Source: CP2077 Design Bible @Digital Dragons. (2022, June 28). Creating diverse dystopian Cyberpunk 2077 Night City [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLL1zFQPE7s
NECESSITY OVER STYLE
Entropism is the style of poverty. We encounter it in the neglected parts of Night City, where the bottom rung of society has been left to its own devices. The products of Entropism are crude—ugly, even—yet durable. As its catchphrase suggests, it is design governed by necessity, not esthetics.
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Entropism embodies the breakdown the Fourth Corporate War left in its wake. When supply lines and international trade collapsed, an enormous crisis followed, leaving people to find ways to survive by any means and using whatever was available to them. That lead to the emergence of a new style that valued cost efficiency and getting the job done above all else. Corporations and tinkerers alike started producing cheap, crude implants and vehicles, hacks to get people through hard times. By 2077, some vintage examples from Entropism’s heyday are still in use, but most products made in this style that we encounter are new. Plenty of companies still manufacture cheap goods for those that can afford only the lowest of the low-end.
The official digital artbook of Cyberpunk 2077. (n.d.). https://www.cyberpunk.net/artbook/en/
Waldek Kamiński – Senior Concept Artist – CD PROJEKT RED – Cyberpunk 2077
Marcin Klicki – Senior Character Artist
Ward Lindhout – Senior Concept Artist – CD PROJEKT RED – Cyberpunk 2077
Sergey Glushakov - Senior Concept Artist
Marta Leydy - Environment concept artist
Maciej Rebisz - Concept Artist
Ben Andrews - Associate Art Director
Kacper Niepokólczycki – Lead Environment Artist
Lukasz Poduch - Concept Artist
Paweł Breshke Czyżewski - Automotive Designer, Sr Concept Vehicle Designer
