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Join other players talking about games. Visit the Y8 Forum. Moreover, the Realistic art style has previously been the most popular style in the Fantasy art genre, but now Cartoon has replaced Realistic as the most popular one.

However, both art genres have grown smaller in terms of the number of games in the top grossing, while, for instance, the Realistic — History art genre is now much bigger than in This research provides us with a general overview of the current market situation. When we compare the situation between and , not much has changed in terms of art style and genre popularity.

Nevertheless, it will be interesting to see if the market will be the same after five years or more. Now, after two years, we can say that neither of these speculations did happen. Vector art can be sorted into individual styles, with the overall characteristic of having a high quality and resolution.

Cutout art is mainly used in animation. For example, a digital asset of a character can be imported from real paper cutout art or created on a computer. The cutout image remains static unchanging , but its position can be moved to simulate action and motion, and it can be instantly replaced by another cutout to simulate a change in state. Cel Shading is a relatively new style of art that has great clout in the game development community and dozens of big examples.

At the core of this style is an attempt to make 3D models and objects look 2D, flat and paper-like. Imagine that you are looking at a coffee mug, and it is turned into a 3D model. Then, you take the way you see this 3D model from one angle and put it on paper, with just part of the mug visible and depth removed.

This way, objects and characters maintain a high level of detail but lose their volume. For example, Unity cel shading features are a big contributor to the memorable look of Borderlands, helping make the release very successful. While there is no universally accepted monochromatic art definition, artwork and designs are usually called monochromatic when they employ a very limited color palette, and usually just 1 or 2 colors.

However, a wide range of shades and tints of this color s is also used to distinguish between objects, settings, and parts of an image. Black is the most common choice for such art, with most elements in this color, and the rest differentiated through white or shades of grey. This one is somewhat self-explanatory. Flat design in games presents objects, characters, and settings without depth and volume. There is no dedication to realism or physics like the one typically present in cel-shaded titles.

Instead, artists designing such art have an incredible amount of artistic freedom in their work. Flat designs and models tend to all have unique looks without a common characteristic, unless they borrow from other styles. Doodle is perhaps the only art style defined not by certain characteristics that define a unique look, but by the actual content of the work.

To doodle is to draw something while your attention is focused on other matters. In modern gaming circles, it's easy enough to pull a handful of titles out of the air for their beautiful graphics and realistic visuals.

Yet that doesn't mean that games that don't strive for that level of fidelity are any worse for it, or not worthy of our time. Far from it. As the saying goes, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" after all.

But that doesn't mean that looks alone can carry a game either, for gamers are not just shallow creatures. We've come a long way over the last few decades, as these examples will show you.