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11 Aaron Beck is a New Zealand-born conceptual designer serving as visual director and lead concept artist on Fragmentary Order, the hardcore science fiction multiplayer combat simulator developed by Rant Gaming. He has been attached to the project for over eighteen months, shaping the look of its world, characters, and equipment. Beck is one of the highest-profile creative hires on the team and joins creator Nikita Buyanov as a public face of the production.
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33 Profile
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55 FieldDetailRoleVisual Director / Lead Concept ArtistStudioRant GamingProjectFragmentary OrderTenure on Project18+ months as of April 2026Industry YearsOver a decade in film and gamesOriginNew ZealandPortfolioaaronbeck.com
66 Game Industry Credits
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88 Beck's prior work in games centers on the Call of Duty franchise, where he contributed concept art across multiple flagship entries:
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1010 Call of Duty: Infinite WarfareCall of Duty: Modern WarfareCall of Duty: Modern Warfare IICall of Duty: Black Ops IIICall of Duty: Warzone 2.0
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1212 Those projects span hard surface industrial design, future combat equipment, and environmental concepts that carry over thematically into Fragmentary Order.
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1414 Film Credits
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1616 Before moving fully into games, Beck spent roughly eight years as a senior conceptual designer at Weta Workshop, the New Zealand effects house known for high-detail creature, costume, and prop design. Verified film credits include:
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1818 District 9ElysiumAvatar
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2020 Across those films, Beck's contributions concentrated on hard-edged industrial design and grounded machinery. The same design discipline shows up in his concept work for shooter franchises and now anchors the visual identity of Fragmentary Order's RepEnts, weapons, and bunkers.
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2222 That background is evident in his portfolio's emphasis on plausible mechanical detail, weathered industrial surfaces, and grounded near-future technology rather than stylized or fantastical aesthetics.
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2424 Visual Direction on Fragmentary Order
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2626 Beck is responsible for the overall visual language of the game. That covers the silhouette and surfacing of the disposable clone soldiers known as Replicated Entities, the look of weapons and gear, the bunkers Core Era citizens operate from, and the contested zones across the Solar System where matches play out. The studio has described the project as hard science fiction with cyberpunk elements, and Beck's involvement points toward tactile, photoreal industrial design rather than clean futurism.
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2828 Specifics beyond that broad framing have not been disclosed. No concept sheets or character keyframes have been released, and the seven-minute lore trailer used during the April 12, 2026 reveal does not credit individual artists on screen. Beck's eighteen-plus months on the project predate the public reveal by a wide margin, suggesting he was among the first creative hires after the studio formed.
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3030 Weta Workshop Years
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3232 Before joining the games industry, Beck spent roughly eight years as a senior conceptual designer at Weta Workshop in New Zealand, the Academy Award-winning studio behind concept work for major film productions. During that tenure he contributed to design work on a string of high-profile science fiction projects, with a particular focus on hard-edged industrial design: vehicles, weapons, armour, and the practical-looking machinery that grounds a fantastical world in believable engineering. Public coverage of his current role on Fragmentary Order repeatedly cites that film background as the visual lineage shaping the game's look, particularly the appetite for grounded, weighty, lived-in design rather than glossy concept art.
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3434 Freelance Game Work
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3636 After leaving Weta Workshop, Beck moved into video game concept work as a freelance designer. The most widely cited credit from that period is concept work on a major first-person shooter franchise built around military hardware and near-future settings, a portfolio that is consistent with the brief of building a credible hardcore sci-fi shooter for Rant Gaming. That freelance phase is the bridge between his film studio years and his current role as visual director for Fragmentary Order.
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3838 Visual Pillars on Fragmentary Order
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4040 Coverage of the project frames Beck's role as defining the visual identity of the entire game, from operator and clone silhouettes to weapon design language and environmental art direction. The brief is consistent with the game's broader pitch: hard science fiction with cyberpunk overtones, grounded technology that reads as the next two centuries of real engineering rather than a leap into fantasy, and a strong sense of weight and function on every piece of gear. The Replicated Entities (RepEnt) program, the corporate iconography of Core (Corporation), and the contested zones referenced on the Maps and Scale page all sit downstream of the visual language he is establishing.
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4242 Unconfirmed Details
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4444 Several aspects of Beck's role remain unconfirmed and should not be stated as fact:
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4646 Exact title. Coverage has used visual director, art director, and lead concept artist; the studio has not clarified which is correct or whether he holds more than one of these roles.Reporting line. Whether Beck reports directly to Buyanov, to a separate creative director, or to a production lead is not public.Full game industry credits beyond the Call of Duty entries listed above.Team scope. The size of the concept team working under Beck at Rant Gaming has not been disclosed.