ME Warcry Interviews MEO Art Director Chris Clay

During Turbine Nation 2004, there were two presentations on Middle-Earth Online; one on concept art, and the other on quest design. Each presentation was given by a panel of developers. In the first session (on the Art Panel), was a man named Chris Clay, whom we all know and love from the Official Forums as Hakai. Author of Dev Diaries on creating monsters and housing, he and his team are bringing to life the world of Middle-earth with some of the most gorgeous visuals ever seen in an MMORPG, and through ME Warcry he will tell you how!

How long would you say, on average, it takes a single artist to complete piece of work? We know some art projects are bigger then others like boats or housing to swords and armor.

That's a hard number to come up with but I would say probably around a week. Some things like weapons can be finished in a half day, while some projects can take more than a month.