Guild Wars Wiki:Projects/Concept art
Concept art projectThe objective of this project is to produce a comprehensive, organised concept art collection for this wiki at Category:ArenaNet concept art, the subcategories of which should be intuitive and navigable. | |
Contributors[edit]
Tasks[edit]Collating[edit]
I've created an archive of GW1 concept art images from trawling ANet's concept artist websites. Not all of them are here - some animation reels etc. can't be uploaded to the wiki, and GW2 concept art was generally ignored when going through the websites. That said, there's probably some GW2 concept art that's accidentally found its way into here, so be wary of that. If you're in doubt, you can always check gw2:Category:Concept art by artist. Also be wary that Utopia was scrapped late in development and GW:EN had a relatively quick development time, so chances are that a LOT of ideas (and even assets) for Utopia found their way into GW:EN. Finally, watch out for duplicate files - there will be a few duplicates floating around, especially between artist-specific folders and the ca.org folder - just upload whichever is higher quality/higher resolution, and use whichever name is more descriptive. The archive can be downloaded at:
Uploading[edit]
What I've been doing is uploading the concepts and organising them by artist (e.g. Category:Art by Kekai Kotaki) and campaign. The campaign concepts are divided into character and creature art (e.g. Category:Eye of the North character concept art) and environments and lore stuff (e.g. Category:Factions world concept art). If you're not sure who created a certain piece of art, place it in Category:Art by an unknown artist, and if you're not sure what campaign art is from, place it in Category:Unknown campaign concept art (don't bother with sorting it into world and character art). These are maintenance categories, so hopefully someone will recognise them and place them where they belong. Some files will also want placing into the category for loading screens of their respective campaign; disregard the previous naming scheme for loading screens. The categorisation will be enough. Some files (e.g. armour concepts) might warrant inclusion in a Category:Concept art by profession subcategory. Unlike the others, this need not apply to all concepts, only relevant ones. Organizing[edit]
This is the biggie - it's gonna be effort, but it's gotta be done. For files that already exist on the wiki, the same organization rules apply as above, except instead of uploading new files, you need to be:
If you have a duplicate file, simply uploading and hoping the wiki will pick up the duplicate file will not do the trick - although the upload tool is supposed to automatically detect duplicates, even a minor difference between two otherwise identical files will not be picked up. You will also have to check the file (if it already exists on the wiki) to see if the one you have in this folder is higher res/higher quality than the one on the wiki, and if so upload it. Be wary that some artworks have multiple iterations floating about online, and I'm not quite sure how we should handle that. If in doubt, make sure that you are using the most final version of a piece of art. This task is no fun, but it should be easy fromCategory:ArenaNet concept art to see which files need moving. You will need to find a different system for identifying which files need tasks like uploading higher res versions completing. Naming[edit]There are two cases you have to consider when naming:
{{arenanet image|concept art}} [[Category:Factions character concept art|Emperor of Cantha]] [[Category:Art by an unknown artist|Emperor of Cantha]]
Integration[edit]
All of this stuff won't have been for no reason - we can include galleries of concept art on mainspace pages to give a behind-the-scenes look at the development of an area. Nothing else much to say about this task except that it would be simplest if it was done after all the concepts have been organised. Progress[edit]It's difficult to keep track of how much is done and how much still needs doing because it is difficult to list files that still need uploading (especially as compared to ones that already exist on the wiki). It is, however, a little easier to find out what files already on the wiki still needs organising. The following categories contain files that need sorting into
Another way of checking what is done is by looking at concept art by artist. Below is a list of all artist categories. Enclose the text with
Random notes[edit]
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