New Command & Conquer 4 Concept Art Discovered

[Alex06 39]

A concept artist with the first name Anthony, that used to work at EA, has released some of his work. On his website, you can find artwork pieces for 2 Red Alert 3: Uprising aircraft, and 7 Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight units, most of which did not make it in the final version of the game.

Without further ado, you can click the links below to view each image.

• Allied Harbinger Gunship
• GDI Condor (Firehawk)
• GDI Conqueror
• GDI Granger Jeep
• GDI Hyena
• GDI Interceptor
• Nod Firefly
• Nod Jackal
• Japanese Giga Fortress

You may also see the rest of the artist's portfolio on his website.

[Nyerguds 102]

The Firefly squad design seems really dumb, tbh... exposed torso and head?

[Sonic 296]

Tiberian Twilight had some crazy unit ideas, especially for Nod. But if this had been in game it probably wouldn't have gone down well with the hardcore fans....

 

[Johnnyxp64 20]

watching that amazing art for cnc4, makes you think what potentials this game had.... too bad for the final outcome.

 

[Chimas 7]

Is CNC4 good for modding?

[Plok 327]

 

• Allied Harbinger Gunship
• Japanese Giga Fortress

Fixed names. Saw them a lot earlier, too.

[PurpleGaga27 40]

I wish some of those GDI units are in C&C3.

 

So the GDI Condor is the Firehawk (like the original name better) and the GDI Hyena is the Hunter (strange why it wasn't called the Howitzer). Neither the Conquerer nor the Interceptor made it to the game.

 

As for that Nod Jackal, it looked more like the modified version of the Allied Future Tank X-1.

[Nmenth 291]

watching that amazing art for cnc4

I hope you were being sarcastic... sadly, I don't think you were...

 

That concept is almost as bad as the worm man.

[Plok 327]

Well, you can't say it's ALL bad... I kinda like the Condor/Firehawk Mk. II.

[Gben 20]

I agree with Johnny - the GDI artwork is great - and C&C4 could've been better...

 

Firefly squad is an infantry unit - so exposed torso is normal.

What's stupid is the lever - whether it's an accelerator/throttle or what I assume is a firing mechanism.

[HOPE1134 28]

The Jackal looks pretty badass!

[Chimas 7]

I've asked about modding, because although I enjoyed some units, they still look like toys in some aspects.

Check here some designs at dA for comparison.

I'm really referring to style, nothing wrong with the competence of the artist, given he is responding to a specific product development or briefing.

Edited October 23, 2013 by Solo

[Plok 327]

@Solo - C&C4 cannot be modded itself (except for an experiment with the GUI by the WrathEd team), but as far as I know, you can extract assets from the game's files and incorporate them to C&C3 or RA3 with some alterations. There are some tools available here.

[Golan 6]

Some nice artwork there! I'm sure I've seen the Harbinger, APC/Tank and Firehawk before, are they rereleases?

Loving that GDI style! A shame CC4 doesn't look as cool. Though it's probably good the Nod designs weren't used...

 

@Solo

Asuka was working on getting his SDK to support CC4 as well - I am sure to have seen a proof of principle screen from a small mod (very small) but perhaps he's advanced that the capabilities further yet.