2011 Into the Pixel winners (photos)
Every year since 2004, the Into the Pixel exhibition contest invites published video game artists to submit their best artwork. The results are stunning, as shown in our full gallery of the selected winners.
Amorphous Drake
Every year, a large pool of professional video game (console and computer) artists from the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences come together in an art exhibition called Into the Pixel.
The best entries are chosen in part to celebrate the incredible art of video games, and all are simply mesmerizing. Some major titles and studios are represented in the winning group of 17 images, such as BioShock Infinite, Mass Effect 2, Ratchet and Clank: All 4 One, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, and many more. The winning entries were selected by a group of five jurors made up of senior figures on the artistic side of the video game industry.
This slide: Lucas Graciano, an artist on Sony Online Entertainment's Legends of Norrath, portrays a dragon that may have run out of options. Created with Photoshop.