What is the difference between concept art and production art?
Concept art explores a design before it is built: quick, loose thumbnails and paintovers that lock a silhouette, a palette or a mood before anyone commits modelling or animation time to it. Production art is what ships — the final illustration, the model sheet, or the texture sheet the rest of the pipeline builds from directly. A concept artist is judged on how many usable directions they generate quickly; a production artist is judged on finish and consistency with a locked style. Some studios do both, but the two are different skills, and a strong concept portfolio does not by itself prove production polish, or the reverse.
