Nikola Gramatikov Translates Concepts into Experience.
Nikola Gramatikov is a Lead Character Artist over at Bon Art Studio in Bulgaria, an Outsource Art Studio well known for the high quality of its work and Nikola is definitely no exception to that. He was a student at the National Academy of Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria and has been working in the industry for over ten years in some form or another with a high degree of freelancing in there.
Nikola shows a fantastic hand at taking concepts and molding them into a beautiful game ready asset. Some of the work he has done for Sea of Thieves varies between the incredibly weird to the stylized mundane and he nails each one incredibly well. From the barnacles on the rifle above, the dents and story on the sword below he tells the story that makes people sit up and notice.
Props that make a player stop and look at it closer, to think “Yeah I am going to save up for that” and Nikola helps create that experience.
Give him a look on Instagram and see what he Pins.
Professional readers can have a look at his LinkedIn.