Oh Snap, check this out! 💥 Dani & Ayran sat down with Marvel Snap to chat through the Visions of the Future card set, which we at Dardo have been busily contributing to. Find out which cards were their faves and take a dive through this coming set👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6Le...

Curious to know more about Bloomhell & Dardo's VFX work? Daniel & Omar sat down to chat about the project in this BTS video. Check it out on our YouTube channel 💥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahyx...

💥 Punk grenade 💥 This VFX concept from our Bloomhell project is a (literal) explosion of graphic colour and fun. Shout out to our concept artist, Geoffrey Amesse for the excellent work on this project! #VFX #ConceptArt #GameDevelopment

"We challenged ourselves to create a VFX reel that highlighted the work in context, making sure that the effects we created were performant... The shots in Bloomhell aren’t faked; they’re actual captured gameplay showcasing our real-time VFX" Interested? dardostudios.com/work/bloomhell

"...the VFX needed to keep the 2D-like shapes of the concept within a sphere mesh, so that it properly worked in the 3D space. It also had to break the silhouette... in a way that looked seamless, as if it was all a single element." Check out this VFX tech blog by Dardo artist Pedro Paulo 👀

Here's a VFX breakdown to start your week! Take a look behind the scenes of our "holoshot" effect, created with Unreal and Niagara as part of our internal VFX project, Bloomhell. VFX is just one of our many skillsets here at Dardo, so if you're looking for a VFX partner, send us a message 🔥

Dardo in the wild 🔥 The Grandmaster's Royal Bulwark and Grandmaster's Prophetic Mace are in the World of Warcraft Trading Post this month, along with a bunch of other chess-themed weapons we worked on with the team at Blizzard. Go grab some gear updates! news.blizzard.com/en-us/articl...

"I like to use a curve color atlas for... consistency among different particle systems & materials. The concept art is a great place to sample important color values" Dardo's Omar Parada talks on his "bone wave" effect in this Bloomhell VFX breakdown. Have a read! dardostudios.com/blog/the-bon...



From Dardo's fantasy mini game in Bloomhell, the leap of faith was made of many VFX pieces to create one dramatic sequence, and it was such a fun action to play in the game environment we build using Lyra! 

 


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Concept to final - the VFX of Bloomhell 

At Dardo, our concept and VFX artists work together on projects to create visually stunning and incredibly performant VFX. Missed the reel? Check it out on our Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR4D...

It's time for a closer look 👀 Here are the concepts vs final VFX of our "bone wave" effect from our new reel, Bloomhell. Miss the reel? We got you: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR4D...

Artstation Update! Here's a deeper look at our character work on the Philosopher Kings for @fpcstudio.bsky.social's upcoming MMORPG, codenamed Ghost ❤️‍🔥 www.artstation.com/artwork/lG5AOJ

Bloomhell, a VFX Reel by #DardoStudios 🔥 We built 4 video games to bring our #VFX and UI to life. More later. Enjoy the show & tell us what you think💥 🚨Need a studio partner on your VFX? Send us a message: dardostudios.com/contact youtu.be/cR4Dw_wQfJ4 #GameDevelopment #UnrealEngine #Houdini

Another one 😎 It's been an exciting week-and-a-bit for us. We had the joy of collaborating with Treehouse Games on their upcoming game, Voyagers of Nera. More coming soon, but for now, the demo is out on Steam! Thanks for having us, Treehouse 🙌 www.youtube.com/watch?v=51tJ...

See some VFX you like? We've been stretching our art muscles. More coming soon 👀 #DardoStudios #Bloomhell

We've been cooking 🔥 and we can't wait to show you more soon. But for now, check out the trailer for #InvincibleVS, a 3vs3 tag fighting game which we had the opportunity to collaborate with @skybound.bsky.social on ❤️‍🔥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=girN...

Pretty excited to see the trailer for Last Flag go live today - we had the joy of collaborating with the team at Night Street on this! Can't wait to show you more of our work 💥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Yi...

It's an exciting end to the week for us! Here are some of Dardo's contributions to the character for Fantastic Pixel Castle's Project Ghost, a modern fantasy MMORPG currently in development ❤️‍🔥 Art Direction by Daniel Orive Concept Art by Yassmine Kairouch

Will we see you at @lightboxexpo.com? Dardo's Co-founder Kenny Carvalho will be there with Art Lead Ed Laag, & they would love to see you ❤️‍🔥 If you're an artist or a future partner looking for a collaboration, hit us up so we can make some time for you 🙌 See you in October!

SPOTTED: Dardo work in the wild ❤️‍🔥 Check out the latest update from the team at Fantastic Pixel Castle and catch some of our character work in the mix. We can't wait to share more of this work with all of you 🤩

Internal Development ❤️‍🔥 At Dardo, we provide time for growing our skills & learning during breaks from client work. This nighttime city scape was painted between projects last year by concept artist & illustrator Clara Sinem, with some art direction from Daniel Orive 🔥

#DardoStudios Internal Challenge! 🔥 Here's a look back at when we challenged ourselves to create a #Borderlands character. Take a glimpse at some character sheets, models, as well as some little animal friends 🐓 Concepts - Daniel Orive Models - Rodrigo Reis Character Sheets - Nicolas Amarilla

Who else is binging Love, Death + Robots this weekend? 🙋 Dardo's 3D Environment Lead, Sacha Veyrier recreated a shot from Alberto Mielgo's "the Witness" in Love Death + Robots s01 as a personal project, adapting the sharp, cutout style into a 3D scene 🔥 #LoveDeathandRobots

It’s time for your week’s dose of Dardo Artists💥 Take a swipe through the dark portraits of Dardo’s Art Lead, Ayran Oberto. Ayran’s portraits are surreal & experimental; captivating & impossible to look away from. Want to see one of them come to life? Check out the Timelapse in the comments 🤩

Dardo Archives 🔥 Daniel Orive created this iconic jungler for League of legends during his time at Riot Games. Dani was part of the initial DNA process of this character all the way to the final assets in game 🙌 Check out the turntable here: buff.ly/BSg3Cwl

Did you like Sloclap’s 2022 brawler game, Sifu? 

 You might be wondering why we're asking. Well, we thought we'd share some of the beautiful environments that Dardo's Lead Environment Artist, Sacha Veyrier contributed to on Sifu when he worked with Sloclap. Check it out! 🔥

When at #Blizzard working on #Hearthstone, Dardo’s Daniel Orive contributed #ConceptArt that inspired the game’s illustrations. He created the legendary piece of #QueenAzshara for the Voyage to the Sunken City Set, which is also the hero portrait in Battlegrounds mode. #DardoStudios

🇪🇸 ¡Hey, Madrid! ¡Parte del equipo de Dardo asistiremos a Beerworking! Nuestro Head of Art, @danielorive_art, y nuestro Principal Artist, @fibodemons, asistirán este mes a Beerworking Fest, ¡y tienen muchas ganas de conocer a otros asistentes! ❤️‍🔥

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It’s time for another Dardo Artist feature! ❤️‍🔥 Welcome to the wonderful world of Dardo’s Lead 2D Environment Artist, Guillaume Delbarre. These pieces are from a personal project that Guillaume has in development, set in a world of advanced magic and tech.

Throwback! 💥 While at #RiotGames, Dardo’s Daniel Orive provided guidance and art direction for Pyke post-concept development. Dani also contributed to Pyke’s direction with additional concepts and in-game assets for #LeagueofLegends

Brawl Stars x Akira ❤️‍🔥 At Dardo, we love pushing ourselves to develop our skills. One of our favourite ways is to take games & art styles we love, & do creative studies. For this mashup, we chose Supercell's Brawl Stars and the ever-iconic Akira 🤘 Check out the video: youtu.be/Dg7RsLRZt8U

New Work! 💥 A collection of environments our team contributed to Fantastic Pixel Castle’s upcoming modern fantasy MMO, Ghost. 

These visual development artworks show parts of Ghost’s Blue Zones - areas of game play scattered across the sky ☁️ #VizDev #ConceptArt #FantasyArt

#ArtDirection Chapter 7: The Art Pillars (Part 2) This is it - the final part of our Art Direction series. Let's take a look at the final art pillars that Daniel Orive and the team set up for Project LAX ❤️‍🔥

Catch some Dardo environment work at 11:10 and 11:50 👀

#ArtDirection Chapter 7: The Art Pillars Welcome to part one of two of the final chapter in this series! We hope you've been enjoying the insights into Project LAX 🤩 
The first art pillar for LAX was Stylized Realism, & we had 3 rules to live by. Let's dive in.

Dardo Artist Spotlight👀 Jesse Baumgartner is our Animation Lead and has 19+ years of experience on some of the coolest IPs, from Ratchet & Clank to different projects at Blizzard, Riot & Insomniac. In short, he’s a total bad-ass when it comes to character animation 1/3 Song: Iron Swan by The Sword

Oh, it's #PortfolioDay? Here's our reel. Hey, we're Dardo. Your Art Department in a Box. Hit us up for all things art direction, creation, recruiting and consulting 👋 dardostudios.com

#ArtDirection Chapter Six: The Fish Shape So far, we have our initial creative direction ready, we've defined a path for the art team to start, and we have our team. So what next? What's our plan? Let’s present the fish shape! 🧵 /1

Personal Project: Paper Boat by Ed Laag A project close to the heart for #DardoStudios Art Lead, Ed. Paper Boat is an in-dev coming of age story of a young man and his band of misfits, born within a rich island culture, coming together to repel an invading corporation. #ConceptArt #GraphicNovel

#ArtDirection Chapter 5: Setting Up Your Boundaries So now we have our initial creative direction ready, & we've defined a path for the art team to start exploring. Art Team? What Art team? 🧵/1

Before #DardoStudios, Daniel Orive was part of a startup called HitShift, where he played a key role on Project Rebel. He focused on tests, reusing assets & marketplace resources to aid a fast pipeline. This allowed the team to pitch without depleting limited resources that startups face 🙌

#ArtDirection Chapter Four: Setting up Creative Pillars What's the difference between creative pillars & art pillars? Creative pillars help artists imagine & inspire the world they want to create. Art pillars define the rules that make an art style unique & recognizable 🧵/1

Ma Meilleure Ennemie? Sounds like it's time to share some Powder fan art from Dardo's Daniel Orive ❤️‍🔥 #Arcane #ArcaneFanArt #MaMeilleureEnnemie #LeagueofLegends #ArcanePowder #Powder

It's always exciting to see your work go live 🔥 Back in January, #WorldofWarcraft released the Arsenal: Green Clockwork Contraptions Collection as a reward for players. Dardo contributed to these steam-powered weapons with the Mace, Fist Weapon, & Shield that you can see in the article, linked 🙌

Before we start, take this playlist that the team created as inspiration while building the world of LAX: open.spotify.com/playlist/68v... It will help immerse you in the topics we’re chatting about this week✨ 🧵

#LeagueOfLegends - Neeko 🦎 Take a look back at some incredible past projects from members of #DardoStudios Co-founder and Head of Art, Daniel Orive, worked on Neeko when he was at @riotgames.com Dani was the lead visionary for this champion, guiding the art team to deliver this iconic character.

What did you do this weekend? Dardo talked art with creatives from all over the world at @iamag.bsky.social. We contributed talks, demos & portfolio reviews across the event & have left with full hearts & a whole host of new friends & potential collaborators. #DardoStudios #ArtCommunity #ArtEvent

#ArtDirection Chapter Two: Establishing an IP Every project starts with a spark. For the world Dani was envisioning with LAX, the inspo came from his life living in Madrid, music that he grew up with, media he consumed, & a desire to evolve the traditional fantasy genre /1

Day One IAMAG - done! 💥 Shout out to everyone who stopped by our booth and came to watch our first lot of talks. We had a blast. See you tomorrow! #DardoStudios #GameDev #ConceptArt

Ready for an adventure in a fantasy land? 👝 This is Dardo’s contribution to Fantastic Pixel Castle’s upcoming MMORPG, codenamed “Ghost”. Lead by Dardo's Patrick Faulwetter, our team collaborated with FPC on environments, creatures, plants, & the maps for each location 🗺️ #DardoStudios #GameArtist