Tristan Reidford
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Tristan Reidford is a conceptual artist who works at Valve.
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Biography[edit]
Currently living in Seattle, Reidford attended Coventry University.[1] He used to do independent contract work for Free Radical Design, Jones Garrard Move and Valve, until he was hired by the latter in 2007. He models and textures with Maya.[1]
Work[edit]
Reidford specifically worked with Ted Backman and Jeremy Bennett on concept art for Half-Life 2: Episode Three, showing a Gordon Freeman confronting an Advisor, which was selected for the 2008 Into the Pixel Collection. He also designed the two robots appearing in Portal 2’s co-operative campaign, ATLAS and P-body,[2] Fetchbot from The Lab,[3] and the Combine Fabricator from Half-Life: Alyx.
Selected gameography[edit]
- Half-Life 2: Episode Two (2007)
- Portal (2007)
- Portal 2 (2011)
- The Lab (2016)
- Half-Life: Alyx (2020)
Gallery[edit]
Half-Life: Episode Three[edit]
Collaborative concept art for Episode Three.
Portal 2[edit]
Concept art for ATLAS and P-body.
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70s style movie poster for Portal 2.
Wallpaper variant.
Sketches for the 70s style movie poster.
Furnace pit concept.
Half-Life: Alyx[edit]
"Bright and dry" City 17.
"Dark and rainy" City 17.
Early idea for the construction of the Citadel.
Combine Fabricator render.
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References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4
Tristan Reidford on LinkedIn
- ↑ Redesigning Portal: Valve’s Artist Speaks on Game Informer (March 22, 2010) (archived)
- ↑ Mike Belzer on Fetchbot's creators (August 17, 2020)
