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Game-Art-HQ

Game-Art-HQ.com
Logo of Game Art HQ.png
Type of site
Gaming / Art
Owner Privately Owned
Created by Reinhold Hoffmann
Revenue Not-for-Profit
Website http://www.game-art-hq.com/
Commercial Yes
Registration Free
Launched 2011-06-21
Current status Active

Game-Art-HQ is a website that provides game related artworks which were released by game developers as well as detailed fan art and sometimes cosplay photos. Unique to this website are Art Projects / Tributes organized there aboutvideo games. These have been featured on many Web Portals like chip.de chip.de Eventhubs and Shoryuken. One of them, the Street Fighter Anniversary Art Tribute, was organized in cooperation with Capcom While Fan Art is mostly used for drawn art, Game Art HQ also considers cosplay, sculptures and crafts as artworks relevant for the site. Additionally, there are interviews with Game Producers, Artists and Cosplay Models done from time to time. The website aims to promote art by video game companies as well as helping independent artists to get more exposure. While there are many Communities supporting and showing fan art, there are strong guidelines and quality standards on Game Art HQ. Another difference with portals which show Fan Art to generate revenue is, that Game Art HQ is publishing the artworks only with the clear permission by the creator(s).

In June 2011, the German site founder Reinhold Hoffmann registered the Game-Art-HQ domain and started the website on 21 June as a blog about artworks related to video games. This concept was the base for later ideas like galleries for now over 1500 different games and game characters. The first community project on Game Art HQ was a little tribute to Battle Arena Toshinden and its characters. Fourteen Artists participated in this fan art tribute. Following were art contests and growing art tribute projects like the Street Fighter 25th Anniversary Tribute with over 200 artists in cooperation with Capcom. They celebrated the 20th Anniversary of the Doom games on 10 December 2013 with an art tribute which was featured on multiple websites like Kotaku or Eurogamer . In 2014 they celebrated the 20th Anniversary of the Sony PlayStation by illustrating 45 games through fan art.


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