ARC Raiders Early Concept Exploration 2020

In May 2019, I joined Embark Studios as an Artist to work on a new IP that would later become ARC Raiders.As a tiny group of artists; Myself, Robert Sammelin, and Esbjörn Nord with Andrew Svanberg Hamilton art directing the project in its early days, we began exploring the world of ARC Raiders.

The game looked and played quite differently back then.With the idea of a vast open world cluttered with decaying large structures and very little interior gameplay, we started to explore visual themes like nature reclaiming man-made spaces, brutalist architecture, and an unstable world with shifting sand dunes, forests taking over old structures, and layers of history stacked upon one another.

Here is the second batch of images I created for the project during 2020.
Art Director: Andrew Svanberg Hamilton
Creative Director: Stefan Strandberg