"ArenaNet's Guild Wars 2 is a strange beast. On the one hand, it's a painterly MMO that feels like concept art come to life. On the other hand, it's a fashion sandbox where players obsess over gliders, capes, and shinier-than-thou legendary weapons. Holding those two worlds together? Artists like Chelsea Mills, Advanced Prop Artist, although, as she points out in our interview, that title's a bit misleading."
"It's a Swiss Army skillset that lets Chelsea leave her mark on the game's sprawling world of Tyria in ways most players don't even realise, until they zoom in on the stitching of a leather strap or spot the logo on a humble apple crate. It's here, inside the hidden art of Guild Wars 2, that her craft really comes alive."
""So I faked it," Chelsea grins. "It's actually dangling from a hilariously long skeleton rig with physics applied. Totally bodged, but it worked, and it looked amazing.""
Chelsea Mills is an Advanced Prop Artist at ArenaNet who builds a wide variety of in-game assets, including weapons, chairs, creatures, and armour. Her responsibilities span concept refinement, modeling, physics setup, rigging, texturing, and minor visual effects. She prioritizes filling aesthetic and fashion gaps, targeting themes like holy knights, sinister mages, and underrepresented weapon colors. She draws from extensive reference collections and takes technical gambles when systems lack desired features. For example, she simulated a following creature by attaching a snake-like model to an elongated skeleton rig with physics. Her detailed work appears in subtle touches across Tyria, enhancing the hand-crafted feel.
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