Skip to content

Who are the artists who designed BG1 and BG2 portraits?

DJKajuruDJKajuru Member Posts: 3,300
edited September 2012 in Archive (General Discussion)
Hey there , I've seen so much from the IWD artists, but I honestly don't know who drew and coloured BG's portraits.

Specially BG1's , they look so real, as if the artist had used real life people to create the npc's.

Also, do you how did they paint the portraits? I've seen tutorials by Jason Manley's on how to give that 'oil painting' look to IWD portraits, but I've always wanted to 'Baldurize' a portrait.



Comments

  • GueulEclatorGueulEclator Member Posts: 175
    I would like to see those old artist come back to make new portrait for the EE. The current one makes cool portrait, but they don't have the BG feeling at all, and that is pretty lame. They should be making BG style portrait, else what is the point of calling it BG EE?
  • mch202mch202 Member Posts: 1,455
    edited September 2012
    The one who made the BG1 portraits is Mike Sass, He actually made portraits of Bioware employees who worked on the game.. Here it is:

    http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/3226/imoens-big-fat-round-face/p3

    check out @Shin comment.

    @GueulEclator

    There is already a discussion about the new portraits styles, including comment of 'Boozilla' who is working on the Art along with Nat Jones and comments of Jason Manley, here you go if you care to read:

    http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/4492/new-bgee-portrait/p1

  • DeeDee Member Posts: 10,447
    @mch202 And actually, from what I've heard he actually used photographs of those employees and "airbrushed" them into their current state. Quite a masterful job, too, although personally I prefer the "whole cloth" portraits in BG2.
  • ShinShin Member Posts: 2,345
    edited September 2012
    The BG portrait artist is named Mike Sass (he's on deviant art and also http://www.sassart.com where you can view more of his stuff). The portraits he worked on look real because he did indeed base them on real people, mostly the people involved with making the game and friends of his. Alora is based on a pic of his wife for instance, Ajantis is Ray Muzyka and Coran is Greg Zeschuk. For a somewhat more complete listing of the models check out http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/3226/imoens-big-fat-round-face/p3


    Edit: Ah, seems I was slightly late.
  • GueulEclatorGueulEclator Member Posts: 175
    mch202 said:

    The one who made the BG1 portraits is Mike Sass, He actually made portraits of Bioware employees who worked on the game.. Here it is:

    http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/3226/imoens-big-fat-round-face/p3

    check out @Shin comment.

    @GueulEclator

    There is already a discussion about the new portraits styles, including comment of 'Boozilla' who is working on the Art along with Nat Jones and comments of Jason Manley, here you go if you care to read:

    http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/4492/new-bgee-portrait/p1

    Thanks :)
  • DJKajuruDJKajuru Member Posts: 3,300
    Whoah, what a great illustrator he is!
  • MemmMemm Member Posts: 26
    I'd like to know whose the artist who did Rasaad's portrait? I couldn't find any post answering this question, so if its already answered, my apologies...
  • MemmMemm Member Posts: 26
    Thanks for the reply!
Sign In or Register to comment.

2024 Overhaul Games, a division of Beamdog. © 2024 Hasbro, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Baldur's Gate, Dungeons & Dragons, D&D, Forgotten Realms, Baldur's Gate, Wizards of the Coast and their logos are trademarks of Wizards of the Coast LLC in the U.S.A. and other countries, and are used with permission. Hasbro and its logo are trademarks of Hasbro, Inc. and are used with permission. © 1998 BioWare Corp. All Rights Reserved. BioWare, the BioWare Infinity Engine and the BioWare logo are trademarks of Bioware Corp. Black Isle Studios and the Black Isle Studios logo are trademarks of Interplay Entertainment Corp. Atari and the Atari logo are trademarks owned by Atari Interactive, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.