Rasmus Deguchi, an artist currently working on The Last Guardian for SCEs Team Ico, puts it this way: As an artist, what you really want to do is transfer that crazy vision in your head onto the screen as closely as possible. With environment art, you want to help create places that make the player feel something, a sense of place, real or not. If we do our jobs right, we have games with the power to wow people and put them in places theyd otherwise never see, letting them exercise and enjoy the freedom of really being there, in a way I think is truly unique to this medium."