Best Visual Arts Archive
The Best Visual Arts Award recognizes the overall excellence of visual art in a game - including, but not limited to, animation, modeling, art direction, textures, etc.
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Recipient
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (Naughty Dog)
- Naughty Dog Team
Nominees
Rayman Origins (Ubisoft Montpellier)
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bethesda Game Studios)
El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron (Ignition Japan)
Battlefield 3 (DICE) |
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Recipient
Limbo (Playdead)
- Arnt Jensen, Morten Bramsen
Nominees
God of War III (SCE Santa Monica)
Call of Duty: Black Ops (Treyarch)
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Ubisoft Montreal)
Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar San Diego)
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Recipient
Uncharted 2 (Naughty Dog)
- Robh Ruppel, Erick Pangilinan
Nominees
Borderlands (Gearbox Software)
- Brian Martel, Jenn Wildes, Brian Cozzens, Tim Wilson
Assassin's Creed II (Ubisoft Montreal)
- Mohamed Gambouz
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Infinity Ward)
- Richard Kriegler
Flower (thatgamecompany)
- Jenova Chen, Matt Nava, Hao Cui |
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Recipient
Prince of Persia (Ubisoft Montreal)
- Mickaƫl Labat
Nominees
Fallout 3 (Bethesda Game Studios)
Metal Gear Solid 4 (Kojima Productions)
LittleBigPlanet (Media Molecule)
Gears of War 2 (Epic Games)
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Recipient
BioShock (2K Boston/2K Australia / 2K Games)
- Scott Sinclair, Shawn Robertson, Andrew James
Nominees
Assassin's Creed (Ubisoft Montreal / Ubisoft)
- Raphael Lacoste, Nicolas Cantin, Thomas Giroux, and Team
Team Fortress 2 (Valve)
- Charles Brown, Jason Mitchell, Moby Franke, Ariel Diaz
Crysis (Crytek DE / EA Games)
- Michael Endres, Tiago Sousa, Christopher Evans, Hanno Hagedorn
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (Naughty Dog / Sony Computer Entertainment)
- Evan Wells, Christophe Balestra
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Recipient
Gears of War (Epic Games / Microsoft Game Studios)
- Jerry O'Flaherty, Chris Perna
Nominees
Final Fantasy XII (Square Enix)
- Isamu Kamikokuryo, Hideo Minaba, Akihiko Yoshida
Okami (Clover Studio / Capcom Entertainment)
- Naoki Katakai, Kenichirou Yoshimura
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda Game Studios / 2K Games/Bethesda Softworks)
- Matthew Carofano, Christiane Meister, Istvan Pely
Viva Piñata (Rare / Microsoft Game Studios)
- Ed Bryan, Ryan Stevenson
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Recipient
Shadow of the Colossus (Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.)
- Koji Hasegawa, Masanori Kajita, Hironobu Nakano, Fumito Ueda
Nominees
God of War (Sony Computer Entertainment America)
- Steve Caterson, Terry Smith, Charlie Wen
Project Gotham Racing 3 (Bizarre Creations / Microsoft Game Studios)
- Gren Atherton, Julie McGurren, Peter Roe, Kiki Wolfkill
Resident Evil 4 (Capcom Production Studio 4 / Capcom Entertainment)
- Yusuke Hashimoto, Yoshiaki Hirabayashi, Yusuke Kan, Masaki Yamanaka
We Love Katamari (Namco Limited / Namco Hometek)
- Keita Takahashi, Takeshi Ugajin
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Recipient
World of Warcraft (Blizzard Entertainment)
- Sam Didier, William Petras, Justin Thavirat
Nominees
Doom 3 (id Software / Activision)
- Andy Chang, Seneca Menard, Kenneth Scott
Half-Life 2 (Valve Software / Vivendi Universal Games)
- Viktor Antonov, Randy Lundeen
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Intelligent Systems / Nintendo)
- Hiroyuki Hayashi, Chie Kawabe
Prince Of Persia: Warrior Within (Ubisoft Montreal / Ubisoft Entertainment)
- Mickael Labat, Patrick Limoges
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Recipient
Masanao Arimoto, Yoshiki Haruhana, and Satoru Takizawa for art direction in THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: THE WIND WAKER
Nominees
Mickael Labat, Raphael Lacoste, Celine Tellier and team for art direction in PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME
Akira Yamaoka for art direction in SILENT HILL 3
Eric Kohler and team for art direction in TRON 2.0
Atsushi Inaba, Hideki Kamiya and team for art direction in VIEWTIFUL JOE
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Recipient
Tetsuya Nomura for art direction in KINGDOM HEARTS
Nominees
Jonathan Chey, Ken Levine and Team for art direction in FREEDOM FORCE
Hokyo Lim, Suzanne Kaufman, Dev Madan, Augie Pagan and Karin Yamagiwa for art direction in SLY COOPER AND THE THIEVIUS RACCOONUS
Nicolas Cantin, Frdrick Gagn and Benoit Sokal for art direction in SYBERIA
Jay Beard, Erik Medina, Jeff Merghart , Dan Mueller and Tim Neveu for animation in THE MARK OF KRI
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Recipient
Fumito Ueda & team for art direction in ICO
Nominees
Greg Griffith, Bill Harper, John Kim, Jordan Pitchon, Bob Rafei, Josh Scherr & Rob Titus for animation in JAK & DAXTER: THE PRECURSOR LEGACY
Kazunori Yamauchi & team for modeling in GRAN TURISMO 3 A-SPEC
Lorne Lanning & Farzad Varahramyan for art direction in ODDWORLD: MUNCH'S ODDYSEE
Tetsuya Mizuguchi, Jun Kabayashi & team for art direction in REZ
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Recipient
Ryuta Ueda & Kazuki Hosokawa for art direction in JET GRIND RADIO
Nominees
American McGee for art direction in AMERICAN MCGEE'S ALICE
Tomonobu Itagaki, Hiroaki Matsui & team for animation in DEAD OR ALIVE 2
Joby Otero for art direction in SACRIFICE
Insomniac art team for art direction in SPYRO: YEAR OF THE DRAGON
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