Beatiful Horrors -or- Can You Imagine?

I love that we've come to a point that we can basically just translate stylized art into videogame form pretty much without losing a beat.  Why?  Ever seen a piece of cover art, or maybe a scribbled drawing on the inside of an old Blizzard game instruction manual, then said to yourself "Man, I wish the game looked like that".  Concept art for anything usually goes above and beyond the final product if only because the artists making them aren't limited by anything but their imaginations.

Dark Souls makes me smile.  This is the kind of imaginative madness you don't often get to see brought to life, let alone with such realistic qualities.

The monsters of Dark Souls - Playstation.Blog