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Craig Mullins Tencent Art for Age of Empires

Craig Mullins art for Age of Empires Mobile

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Dec 31, 2024 — 2 min read

I recently played Age of Empires mobile and found some of the splash screen artworks featuring Crag Mullins. Its a very distintive painting style with oil and digital.

Some of the artwork he showed on his socials and website seem to be used just for loading screens.

Not sure if he is affected by AI but I think there has been a slow down in work.

Here is the Twitter Thread last year on him reflecting on the lack of jobs.

This one went through weeks of self-imposed revisions. How he is holding the arrow seems to be correct from what I can find, don't know how you would hold that much tension like that.

I am currently looking for work. I can send CV etc if you want and are interested. pic.twitter.com/DEZqy2MMpe
— Craig Mullins (@craigmullins3) October 20, 2023

Maybe making art for games and movies won’t be the same and it’s maybe time to just breakout and do your own thing.

There was talk about his work at Tencent on Age of Empires, where it seems he had creative difference with the team on the illustrations. But it looked like he was given quite a lot of freedoms.