Tribuner said:
Volkov said:
There is no such thing as "art industry", so the question is completely meaningless. Can modern artistic styles influence video games? No, I don't believe so, I have seen absolutely no evidence of this happening. Largely this has to do with the fact that modern art is, to a large degree, somewhat abstract, versus video game artistic styles really cannot be.
omg thank you for helping me with my tital, lol i have a much better understanding of that aspect now. what i was refering to was all art not just modern art. every form of art for exampule if you look at demon's souls you will see alot of simbolic art work in the aetbook you get with the black phantom edition, this loos alot like somthink Brian c Baker would creat, the image im refering to is tower of latria on page 32.
OK, if I am understanding you correctly, I think you are mixing up two different things.
1). Do video game artists (and here I really mean animators, 3d modelers, to a degree even programmers, composers and performers, etc.) draw on a variety of existing art styles from various other media, both current and from the past? Yes, of course they do, whether consciously or not. But that is not the same thing as "influence", at least the way I define the term.
Here is what "influence" means to me:
- A modern artistic work, in some other medium, is published.
- A video game artist encounters this work, and somehow reacts to it (whether by using it, agreeing with it, disagreeing with it, etc.) in the art of the video game that he/she is making. For instance, he saw an interesting way to portray emotion in a sculpture, and used a similar technique in the 3d models of the game he is making, maybe in an attempt to convey the same emotion.
- Now this, I would see as "influencing". In other words, a change/event in another medium directly results in a correlated change/event in a specific video game, or several of them.
So, this raises the question:
2). Do changes/events in other artistic media directly result in correlated changes/events in video games?
I believe the answer is an absolute "No, not at all." This is partly related to the fact that, again, MODERN changes and events in artistic media (primarily visual) are very abstract, and often contextual. And non-visual art, in video games (that is, music and writing, primarily) plays such a supporting role, that it's only really influenced by the mood of the game, and not by significant events in the corresponding artistic media.
So to summarize:
But, can video game artists be inspired by something they see in other media? Sure, of course they can. But that's not at all the same thing as influence.