Art direction: full development cycle
Gwent started off as a mini-game in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. After gaining a lot of popularity, CD Projekt RED decided to develop it as a stand-alone game focused on multiplayer.
I’ve been appointed the art director of Gwent ever since the start of secret works on the standalone version until the Homecoming release. It was a very interesting project, especially that its goals and expectations changed multiple times throughout the development.
My scope of work encompassed not only overall art direction, but also leading the card illustration team and giving them daily feedback, coordinating and providing feedback to outsource, creating illustrations and UI assets, implementation in engine, and overseeing marketing art.
ART Team
In-house card illustrators:
Aleksandra Wojtas, Sandra Chlewinska, Alicja Kapustka, Katarzyna Bekus, Yamandu Orce, Daniel Valaisis, Bartłomiej Gawel, Marta Dettlaff, Anna Podedworna, Bruno Biazotto, Manuel Castañón, Diego Luiz de Almeida Peres, Bogna Gawronska, Christof Grobelski, Lorenzo Mastroianni, Nemanja Stankovic, Karol Bem, Maciej Laszkiewicz
Outsource card illustrators:
Hugo Richard, Slawomir Maniak, Pawel Swiezak, Tokkun Studio, Grafitart, Form Language Studio, Filipe Pagliuso, Noah Bradley, Devos Florian, Dario Coelho, Chris Rallis, Darek Zabrocki, Bryan Sola, Bayard Wu, Adrian Smith, Alejandro Mirabal, Ilker Serdar Yildiz, KD Stanton, Lasahido Lius, Miles Johnston
UI artists:
Horatiu Sasu, Shironne Peiris, Angelina Lisouskaya, Alexandr Yanchuk
3D artists:
Paweł Ozon, Ronald Gebilaguin, Lukasz Lazurek, Piotr Majkutewicz, Jakub Mrówczynski, Ilona Salska, Michal Wozniak, Ewa Swiderska
Animators:
Brad Auty, Lucie Schaar, Emmett Carlsson, Abhinav Goel, Kamil Helbin, Filip Pachucki, Marta Slama
VFX artists:
Dmitry Nikiforov, Tomasz Kalinowski, Marcin Lipiecki, Mateusz Marczak, Juliusz Bienkowski, Marcin Rudnicki
Tech artists:
Rafał Syty, Vladimir Petrov, Igor Derbis, Aleksandra Rutkowska
Sound designers:
Krzysztof Lipka, Paula Karbowniczek, Mateusz Szymański