Nexon holds a game art exhibition named ‘BORDERLESS’ and introduces five characters of <Mabinogi 2> for the first time on the 20th of January. Thisisgame visited there and shot a following video.
<Mabinogi 2> characters are featured in an installation work called <Campfire>, displaying five digital characters around a digital campfire. This work hanging between reality and virtual world also represents the theme of the exhibition, ‘BORDERLESS’.
The video shows in-game characters, not CG work. Look how delicate and detailed their hands, face, and hairs are. Each character has an unique class-mage, warrior, bard, archer, etc-but the class names are not official yet.
JinHoon Lee who is in charge of visual part of <Mabinogi 2> project did all the work. He commented “I chose the campfire because it is a typical community feature of <Mabinogi>. Though each character seems pretty ordinary respectively, they impress us something hovering between the reality and the virtual world when they are laid together in an analogue place.”
Nexon is to hold the game art exhibition every year through an experimental project ‘NX Art Lab’. Six of Nexon Korea DevCat Studio developers prepared number of works about <Mabinogi>.
