Viktor Antonov

Viktor Antonov.

Viktor Antonov (born in Sofia, Bulgaria) is a video game art director and conceptual artist who worked with Valve on Half-Life 2 and Half-Life 2: Lost Coast. Antonov is currently the visual design director of Dishonored and oversees the design of many of the uniques setting in the game.

Biography

With a mostly steampunk style, Antonov has been in the video game industry since 1996. He holds a transportation design degree from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and has also designed for commercials, animation and film in the USA and Europe. Antonov has been living in Paris (France), where he immigrated at 17, Montreaux (Switzerland), Los Angeles and Seattle.

He has founded the entertainment design studio "The Building" in Paris, France. The firm provides design services and consulting for multiple platforms, ranging from video games, feature films, commercials to television series. He is also a visiting design instructor at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Film Academy.

Antonov was art director and conceptual artist for Half-Life 2 and Half-Life 2: Lost Coast. For Half-Life 2, he designed most of the City 17 style and the Combine architecture and technology.

As it is commonly done during a video game's development, most of his concept art for Half-Life 2 was done with Photoshop on existing screenshots of work-in-progress maps.

Work

Video game

• Half-Life 2: Lost Coast (2005)
• The Crossing (on hold)
• Dishonored (2012)
• Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (2006)
• Counter-Strike: Source (2004)
• Kingpin: Life of Crime (1999)
• Quake II Mission Pack: The Reckoning (1998)
• Redneck Rampage Rides Again (1998)
• Redneck Deer Huntin' (1997)
• Redneck Rampage (1997)

Film

• The Prodigies (announced)
• Renaissance (2006)

Sample Artwork Gallery

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Weepers concept art by Viktor Antonov.

Vehicle concept art by Viktor Antonov.

Dunwall bridge concept art by Viktor Antonov.

Dishonored Corvo concept art by Viktor Antonov.

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Concept art of the Pendleton Twins.

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Alternate concept art of the Pendleton Twins.

GameInformer cover designed by Antonov.

Trivia

• Antonov can be seen credited across the web as the composer of cut Half-Life 2 music. This is incorrect, as Antonov is not a composer and most of this miscredited music is actually credited to Kelly Bailey or is most of the time totally unrelated to Half-Life 2.

External links

• Official website
• Viktor Antonov at Siggraph on Planet Half-Life
• GDC Lyon: Antonov Talks Visual Design, Half Life 2 on Gamasutra