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ORO premium edition, by Björn HURRI

crowdfunding campaign is happening right now on Kickstarter, from August 4th to September 3rd!

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AuthorBjörn Hurri
PublisherEditions Caurette
BindingHardcover
Number of pages248
Height (cm)21
Width (cm)21
Thickness (cm)1.5
Weight (kg)1.5
LanguageEnglish
Release date03/2023
ISBN9791096315970

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"I think that the age-old classic symbol of balance, the yin and yang, good against evil, light on the opposite side of darkness, and so on has a lot of meaning in storytelling and also in life. It is something that is fundamental in how we navigate and survive in the world. Abominations already touched on that subject and were blurring the line of where a character can settle on that spectrum. With this book, ORO, I wanted to explore that notion in a character or monsters. Will an inherently good character have an evil side to it? Is a character that is pure of heart a weakness in a world of brutality or is a ruthless destroyer actually a creator of something positive? Oro is a place of violence, greed, love, hate, heroism, and betrayal but most of all the chaotic balance and nature of the duality of that what lies underneath the surface."

Björn Hurri on ORO

About the author

Björn Hurri is an award-winning concept artist and art director. He has worked for all major publishers and with over 100+ titles (among them games like Horizon: Zero Dawn, Alien Isolation, God of War 4, Dishonored, League of Legends, and many more). He has also been teaching artists since 2008 and he taught a highly popular character design class at CG Master Academy. Björn has shared his knowledge in lectures and demos at 15+ workshops and events in multiple countries and to thousands of people.

Aside from all this, he is cultivating a community under the banner of 30min Warmup where he is teaching his approaches every morning as well as on his Discord server. He runs the popular art challenge called Unreal Björnament. Björn and his family live in Latvia. He is often invited to international events for lectures and portfolio reviews and is engaging in a lot of community-driven activities.

About the book

His first artbook called Abominations was a great success, and so Björn decided to take us deeper into his mind. This new book, ORO, is actually two books in the body of one. You can just turn the book around and explore Björn's universe of ORO. Each of the two sides and covers acts as a gateway to the realms of the light or the realms of the dark.The two universes meet in the middle of the book...
Björn Hurri's ORO is the same format as Abominations, so that both books look as beautiful on your bookshelf as in your hands. It is 210 x 210 mm (8,3 inches) book with 248 pages of content. It is printed on 150gsm Arctic Volume paper and is hardcover bound. This premium edition comes with silver ornament on both covers, silver edges, a silver spine as well as a bookplate signed by Björn Hurri.
Some of the stretchgoals will be about enhancing the book, more info on the campaign!
We are also reprinting the sold-out Abominations with this campaign.

A standard edition of ORO is also available right here!

The Kickstarter campaign is taking place from the 4th of August till the 3rd of September. If you place your order during that time, you'll get all the stretchgoals from the campaign, don't miss out!

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