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Since discovering Hyung-Tae Kim works in 2002 or so I’ve been fascinated by korean artists. These guys (and girls!) got a crazy imagination, bold skills and tremendous endurance. Most of them are working in the game industry, producing concept art, 3d assets and promotional illustrations for various korean MMORPG. Because of the government support, 100% of the korean games are MMO.

The good example of successful visual design is Lineage II. Those dark elfs are probably the most effective and attractive creations (taking into account polycout and texture limitations). But the upcoming next-gen MMO’s would be better! Besides the others, Aion is the most anticipated game got a great visuals and stunning artwork. Aion posters and illustrations are just wonderful and I finally discovered the guy behind some of them.

Ryu-Hun Yong is a korean artist, conceptual designer and illustrator. He specialized in character concepts, costume design, illustration and so on. Armed with Photoshop, Painter, Illustrator and 3d studio max he creates stunning posters, interesting characters and even graphic novels. Basically I discovered him by searching for the guy behind Fox Spirit manhwa, published in Apple vol.2 artbook.

He’s amazing artist and his website truly reflects that. The only problem is that it’s not user-friendly webpage. The blog is skewed in Firefox (all I see is a tiny stripe) and you can’t save images in just one click. Honestly I don’t know why artists doing such things.

Ryu-Hun Yong website: http://rewhy.com/

Roman Bordenyuk is both a traditional artist and digital painter from Vinnitsa, Ukraine. In his online portfolio you’ll find character design samples, enviros and props varied from sci-fi to fantasy setting. Professional credits includes Heroes of Annihilated Empires, 3D Real-Time Strategy published by GSC World Publishing in 2006. Besides videogames he’s also working in advertising designing posters, promo cards and all that stuff.

Roman’s website is very plain and clean, no graphics fluff or fancy flash. The core content is hiding under the gallery section while stuff page is all about beautiful panoramic photos. The rest is pretty standard except the idle links section.

You can also check Roman’s stuff on CGHub website portfolio: http://fenixtyphoon.cghub.com/