Trion has a pretty amazing art department, and Storm Legion showcases that fact well. The art team posted a whole slew of Storm Legion concept art drawings on the Polycount forums recently, which is a community geared toward video game artists and designers. Some of the pieces have been shared by Trion’s art team previous to the expansion’s launch, but others are new. All in all, the collection is a pretty fantastic source of eye candy for fans of RIFT’s artwork and overall design.

To check it out, follow this link to the Polycount forums. As a warning, the thread’s rather large. Make sure to scroll down to see everything.

The team at GamesRadar got a chance to conduct an interview with RIFT’s art director, Darren Pattenden, and associate art director, Chee Fong. During the interview, they talk about RIFT’s artwork and some of the magic that goes on behind the scenes, what inspirations are behind Trion’s vision of Brevane and Dusken, and what direction Storm Legion’s art is heading towards. Here’s one of the questions that was asked:

GamesRadar: The idea of “magical technology” is fairly common in RPGs, how did Trion make its style different?

Chee Fong: We designed it from the ground up. We’ll avoid cliché where we can, but there is bound to be inspiration to be drawn from classic depictions of it like perhaps the movie ‘The Dark Crystal’. Ultimately however, we wanted to sell the new world and impress the audience so we concentrated more on that than consciously trying to avoid anything that had been done before. We created an original culture in the Defiants for example and tailored the look to that culture. So really we’ve just been enjoying being creative and having fun with it.

Storm Legion definitely has that unique factor. For the full interview, check it out here.

We received some new Storm Legion concept art yesterday, this time in the form of some pretty creepy-looking bad guys! As always, Trion’s art team came up with some amazing stuff. The level of detail on these guys is quite impressive. See the title image for a sampling.

Once again we’ve collected an awesome arrangement of new concept art from RIFT: Storm Legion, our first expansion – when it arrives this fall you’ll discover the tainted lands of Dusken & Brevane.

Teeming with planar foes the blight of the Blood Storm has begun to reshape the very ground of Telara!

The Art of Storm Legion – New Foes Emerge!

Check out the official news article on RIFT’s site for all four images.

Two pieces of artwork have been released from the upcoming comic, “Telara Chronicles” from Wildstorm. Telara Chronicles is an upcoming four part series that “follows Asha Catari’s story [where you can] discover the war-ravaged world of Telara”.