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The Art Of The Witcher 3: Designing The Ice Giant

The climax of the gameplay demo had CD Projekt RED showed us for last month's cover story had Geralt battling an ice giant in his lair. As the lead character artist, Pawel Mielniczuk leads the art team at the studio in the design of all the game's characters and monsters. Combining all disciplines within the studio, Pawel says that designing the monsters for the game is one of the team's biggest challenges.

Watch the video below to learn about the monster design process and to see the ice giant's in-game model in action.

 

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  • Awesome.

  • Oh man, as a character artist I would freakin love to work on the Witcher series.. It's sad to know that this is the last one :(
  • Looks really good so far.

  • Yuck. Good job, CD Projekt RED. You made a character that haunts me, and I always think that's a good thing in games.

  • Triss Merigold in Playboy? Dafuq? How difficult will that ice giant be? The trolls in Witcher 2 werent that difficult.
  • Gotta start saving if you are planning on playing this beast on PC...I reckon $2000.00 should do it...
  • That is one hideously grotesque ice giant. Pretty cool through.

  • Im a big Witcher series fan :) LOOOOOVE this game. To me it's gonna be game of the year ;) No just need to wait.....

  • looks good

  • I like those posters in the background.
  • Always the best videos.
  • Ice Troll is trolling ^_^ Looks nice, the troll took a lot of effort to create, that's for sure.

  • I like the Giant's design.

  • 00:13 Cyberpunk rulebook on the table. Sweet

  • Just bought the first witcher on steam for $10. About 10 minutes in and I like it.
  • can't wait

  • thats awesome looking. so excited

  • havnt biught any of the witcher series....im a more of a bethesda fan so would i like it?
  • Love seeing stuff come together like this. Pure art.

  • The Witcher games are such great games, I am so looking forward to the third game.

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