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
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
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.
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
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
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
At Brainbug, collaboration is everything! Two heads are usually better than one... Plus it means twice the real estate for implants!
#conceptart
#illustration
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!
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! 🏴☠️
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!
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
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!
Happy
#LunarNewYear
Celebrations! Thinking of all the
@SeaOfThieves
pirates decked out in this new year gear today! Happy sailing for the year ahead. 🎉🎆
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"!
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
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!
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!😮
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!
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
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!
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.
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
! 🦇🩸
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
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!
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
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!
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!
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! ❤️
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
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
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...
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
Season's Greetings from Father Bugmas! Gather round the crawldron for a nice warm cup of spiced grubnog! Keep safe out there!
#Conceptart
#SeasonsGreetings2020
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!
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!
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
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!
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! 🏴☠️
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.
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!😉
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! 🐵
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!
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!
🖌️ 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:
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! 🔥
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