Concept art

Within the games development team there are concept artists. Concept artists create the characters in form of sketching simple and detailed pictures to help developers create characters and environments. They also provide blueprints for all the other artists and to inspire them to develop the concept further. They may have the developers to put it in different environments to see if the concept of size and to see if it is suitable. Here are a few examples of concept art from great titles like Halo 3 for Xbox 360 and Bioshock 2 for the same console and also PS3.