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| D.I.C.E. Award for Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction | |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences |
| First awarded | 1998 |
| Currently held by | Alan Wake 2 |
| Website | www |
The D.I.C.E. Award for Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction is an award presented annually by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences during the D.I.C.E. Awards. This award is "presented to the individual or team whose work represents the highest level of achievement in designing a unified graphic look for an interactive title".[1] Creative/technical Academy members with expertise as an artist, animator or programmer are qualified to vote for this award.[2]
The award's most recent winner is Alan Wake 2, developed by Remedy Entertainment and published by Epic Games.
Art Direction & Animation
The Academy originally offered the Outstanding Achievement in Art/Graphics at the first two annual awards ceremonies.[3][4] This would be separated into the categories of Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction and Outstanding Achievement in Animation at the third annual awards ceremony.[5][6] Since the categories separated, roughly half of the finalists and winners for "Art Direction" and "Animation" were the same game within its respective release year. The games that had won both awards for "Art Direction" and "Animation" were:
- Final Fantasy VIII
- Final Fantasy IX
- Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus
- Half-Life 2
- Gears of War
- Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
- Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception
- The Last of Us
- Ori and the Blind Forest
- Cuphead
- Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
- God of War Ragnarök
The games that won the "Art Direction" award but were not finalists in the "Animation" category were:
- Ico
- The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
- BioShock
- LittleBigPlanet
- Journey
- Monument Valley
- Control
- Ghost of Tsushima
- Alan Wake 2
2022 was the only year that the "Art Direction" and "Animation" categories had the same five finalists and winner.
Winners and nominees
1990s
| Indicates the winner |