{"id":15045,"date":"2014-05-14T08:10:17","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T16:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/?p=15045"},"modified":"2014-05-14T08:10:17","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T16:10:17","slug":"artwork-jen-zee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/videogames\/artwork-jen-zee\/","title":{"rendered":"The Super Giant Artwork of Jen Zee"},"content":{"rendered":"\"cloudbank_by_jenzee-d67o5fk\"\n

Artist Jen Zee is best known for her role as Art Director<\/a> at Super Giant Games, where she’s “responsible for the lush hand-painted 2D artwork that defines the distinctive look of our gameworld and all its colorful denizens.” She helped to design the iconic look for Bastion<\/em>, a popular 2011 action RPG. Her work will also be seen in Transistor<\/a><\/em>, a spiritual follow-up to Bastion<\/em>, which releases on May 20th for PC and PS4.<\/p>\n

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Zee enjoys the challenge of creating a strong, likeable protagonists in her art and when working on creating the worlds feature in Super Giant games. She’s particularly proud of her work on Transistor<\/em>‘s female protagonist, who’s strong and attractive, but not in the over-sexualized way that pervades popular videogame culture. “I personally love creating female characters because I find there are many more ways to make a woman attractive to both men and women of all orientations,” Zee told Sarah the Rebel of Nerdy-but-Flirty<\/a> in an interview about her work on Transistor<\/em>. This is a lesson for artists of all mediums: painting, writing, film-making, etc.<\/p>\n

“I have a love of color that I find difficult to restrain,” she told Nerdy-but-Flirty. “But [I] definitely believe muted palettes have their place and produce a mood that can work in service of [a] slightly more personal, more serious story.”<\/p>\n

Zee herself finds motivation and inspiration for Transistor<\/em> from many places, including “John William Waterhouse is an old favorite, and his use of muted palette with vibrant atmosphere was a huge inspiration, as was Gustav Klimt, an artist whose interesting shapes and flare for dramatic presentation seemed to naturally synthesize with the cyberpunk aesthetic.”<\/p>\n

More of Jen Zee’s artwork can be found on her DeviantArt page<\/a>, or on her official blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Artist Jen Zee is best known for her role as Art Director at Super Giant Games, where she’s “responsible for the lush hand-painted 2D artwork that defines the distinctive look of our gameworld and all its colorful denizens.” She helped to design the iconic look for Bastion, a popular 2011 action RPG. Her work will… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[31,28],"tags":[1285,888,889,38,886,59,887,1284],"class_list":["post-15045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-videogames","tag-art","tag-bastion","tag-cyberpunk","tag-fantasy","tag-jen-zee","tag-science-fiction","tag-transistor","tag-videogames"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n