Into the Pixel Video Game Art Winners Announced

For the 2011 Into the Pixel (ITP), 17 works of video game art have been selected for this prestigious collection, the highest honor that can be bestowed upon a game artist. Now in its eighth year, the ITP – a collaboration between the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) and the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) – is the only juried art exhibition that brings together experts from the traditional fine art world and the interactive entertainment industry to display and discuss the art of the video game. The 2011 Into the Pixel collection will be unveiled and presented at the annual E3 Expo at the Los Angeles Convention Center from June 7-9, 2011 in the Concourse Foyer.

“Into the Pixel showcases the incredible creativity, skill and artistic talent that pervades in the video game industry,” said Glenn Phillips, Senior Project Specialist & Consulting Curator, Department of Architecture and Contemporary Art, Getty Research Institute. “You really see that there are great artists working across every genre of video games, and at every stage of the production process.”

Into the Pixel 2011 Winners:

Title of Artwork	Artist(s)	Game	Company
Amorphous Drake	Lucas Graciano	Legends of Norrath	Sony Online Entertainment
The Bridge	Erik Zaring & Anders Gustafsson	The Dream Machine	Cockroach Inc.
The Cottage	Hamzah Kasom Osman	Drawn 3	Big Fish Games
Cronos Battle	Tyler Breon	God of War III	SCEA/Santa Monica Studio
Dead Walking	Chris Moffitt, Brad Crow, Nathan Stefan, Bart Tiongson	Orcs Must Die!	Robot Entertainment
The Dragon Play	Brian Thompson and Hamzah Kasom Osman	Drawn: Dark Flight	Big Fish Games
Flemmeth	Matt Rhodes	Dragon Age 2	BioWare
Good Friends	Matthew Halpin, Andrew Matthews, Matthew Preece, Radek Walachnia, John Laws	Kinectimals	Frontier Developments Ltd
Grim Exploits	Colin Foran, Claire Hummel, Ryan Wilkerson	Trenched	Microsoft Game Studio/Doublefine
Incident at the Workshop	Ivan Simoncini	Alien Swarm	Valve Software
Market Fire, Columbia (Shop Sweeper)	Ben Lo	BioShock Infinite	Irrational Games
Normandy	Mikko Kinnunen	Mass Effect 2	BioWare
Oktonok Cay Cannery	David Guertin	Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One	Insomniac Games
Paper World	Say Oh and Damian Kim	Paper World	Namco Bandai Games
The Pelican Inn (Pub)	Andrew Kim	UNCHARTED 3: Drake’s Deception™	Naughty Dog, Inc.
Stahl Arms	Jesse van Dijk	Killzone® 3	Guerrilla
Swamp Skull	Jeff Haynie	Mystery Case Files: 13th Skull	Big Fish Games

Into the Pixel 2011 Jurors:

Glenn Phillips, Getty Research Institute, Senior Project Specialist & Consulting Curator, Department of Architecture and Contemporary Art
Nora Dolan - Independent Curator
Ryan Wilkerson, Microsoft Game Studios, Senior Art Director
Matt Hall, Timbuk2 Studios, Senior Partner Production Designer
Brian Moore, Microsoft Game Studios, Art Director

GDN will take a peek at the collection and a panel discussion at E3 this year and report back on what we see and hear.