Jan-Bart van Beek
Studio Director & Studio Art & Animation Director, Guerrilla Games
Talks
A No Nonsense Approach to Designing Robot Dinosaurs
Speaker: Jan-Bart Van Beek
Jan-Bart Van Beek at VIEW 2019
Brendan Greene at VIEW 2019
The Last of Us Part 2
The Words that Paint a Thousand Pictures: The Role of Verbal Communication in Art Direction
Got a Question About Games? Ask Jan-Bart Van Beek!
Climate Change and Storytelling
Horizon Forbidden West
The Future of Immersive Storytelling
The Future of Production Design
From God of War to Beyond
Horizon: Call of the Mountain. Lessons Learned from the Frontier of Virtual Reality
How to Break into a Career in Animation, VFX and Games
Talking a Video Game into Existence: The Importance of Verbal Communication in Art Direction
The Global Games Scene and the Italian Landscape
Creating a Family-Friendly Apocalypse: The Development of Lego Horizon Adventures
Career Advice: My First Job and What I Learned
Jan-Bart van Beek at VIEW Conference 2026
Jan-Bart van Beek oversees the art and animation quality of all Guerrilla projects. A photography student at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague, Jan-Bart turned to computer graphics software to enhance his work. After graduation he applied his knowledge as a CG artist in the field of advertising. His ambition to create something more enduring led Jan-Bart to join Guerrilla, where he quickly became the Lead Artist on KILLZONE and the Art Director on KILLZONE 2 and beyond. He most recently shipped HORIZON ZERO DAWN to widespread popular and critical acclaim. For his work as Art Director and originator of Horizon Zero Dawn, he received a BAFTA in 2018.