Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 has finally been released, officially by The Chinese Room. It was re-announced in late 2023 at Pax West that The Chinese Room was working on the game, and it was released in October 2025. Hardsuit Labs was credited under Special Thanks at the very end of the credits.
I'm glad that it's finally out. Some of the work I did on the game from way back actually carried through to the end. A good number of them noticeably changed slightly or were refined. I'm assuming they were either from The Chinese Room or Sumo Digital. I can't really showcase any of my work properly on my portfolio, since it's in a grey area, but I have posted a couple of screenshots of some them on my Tumblr. I'll post some of them here. I prefer not to show any of the old work from the previous version. With respect to the developers and artists from The Chinese Room, I'll just leave it as is. It's a miracle that the game even came out. A blog post showing some of the work is about as far as I'll go.
Here are some areas that I worked on. I have to emphasize that I worked on an earlier version of them from mid-2017 to early-2019. All of them were shared with other artists at Hardsuit Labs, and then over time, The Chinese Room and Sumo Digital polished them and refined to fit with their vision of the game.A few spots in these areas can be seen in some of the trailers from the previous version, but the final version of the game and what actually carried over is what's more important.
Here are the links to my blog posts:
https://www.tumblr.com/agarcellano/801110567842660352/i-worked-on-an-early-version-of-lou-grahams?source=share
https://www.tumblr.com/agarcellano/801110920447361024/i-worked-on-a-different-version-of-the-weaver?source=share
https://www.tumblr.com/agarcellano/801112513202814976/i-worked-on-a-small-tunnel-in-the-jungle-in-the?source=share
https://www.tumblr.com/agarcellano/801113612779454464/this-is-the-last-set-of-screenshots-of-areas-i?source=share
https://www.tumblr.com/agarcellano/801109756157837312/i-took-some-screenshots-of-some-of-the-assets-that?source=share