I don't understand the several negative comments about these artworks. No wonder game developers are loathe to post these.

No one is going to spend huge amounts of time generating concept art. Get over it.

Besides, I think they are very nice.

What the hell is that thing?

[img]http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/7097/strangepw.jpg[/img]

Awesome...thanks for posting!!

Already had some discussion about this thing. Personally think that it is a harpy or smth close to it.

This artwork is amazing, thanks for posting this.

No. 2 is my desktop now.

Does anyone else think the guy in the screenshot looks like he'd be cold?

Not necessarily. He can be a Nord
Resistant to cold you know

Otherwise, hella' cold!

Actually the artworks look better than the screen I think O_o

It may be that we haven't seen actual ingame screenshots of the concept arts though...

Anyone else notice all the faces in the word wall?

Now that you mentioned it I am seeing faces all over the dang thing.

I thought it was some new kind of ruin belonging to some ancient civilization.

Is it possible that in Skyrim interiors won't be in separate cells but instead physically connected with the outside world like for example in Gothic?

On these artwork seems like we can see trees in the outside forests?

Could maybe someone of the devs confirm or deny that? I'm very interested as it is a cool touch!



(hope to shoot at dragons with bow and arrows through window of my mountain cabin )

- http://twitter.com/DCDeacon/status/25613941761646593

Ah... Well, ok then.

One thing about the screen is I think they placed the 2 arcs in that area wrong, as they are both the exact same arches, don't to the textures and the cracks, they are lined up one after the other, and are in the same orientation, so this flaw stands out more than it should.


Also, snow is obviously a texture or a dynamic shader at best. As it is the exact same on both arches. The best we can hope for is that there is a slider for snow and that the amount of "snow shader" increases on the textures. But it definitely squelches any dynamic snow theories.


Love the artwork and the screen though.

In this larger screenshot of the mountains towards the left you can now see two separate mountain ranges in the distance. Whether they're assessable isn't known. Hopefully they're not beyond an invisible wall.

wordwall's got to be High Hrothgar... the faces must have something to do with the Greybeards.

err, n/m... that's a forest.

In that first one anyone see a man going dragon form? Eh?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/raven/assets/img/gallery/05_large.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/raven/index.shtml

A-ha!

"...they built a new precipitation system that allows artists to define how much snow will hit particular objects. The program scans the geography, then calculates where the snow should fall to make sure it accumulates properly on the trees, rocks, and bushes. "

Same model = Snow in same places.

If you look closely the snow is slightly different in places, especially the base, the models are identical though, also I reckon the black figure in the wordwall painting is a dragon in human(ish) form, it has what appear to be talons

There were never any real dynamic snow theories to begin with. Just people not knowing enough about graphics technologies spreading rampant speculation. The "slider" is exactly what I predict as well, and I had http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1158033-amazing-snow-and-enviroments/page__view__findpost__p__16971345 the method which they're using (placing snow based on the object's normal maps).


True, but they could introduce a bit of randomness into it, but it's probably too expensive to do in a pixel shader. The quality is less than I had hoped. Crysis does a good dynamic snow shader. You can see vertical lines going through the snow, these should be blurred out somehow. It most likely has to do with the normal map resolution. Normal maps at DTX5 compression are extremely blocky. Only the new DX10/11 compression types are not blocky. And since the snow shader finds out where to place the snow via the surface normals, it's reliant on the quality of the normal map I suppose.



Nope. Count the number of sections in the back arch and the number of sections in the front one. The front one is buried much deeper.

ive asked this like 3 other times but is there a wallpaper version of the dead mammoth concept art? link would be much appreciated .

This is game image or a painting concept?

ingame screenshot