Roman Guro

Roman Guro is Art Director at the Ukrainian company RedBeat. He has worked in the game industry since 2001. He has taught digital drawing and concept art courses (GUROED.COM) for over 10 years, and has run drawing, painting and concept art courses since 2010. His main areas are art direction, creating and controlling visual style, character design and illustration. He started as a character artist at the Ukrainian studio Action Forms on Duke Nukem: Endangered Species. He later worked at Crytek GmbH on Far Cry, co-founded the Kyiv studio CREOTEAM (Collapse and Collapse: The Rage), served as Art Director at Nival's Ukrainian division, and was Art Lead at King (Activision Blizzard) in Singapore. At Games Gathering 2025 in Lviv he spoke about design principles in concept art and the ecological use of AI.