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’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/