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Art direction · Fantasy strategy

Battleline Tactics

A mobile strategy game made at Wargaming.

Creative & art direction · Wargaming
The Battleline Tactics fantasy cast, led by an armoured knight holding a sword and shield.
The Battleline Tactics cast.

Art direction at Wargaming.

I led the creative and art direction for Battleline Tactics at Wargaming's Berlin studio. We had a small core team working with a wider group of artists.

The art guide helped us keep the characters consistent. It covered sculpted forms, deliberate curves and controlled asymmetry, with examples artists could use in their own work.

Artwork & process

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A Battleline Tactics character style guide explaining sculpted forms, intent, curves and asymmetry beside a warrior.
An extract from the character art guide.
Battleline Tactics artwork combining a gold-armoured character, a vertical battlefield, and several fantasy character designs.
Characters, battlefield and visual development.
A lineup of unpainted Battleline Tactics character sculpts, including warriors, skeletons and large creatures.
The cast in sculpted form.
Four Battleline Tactics arenas with contrasting architecture, colour palettes and a top-down game view.
Arena designs and the battlefield in play.
Front, side and back views of three Battleline Tactics characters, including a skeleton warrior and two large fantasy creatures.
Character turnarounds.
A Battleline Tactics art-guide page showing clipped shapes, rounded corners and defined construction in armour and leather details.
Shape and construction details from the art guide.
The Battleline Tactics style-guide cover, with a large painted rock against a teal and sand-coloured background.
The style guide.