The pipeline for designing creatures and armour in Guild Wars 2 begins with bold, ambitious concept art. "I want it to hit the extreme," Adam says. "And then we can pull it back during production ...

Recently I spoke with the art director behind Guild Wars 2 to discover how this timeless ... "We had an armour set in concept that had a lot of fur to it," begins Adam. "So we were trying to ...

Guild Wars 2 artists like Ruan Jia and Thomas Scholes found new ways to use the software, pioneering techniques like photo-bashing (read Thomas Scholes' modular concept art tutorial for an insight).