Kingdom Under Fire: The Artwork

[Gryphic]

I've been a fan of Crusaders and Heroes character design for years, and for years also wanted to get a hold of the bulk of it. And since I'm sure there are others around like me, after finding a couple of the artists who worked on the game, I thought I'd post it here!

Jungsic "Ropie" Park [ropie.com] , lead illustrator (Don't look past bone dragon to avoid spoilers)

Ilhawn "Hotduck" Yoon [www.artstation.com]

Might be helpful for modders in upping the res of portraits. Fun fact! Apparently Rupert had a cool Regnier looking helmet in concept art, Regnier looks weird without his hood, and Ropie also designed for Ninety Nine Nights.

[Val]

Cool links, thanks.

[DarkCow]

Cool stuff, thanks for sharring !

[0 SH00B3RT 0]

Nice find.

[DrewUniverse]

This is an important find for the community! I have also been working on artwork retrieval, starting with the official content from the old website. I have history doing this for Legend of Dragoon over several years - I'm confident we can put together a unified collection of known concept art, renders, wallpapers, etc. - for official works and eventually fan creations.

[LC]

Sadly like many parts of the UI, portraits are not easy to mod to look sharper because of resolution restrictions. I had tried before to use some of those images as a portrait mod but vanilla portraits ended up looking better and more clear in my opinion. Only thing to do with portraits and other UI elements right now to make them look (just slightly) better is using an upscaler to remove compression artifacts. Maybe in the future

[Cresimir]

Great find. I've been curious about the artists behind KUF2 recently, and tried to find out if the artists from the previous games were on board. Although, it seems to me that the art direction took a big change in KUF2; too 'fantastical' and cartoony for my liking.

The Crusaders and Heroes had the perfect blend of authenticity, grittiness and fantasy in its art style, which was pretty groundbreaking for me back in 2004. The presence of chainmail and gambeson was awesome, especially considering the typical approach to fantasy aesthetic even nowadays.

[Gryphic]

@DrewUniverse Yeah, I've been doing the same for KUF for a few years but haven't been able to get ahold of everything, namely the actual character portraits that don't use their concept art (if they even exist outside the game.)

@Cresimir I agree wholeheartedly. KUF, Warhammer, and the Souls series are my staples of what I like to see of fantasy, and I was very disappointed when I saw the nu KUF II look versus the original footage showed 10 years ago.