Airborn Studios

05/01/2021

Oh hey there! We hope you arrived safely and soundly in 2021! We surely did. Kicking off this year's portfolio activity with what can be considered a Fortnite 'oldie' by now, but wasn't in our gallery yet: Kuno! Yours truly did the 3D work on the character, her backbling and the Falcon Glider to go along with that. :3

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/rAB32e

3D Artists: Andrea Orioli (character), David Fraaß (backbling) & Manuel Virks (Falcon Glider)

Concepts provided by the fine folks of the Fortnite team over at Epic Games. Thanks for having us! 😘

23/12/2020

In which we sign off for the holidays and leave 2020 behind by Airborn Studios

Hey, everyone! As we are slowly transitioning into holiday mode and semi-officially signing off for the year, it shall be noted: please be well, get through the holidays in whatever way you intended so that you'll return healthy and ready to kick some butt in 2021! 😬

As is tradition, we wrote a thing. You might want to check it out as you get to see our 2020 holiday artwork (once again) done by our Ilka Hesche. Also up in its full glory here: https://www.artstation.com/airbornstudios/albums/11482

Toodles! 😘

In which we look back at 2020 - and forward.

17/12/2020

Hello, hello! Another update this week? Whaaaaaat? Yes, there's still quite a bit of material in our backlog that hasn't been showcased here yet, so we shall switch into Fortnite portfolio mode today. Meet Callisto!

3D Artists:
Karina Bastos (character)
Mandy Waning (backbling)

ArtStation: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/68xz5W

Concept provided by the dreamy Fortnite team over at Epic Games. Thanks for having us! 🙌

16/12/2020

World of Warcraft: Shadowlands - Torghast Exploration, Airborn Studios

Oh hey again! Remember us talking about us having done some early concept work on World of Warcraft: Shadowlands? Ahem! --> https://bit.ly/2IW3wvZ .

We're delighted to share some of the work we did way back as the ladies and gentlemen of Blizzard kindly invited us to join today's ArtStation Shadowlands art blast. :3

The WoW crew had roped us in in the early stages of the development of the expansion to do a bit of concept work on Torghast, Tower of the Damned. And off we went to explore what some of the places and sections in the tower might look and feel like. The results of which you can find here: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/v2x0Q6

It's been an honor to be involved in WoW - once again big thanks to the team at Blizzard, especially Jeff Parrott and Ely Cannon!

Shout-out to the concept gang on our end:
Johannes Figlhuber (Lead)
Art of Jakob Eirich
Max Degen
Jean-Brice Dugait

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Oh hey there! We're delighted to add a new album to our portfolio today. :) The World of Warcraft team over at Blizzard had roped us in in the early stages of the development of WoW Shadowlands to do a bit of concept work on Torghast, Tower of the Damned. It's one of the new locations the expansion....

15/12/2020

Overwatch Winter Wonderland | Overwatch Seasonal Event

The treasured folks over at the Overwatch team at Blizzard are--reliably as always--kicking off Winter Wonderland today! New game mode and all that. And we got to do a thing or two, too. :3

Obviously, that also means that the previous Winter Wonderland skins are back in rotation as well. Including the sweet bits yours truly got to do 3D work on. 😊 See also: https://www.artstation.com/search?q=airbornowww&sort_by=date

Sleigh What?! Winter Wonderland is back!Unwrap a winter-themed of cosmetics, win weekly rewards, and freeze your foes in the new 4v4 game mode, Freezethaw El...

11/12/2020

Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond - Launch Trailer

Hello, hello! Just when you thought you were done with Airborn news for the week, those pesky Airbornians show up again to drop one more significant news nugget. GOTCHA.

Today we send over congratulatory virtual group hugs to the splendid ladies and gentlemen of Respawn Entertainment and EA - Electronic Arts as Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond got released! As you may know, the latest installment in the series is a bit of a 'back to the roots' project for the studio and was developed with Oculus as a VR experience. Some will remember that we already had done work (https://www.artstation.com/artwork/nQ29eo) with Respawn - which, more or less, was just prelude to our involvement in MoH. Our team got to contribute a good number of outfits to the game, and they'll hopefully pop up in our portfolio in all their high-res glory in the near future. :3 Thanks to the crew at Respawn for having us, in particular Jesse Sandifer and Kyle Dolan!

Shout-out to the artists who worked on this on our end: Patrick Schindler, Christian Fischer, Christian Rüsseler, Matthieu Schneider, Jacque Choi, Mariano Steiner and Kurt Papstein! ❤️

Well, that's it for now. Promised.

Have a good weekend, everyone!

Charge into history in Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond, the new VR first person shooter from Respawn Entertainment. https://www.oculus.com/medal-of-honor/ ...

10/12/2020

Hey, hey! Yours truly is SUPER-excited as today is the day we're slowly getting the portfolio drops of our work on Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time rolling! And why not start with the most adorable grouch of them all: Dingodile! :3

3D Character Artist:
Tim Moreels

ArtStation: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/XnxZ2D

Concept provided by the ever-fantastic folks of Toys for Bob and done by Nicholas Kole. 😘 3D work on Dingo's weapon done by TfB's Ed General. Also, as usual, big tip of the hat to the fine people who did the animation work! --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buG_4yRbECU

More to come! If you've missed the blog article on our work on Crash Bandicoot 4, feel free to check here: https://www.artstation.com/airbornstudios/blog/OmrE/in-which-we-talk-about-crash-bandicoot-4 .

08/12/2020

Well, hello out there! Since there's an info nugget or two we may not have mentioned over here yet, this might be an opportune moment for a quick news bundle. Shall we? Buckle up!

Firstly, the Art of Crash Bandicoot 4 is shipping today! You can order it at https://amzn.to/3lYjZwS or, probably, any book shop of your choice. As you should! Lots of neat concept goodness and behind-the-scenes intel to be had there, and yours truly is honored to have been a part of that. :3 Tip of the hat to Toys for Bob and (again!) Micky Neilson for their work on the art book! We'll share some impressions once the Mail Whale carrying our copy has made its way across the Atlantic. That's how this works, no?

Secondly, the lovely System Era Softworks crew released a new update for ASTRONEER! Includes a load of new content - among them another suit yours truly got to do 3D work on. ---> https://bit.ly/33RJWIm

Fortnite! Yes, of course. You've probably heard about that new season, and your fellow Airbornians got to contribute a few things as well, e.g. doing the low-poly work on the Mandalorian, his adorable ... 'backpack', and certain Gods of War. Ahem. Also, full 3D work on Mancake, Galaxia and the Bedhead Brigade Set! :3

If you're having a good time with the adorable gorillas that Supercell shipped as part of the latest Hay Day update, know that your fellow Airbornians had the pleasure of working on those! And a bunch of other bits! Also, Sally Nani and Choco Piper for Brawl Stars - yep, 3D work on them.

Last but not least: yours truly also did 3D work on four of the weapons in the Ion skin line our friends at Riot Games recently released for VALORANT. Looking shiny!

More news to follow later this week! 😘

02/12/2020

Hey, everyone! If you saw our previous Fortnite portfolio drop on Metal Mouth, you won't be entirely shocked to learn that yours truly did the 3D work on Zadie, too. :3 She also made her in-game debut earlier this year.

3D Character Artist:
Sandro Silva

ArtStation: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Krv12G

Concept provided by the sweet Fortnite team over at Epic Games. Thanks for having us! 😘

25/11/2020

Hey hey! In case you missed yesterday's World of Warcraft news --> https://bit.ly/364T6mt . BAM. Spoiler alert: we do have one more project announcement in store for this year. :3

In the meantime... back to portfolio business! Say hello to Metal Mouth, will ya? He joined the Fortnite ensemble earlier this year, and yours truly had the pleasure of working on him.

3D Character Artist:
Alexander Polovov

ArtStation: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/L3xwGP

Concept provided by the fine ladies and gentlemen of the Fortnite team over at Epic Games. Thanks for having us! 🙌

24/11/2020

Helloooooooo, you splendid folks out there!

Time for a bit of news! Pulled an all-nighter to fully dive into the freshly released World of Warcraft Shadowlands? Don't forget to peek into the credits because you may see some familiar names on top of the usual suspects. Yes, yours truly got to be involved very early on on the concept side of things to do some exploration work on the Tower of the Damned. :3

We haven't had the time yet to check out Shadowlands yet ourselves to see how the location ultimately turned out, but it's been an absolute privilege to have a go at the Warcraft universe. And thus, we gratefully tip our hats to the WoW team at Blizzard and, in particular, Ely Cannon and Jeff Parrott!

Shout-out to Johannes Figlhuber (Lead), JB Dugait, Jakob Eirich, Maximilian Degen for their work and to Boris Patschull and Alexandra Graap for providing internal input.

18/11/2020

Heyyyyyy there! Along with Dai-Tengu Hanzo, we got to contribute another bit to Overwatch Halloween Terror 2020: Karasu-Tengu Genji! :3

3D Character Artist: Alexandra Graap

ArtStation: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/0n6Nzw

© 2016 Blizzard Entertainment Inc.
Concepts & body base provided and weapon work done by the Overwatch team. As always: thanks for having us! 😘

16/11/2020

Hi there! Well, it's us again playing a bit of catch-up with our Fortnite portfolio backlog. Yours truly did the 3D work on Chaos Agent, his alternate version (pictured in the video linked below), and his backpack. :3 Enjoy!

3D Character Artist:
Vico Pancrazi

3D Prop Artist:
Sebastian Zimmermann

ArtStation: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/68eEKN
Video: https://youtu.be/eg8rbqxmLaU

Concepts provided by the Fortnite team over at Epic Games - who also did the VFX work on the liquid version. Thank you!

12/11/2020

Hello, people of Earth! It's not really that time of the year, but maybe today's Fortnite portfolio nugget will help prepare you mentally already because nothing gets one into the Easter mood quite like... er... a psycho bunny. Ahem. Meet Nitehare! :3

3D Artists:
Alexander Polovov
Sandro Silva (backpack)

ArtStation: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/rAvKm2

Concepts and base provided by the top-notch folks of the Fortnite team over at Epic Games. Nitehare concept done by Rich Carey .

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11/11/2020

How's it going, everyone? As you probably know by now, October = Halloween Terror Time in Overwatch. And your fellow Airbornians once again got to be involved thanks to the ever so lovely folks at Blizzard. Among other bits, we got to do the 3D work on Dai-Tengu Hanzo and his weapon! :3

3D Character Artists:
Steffen Unger (blockout, high-poly, low-poly)
Joao Sapiro Josue (bakes)
Alexandra Graap (textures)

3D Weapon Artist:
Alexander Delagrange

ArtStation: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/28Y1GK

© 2016 Blizzard Entertainment Inc.
Concepts & body base provided the Overwatch team. As always: thanks for having us! 😘

09/11/2020

Oh hey there, fellow friends! Ready for a 4-in-1 portfolio nugget drop? Because here's one! :3

Yours truly did 3D work on the Beastmode set for Fortnite a while ago. Happy to add this one to our gallery now! Meet Rhino, Jackal, Jaguar and Lion!

3D Character Artists:
Sandro Silva
Tim Moreels (support)
Steffen Unger (support)

3D Prop Artists:
Sandro Silva (blockout & high-poly)
Benjamin Sauder (high-poly, lowpoly & textures)

ArtStation: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/nYv4yK

Concepts provided by the sweet folks over in the Fortnite team at Epic Games.

04/11/2020

Oh hello!

Tempest is another Fortnite character we got to work on - he made his first appearance in the game in 2019. :3

3D Artist: Jan Wyss

ArtStation: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/aYOk1z

Concept provided and final VFX pass done by our friends over at Epic Games. Thanks for having us!

03/11/2020

Crash Bandicoot

Well, look at this grumpy fella!

Doing 3D work on Dingodile was pure joy! Big shout-out to Nicholas Kole for the wonderful concept, our Tim Moreels for doing the 3D magic, the animators for absolutely knocking it out of the park once our part was done, and, of course (!), Toys for Bob for making it possible in the first place!

And yours truly also did the concepts for the interior of Dingo's trailer. Expect Ilka Hesche's wonderful work on this to pop up in our portfolio eventually.

:3

How many would still go into Dingo's Diner?!? Would you be more afraid of the 🦇 or 🐊?

02/11/2020

Greeeeetings! We hope you had an adequately refreshing weekend and shall kick off this week with... a banana! How about that, huh?

Yours truly was fortunate enough to do the 3D work on another character that has entered the hall of Fortnite classics by now. Talk about mass appeel... [editor's note: GROAN]

3D Character Artists: Karinas Bastos & Dimi Devos (early blockout)

ArtStation: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/28OgYx

Concept provided by the fellow folks of the Fortnite team over at Epic. Thank youuuuuuu!

29/10/2020

Oh hey there! How about some more Fortnite goodness before the week is over? Ok? Sure? Alrighty!

Clutch is a Fortnite skin that got released last year as part of a markting collaboration, and yours truly had the honor of being involved on the 3D side of things. :3

3D Character Artist: Andrea Orioli

ArtStation: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/OoxaZv

Concept & base provided by the splending ladies and gentlemen of the Fortnite team at Epic Games. Thanks a bunch!

28/10/2020

Hello, hello, fellow Facebookians!

How about something more mobile for a change? Last year, the good people over at Supercell had tasked us to do a Clash Royale crossover skin for Brawl Stars - the result of which is Night Witch Mortis! :3

Concept Artists: Guille Garcia & Mario Manzanares (support)
3D Character Artist: Jonas Kunert

ArtStation: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/d8eLBw

As always: virtual high-five to the Brawl team in Helsinki for having us!

27/10/2020

G'day, everyyyyyyone! Meet Copper Wasp - a fella that made his Fortnite debut last year. We had the pleasure doing 3D work on him and his backpack. :3

3D Character Artist: Tairo Fialho

3D Prop Artists:
Tairo Fialho (blockout & HP)
Victor-Emmanuel Pancrazi (HP, LP & textures)

ArtStation: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/d8e8bW

Concepts & character base provided by our friends over at Epic Games. Thanks!

21/10/2020

HELLO, HUMANS. Or so would our latest portfolio entry say. 🤖Meet ED EE - a Legendary Constructur that made its debut in Fortnite: Save the World last year. :3 Your fellow Airbornians got to do the 3D work on this chap and the backpack.

3D Artists:
Victor-Emmanuel Pancrazi (character)
David Fraaß (backpack)

ArtStation: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Nx2VEd

Concepts provided by the sweet Fortnite team over at Epic Games. Tip of the hat as always!

19/10/2020

Heyyyyyy, everyone! We hope you had a superb weekend! Time to get into the work groove again with a bit of Fortnite portfolio candy since we haven't posted anything on that front in a while. Still super-busy contributing to the game though. :3

Grim Fable was added to the game last year - and yours truly had the pleasure of doing the 3D work on her and her backpack.

3D Character Artist: Alexander Polovov
3D Prop Artist: Mandy Waning

ArtStation: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/R3aNXm

Concepts provided by the jolly folks over at Epic Games. As always, thanks a bunch for having us!

16/10/2020

In order to celebrate the kick-off of the new Overwatch League season, our friends over at Blizzard released shiny new skins. And yours truly got to do the 3D work on them!

On ArtStation: https://www.artstation.com/airbornstudios/albums/27636

#overwatch #gameart #3dart #lucio #mercy #overwatchleague #reinhardt

13/10/2020

In order to celebrate the kick-off of the new Overwatch League season, our friends over at Blizzard released shiny new skins. And yours truly got to do the 3D work on them!

On ArtStation: https://www.artstation.com/airbornstudios/albums/27636

#overwatch #gameart #3dart #lucio #mercy #overwatchleague