陈敦煌：国际新锐赛博艺术家、美国游戏概念前卫设计天才

2024年02月27日 04:42 美中时报丹尼尔

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陈敦煌，国际新锐赛博艺术家、美国游戏概念前卫设计师，2018年毕业于美国加州设计中心艺术学院（Art CenterCollege of Design）的插画（illustration）专业，目前作为全职游戏概念设计师就职于美国加州的游戏公司ShareCreators Studio。自2017年至今参与多个AAA游戏的概念设计工作，进行赛博艺术的创作引起了中外设计艺术界的好评与关注，并分别参加了2021年的纽约当代国际艺术博览会、2022年和2023年洛杉矶 Light Box Expo设计艺术博览会，同时获得2023年世界华人美术金笔奖（国际艺术交流贡献奖），并在2023年第81届世界科幻大会上举办“混元体Ⅱ—陈龙阙、陈敦煌艺术展”。

国际新锐艺术家陈敦煌荣获2023年世界华人美术金笔奖的“助力国际艺术交流贡献奖”

陈敦煌曾经就读中国中央美术学院动漫专业，人物塑造细腻情感饱满，在大三时，与他人合作创作动漫作品《母亲》，获得学院三等奖。特别是通过美国艺术中心设计学院的专业学习后，接受了多元娱乐文化的精髓，作品创作更注重游戏与科幻中角色概念设计的灵动感和文化感，其中结合了当下动漫科幻的流行元素进行创作，将肉体与机械结合带来一种美妙的旋律与张力，使每个赛博文化的角色设计既赋予了人性化的温度感，同时也具有工业化的金属特质的现代感。在毕业展上，作为优秀作品和胞兄的作品一起在学校进行展出。陈敦煌的作品从古希腊人物赛博文化的塑造，到现代人类赛博文化的设计，既充满了三次元的人物空间设计的严谨性，同时也弥漫着赛博文化炫酷的华丽感，创造出极具人文特征的、现代感极强的赛博文化时代肖像。

艺术轨迹

陈敦煌自2021年入职加州Share CreatorsStudio以来，视野与格局大开，其中参与顶尖级的游戏中的角色、场景和道具等设计，受到公司的肯定与鼓励。作为国际新锐赛博艺术家、美国游戏概念前卫设计师，他凭借自身文化的兼容性与超越性激发出的潜在创作才能，分别参与了全球众多顶尖的游戏项目设计，如美国“暴雪”的项目《暗黑破坏神——不朽》，中国腾讯天美项目《王者荣耀》，还有全球流行的韩国Krafton工作室开发的《绝地反击》（PUBG）项目等等。众所周知《暗黑破坏神——不朽》系列作品享誉世界，《王者荣耀》在中国有7亿左右的玩家推举（2023年中国百度网络信息统计数据），而《绝地反击》更是一直时是steam平台上在线人数最多的游戏之一。这些项目在游戏行业内遥遥领先并获得巨大成功，它们都是顶尖游戏设计，需要扎实的设计基础和创作才能。

作品创意卓尔不群

工作之余的陈敦煌喜欢赛博艺术创作，其赛博艺术风格深受游戏设计艺术的影响，但是更凸显人文精神。陈敦煌的赛博艺术擅长的是暗黑风格中的角色设计，特别是在暗黑风格的赛博文化善恶的较量中，善与美的同行是创作的重点也是亮点。如他的作品《国风NO1》，赛博女战士一身白色的盔甲，身上有多条机械臂加持，低头垂目的静穆与优雅，俨然就是一个赛博观音。在背景为中国佛教“千手佛观音”慈悲与大爱的主题诠释的现场环境烘托中，佛教观音与赛博观音完美地嵌合在同一空间，此时，人类情感的暖意与温馨，将大爱无疆的主题得以升华。除了“赛博观音”的大爱无疆，作品《女神》，其中“基督教的女战士”布善除恶的赛博人文气质也是十分惊艳。尽管背景是撒旦恶魔的地狱图景，但是主体女性妩媚而目光坚毅的脸庞与金属特质的身体材质完美地融合，一手持着“神灯”，一手握着剑，血光剑影中的赛博女战士作为正义的化身，表达出了在现实与未来世界善恶斗争中的决绝意志。

独特的艺术视觉

如果说，陈敦煌作品中女性赛博被赋予了肉身美丽与金属特质的人机合体的奇异效果，散发着一种被理想化的智慧与智能生物体混元体的魅力，那么在陈敦煌的男性角色设计更凸显数字化的理性与机械感的硬朗。如数码艺术作品《刀锋战士》，完美的赛博朋克的体型与精神气度，数字艺术虚拟化的面部，泛着神秘、深邃而忧郁的目光，手持两把利剑，塑造了代表着善意与一切邪恶势力决一雌雄的战士形象。在陈敦煌的手绘作品中，持剑也持盾的男性肩胛关节处，用冷面炫酷的生物面具装饰，雄性与野性十足的奇异想象与设计，整合了所有生命力度的赛博文化格局令每个观者惊叹不已！正如陈敦煌所言：“我将人体、自然与机械等元素融合在一起，让美丽的身躯具有软科幻的人性温暖，同时具有硬科幻的机械美感。我的很多画作反映出这样的设计理念，即一种混元体的未来生命的幻想。”

ChenDunhuang: The cybernetic humanistic temperament in the Hunyuan style.

As a senior concept designer, Chen Dunhuang hasparticipated in numerous top game projects worldwide, such as Blizzard's"Diablo Immortal," Tencent Tianmei's "King of Glory," andthe globally popular "PUBG" project. It is well known that the"Diablo" series enjoys worldwide acclaim, "King of Glory"has approximately 700 million players in China (according to Baidu NetworkInformation in 2023), and "PUBG" is one of the most played games onthe Steam platform. These projects are leading in the gaming industry and haveachieved tremendous success. They all require solid design foundations andtalent. Since joining California's Share Creators Studio in 2021, ChenDunhuang's vision has expanded greatly. He has been involved in designingcharacters, scenes, props, and more for top-tier games, receiving recognitionand encouragement from the company. As early as 2017, during his studies at LosAngeles Art Center College of Design in the United States, Chen Dunhuang wasalready involved in conceptual design for multiple AAA games and gainedwidespread influence to further expand his creative thinking. Currently workingfull-time as a concept designer at Share Creators Studio in California, ChenDunhuang's creation of cyber art during his spare time has garnered praise andattention from both domestic and foreign design communities. He hasparticipated in various exhibitions including the 2021 New York ContemporaryInternational Art Fair, the 2022-2023 Los Angeles Light Box Expo Design ArtFair, and the 81st World Science Fiction Convention held in 2023. Additionallyhe has had three solo exhibitions both offline and online. Chen Dunhuang'scyber art style is deeply influenced by game design art while highlightinghumanistic spirit.

Chen Dunhuang excels in character design in cyber art,and the struggle between good and evil in the dark cyber culture. Goodness isnot only the high point of creation, but also the visual focus and highlight ofcreation along with beauty. For example, his work "ExperimentalSubject", a cyber female warrior wearing white armor with multiplemechanical arms, has a serene and elegant posture when bowing her head. She islike a cyber Guanyin. In the background of the live environment depicting thetheme of compassion and great love of Chinese Buddhism's "Thousand-ArmedAvalokitesvara", Buddhist Guanyin and cyber Guanyin fit perfectly into thesame space. At this moment, the warmth and tenderness of human emotions elevatethe theme of boundless love.

In addition to the boundless love of "cyberGuanyin", his work "Goddess" showcases an impressivecyber-humanistic temperament for a Christian female warrior who does good deedsto eliminate evil. Although set against a hellish scene with Satan demons asbackground, her feminine yet determined face blends perfectly with her metallicbody material. With one hand holding a "divine lamp" and anothergripping a sword, she embodies justice as a cyber female warrior amidstbloodshed shadows, expressing resolute determination in struggles between goodand evil in both reality and future worlds.

If, in Chen Dunhuang's works, the female cyborgs areendowed with a strange effect of combining physical beauty and metallic traits,emitting a charm that idealizes both wisdom and intelligent beings; then inChen Dunhuang's male character designs, the rationality of digitization and thetoughness of mechanical sensation are highlighted. In his digital art piece"Blade Warrior," the perfect cyberpunk physique and spiritualdemeanor, along with the virtualized facial features of digital art, exude amysterious, profound, and melancholic gaze. Holding two sharp swords, itcreates an image of a warrior representing goodwill confronting all evilforces. In Chen Dunhuang's hand-drawn works, at the shoulder joints where menhold both swords and shields, cool biological masks adorn their cold faces. Theintegration of masculine wildness and bizarre imagination embodies the cyberculture pattern that encompasses all vitality levels-leaving every vieweramazed! As Chen Dunhuang said: "I merge elements such as human body,nature, and machinery together to give beautiful bodies a warm touch of softscience fiction while also possessing the aesthetic appeal of hard sciencefiction. Many of my artworks reflect this design concept—a fantasy about futurelife as a hybrid entity."

Chen Dunhuang once studied animation at the ChinaCentral Academy of Fine Arts. His character creation is delicate and full ofemotions. Especially after studying at the Art Center College of Design in theUnited States, he has absorbed the essence of diverse entertainment cultures.His artwork focuses more on the dynamic and cultural aspects of characterconcept design in games and science fiction. It combines popular elements fromcontemporary anime and sci-fi to create a wonderful melody and tension bycombining flesh with machinery, giving each cyber culture character design ahumanistic warmth as well as an industrial metallic feel. From shaping cyberculture characters in ancient Greek mythology to modern human cyber culture,his work is not only rigorous in three-dimensional character spatial design butalso filled with coolness and grandeur that represents cyber culture, creatingportraits that are highly modern yet possess strong humanistic characteristicsin this era of cyber culture.