Kristina Ness  ✨

Additional advice! In interviews for an art position, there's a good chance they will ask you who your inspirations are. This always makes me freeze up and forget everyone I know and love. Think of a little list ahead of time!

As someone who has been an artist for years, but aside from painting. Ie impressionists, surrelism ect. How do you learn the names of certain styles? Beyond naming the company itself?

Most studios just have a natural house style that can sometimes differ from game to game. Usually researching the artists who worked on a specific title will give you a better sense of what a company is looking for and how a game arrived at a certain 'look'

Oh! So I was thinking too broad, so sort of like how fallout is realistic, where skyrim is hyper-realistic?

Hmm, this is an interesting question. I think it's best to divorce the notion of "style" from "art movement" when analyzing games. Both Skyrim and Fallout have realistic textures/materials but still carry a level of stylization that sets them apart from other games. The...