loot arrive this Thursday, September 23rd.
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If you need any more convincing to vote for Dead Island 2 at the @feardemic Horror Game Awards then look no further than the unspeakable things they asked us to design for the game! It doesn't matter that we loved every second of it! That's not the point!😉
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The real treasure was the friends made along the way... That and the @SeaOfThieves The Legend Monkey Island expansion!!!! It was a dream come true contributing to Guybrush's legacy with the dedicated crew over @RareLtd ! Can't wait to play! 🐵
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Rare Ltd.
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Introducing @SeaofThieves : The Legend of Monkey Island! Given the classic adventure games' role in fuelling many of our crew's fascination with pirates, it's been a privilege creating a new story combining two gaming worlds we hold dear, and we're excited for people to play it!
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Brainbug's own Aidan Wilson offers up a behind the scenes breakdown into his process of creating artwork for @OspreyGames ! A must read for aspiring boardgame/RPG artists!
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Osprey Games 🎲
10 months
🖌️ For our last behind-the-scenes blog for The Silver Bayonet: Canada, we spoke to the incredible people at @brainbugdesign about one of their new artworks for the book: 👉 OUT NEXT WEEK:
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Loving the tone here! The crew at Brainbug had a blast working with Dambusters on this project and we can't wait to have a blast playing it! Less than a month to go! 🔥
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Dambuster Studios
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It's now less than a month until @deadislandgame is released! And what better way to celebrate than a sneak peek at our game's Hollywood-inspired title sequence? See you April 21st, Slayers. #DeadIsland #seeyouinhella
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