Born in Italy but now residing in the UK, Taini was a senior concept artist on PS3 launch title Heavenly Sword. He was then visual art director for 2010′s Enslaved, and is fulfilling the same role on Ninja Theory’s upcoming Devil May Cry reboot for Capcom.
Being Italian I’m not sure if this is intentional or not, but when you strip back the colours and the Photoshop work, his character pieces have a very Massimiliano Frezzato (Keepers of the Maser) look to them, which you can see in the picture of Kai in the gallery.
Above you’ll find a selection of Taini’s video game works, though as DMC is still in development most of them are from Ninja Theory’s last two projects.
Below? His personal site, with plenty more great pieces on show.
Fine Art is a celebration of the work of video game artists.
TALEXI’S WORLD [Blog]
Luke
Wednesday, September 28, 2011 at 8:52 AMFantastic!
Effluvium Boy
Wednesday, September 28, 2011 at 9:12 AMPhwoar!
MikeZdoesit
Wednesday, September 28, 2011 at 10:24 AMI LOVE the unrealness of the costumes, I know there’s a lot of people campaigning for woman being dressed in proper armor etc but there’s such a gorgeous artistic element and statment letting your imagination run wild. Its really what I love about Japanese games in general.
xWisp
Wednesday, September 28, 2011 at 12:32 PMyeah, i still cant get past his dicky looking haircut. =.=
scree
Wednesday, September 28, 2011 at 6:02 PMIf you’re talking about DMC, I agree. I really hate what they’ve done to it so far. Especially the smoking. I despise smoking.
Other then that the artwork is beautiful. I especially like the enslaved stuff.
AerintheADEQUATE
Thursday, September 29, 2011 at 12:33 AMI like this guy’s style. Part of me wants to see him illustrate a Tank Girl comic at some point.