The Art of Heroes 3

Oakley · Leprechaun

Hi guys!! I'm new to the forums, although long time member in the website itself smile_teeth

More than being a huge fan of the gameplay, I'm a huge fan of the unique art and music atmosphere in Heroes 3 which inspired me since I first played it. I'm mostly collecting images from it, including original illustrations, sketches, 3D Etc.

Most of the art can be found in the personal websites of the artists, such as the lead artist Phelan Sykes and the rest like George Almond, April Lee and Brian Kemper.

If you are interest, please visit the artists' personal websties for more unique art!!

Phelan Sykes
http://www.phelansykes.com/

George Almond
http://members.aol.com/gcalmond/GA_hm.htm
http://georgealmondillustration.com/

Jeff Bigman
http://home.pacbell.net/bbigman/
http://bigmanart.com/

Rebecca Christel
http://www.illustratz.com/

John E. Gibson IV
http://jgibsoniv.com/

Louis Henderson
http://complementarycolor.com/index_v1.htm

Tracy Iwata
http://tygriff.tripod.com/project/index.html
*Sadly, Tracy Iwata had many more art in the past, which can be partial found with the Internet Archive. If someone here still have her early art, please let me know!!
From the Internet Archive:

Steve Jasper
http://hound-of-war.deviantart.com/

Brian Kemper
http://www.timetoyagers.com/bkemper/

April Lee
http://members.tripod.com/~AprilLee/index.html

Kenneth Thomson Jr.
http://www.demonslayers.org/

Tony Rizo
http://www.tonyrizo.com/

and the last one, Steve Wasaff
http://www.stevewasaff.com/
http://web.archive.org/web/20040613091731/home.earthlink.net/~wasaff/

As for the rest artists, I couldn't find any art of them...

let's don't forget about our masters of music!! Paul Romero, Rob King and Steve Baca
http://www.greenstreetstudios.net

If you have more art of Heroes 3, please post here!! smile_teeth

Sorry for the crappy English if you can drama

Thanks!!

Akul · CH Staff

Thanks for the links to H3&4 art smile

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Dracomancer · Leprechaun

Wow, I hadn't seen these before. Thanks! thumbs up

Edit: There's some MM stuff in there too:

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Metathron · Round Table Hero

Welcome to our little asylum, Oakley.

Thanks for sharing! thumbs up

theLuckyDragon · Moderator

Yes, welcome to the Round Table and thanks for sharing, first of all smile

Heh, some pretty nice art over there. I didn't know the Grail for the Forge was supposed to be a Tesla Coil.

This looks strange, I don't think it would have fitted the theme.

The book over here looks really nice. The way it's opening kinda forebodes the serie's bright future smile

Here are some spell icons from H4 I haven't seen before. Does anybody know what's with the images from row 11/column 1 and row 10/column 5?
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Metathron · Round Table Hero

I like that alternative Dungeon town a lot; I actually prefer this one to the one in the game.

theLuckyDragon · Moderator

I think it's too colourful. Especially the blue and the pink.
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UndeadHalfOrc · Rakshasa

Welcome, Oakley. Awesome art.

Glad someone likes the H3 art. Most people here seem to prefer H2 or H4 art dontknow

Metathron · Round Table Hero

Up close, the HoMM III art is great, like these dragons here for example.

What I tend to dislike are the bland, blurry creature portraits that just fade in comparison to the other games in the series.

ThunderTitan · Round Table Hero

H2 still looks tonnes better... but these are better then most other games at the time.
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Oakley · Leprechaun

Thanks all of you!! smile

ThunderTitan · Round Table Hero

while i don't think H3's renders are very great, you're right about being better the most of H4's...

But not all of H4's suck... case in point:

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Akul · CH Staff

@Oakley:
Art is not subjective. Everyone has his own tastes.
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Metathron · Round Table Hero

So it IS subjective.

In those pictures, HoMM III sure beats IV, but the thing is you never get to see the creatures like that, in either case. In-game, the HoMM III creatures are far less detailed and kinda hazy-looking, while the HoMM IV ones look much better when they're not up close and personal which is how they appear in the game.

For me, HoMM IV has got the better style in many areas; off the top of my head, heroes and adventure map locations. Just look at these dwellings:

And they look even better ingame, especially if found on the adventure map, as can be the case with dwellings and those magic shrines. Divine!