Here is the Heavy Barrel with a SMB/DH for size. The painted area is about 17X22 inches but there is a boarder all the way around. Its also attached to a thicker sheet which is larger all the way around. A plastic sheet has been taped to the top to the non-painted area as protection (from the artist not me) but this can be removed with no damage.

Its hard to tell sometimes if people are 'into' what you present. Glad to hear you enjoy looking at them. If there are any from the slide show you would like to see better shots of let me know.

Here is a better Zombies picture sorry I don't have the other Zombies. I prefer this one but yeah it would nice to have them both.



I would guess that they used models for the PT box. Not every box was from a painting. Having the actual models would be very cool and I'm sure it wouldn't be difficult for a gifted artist to reproduce a set for you.

Limbofunk wrote on 16. Jun 2007 at 01:04:


Hear hear I love this game too, but feel embarrassed to admit it! There's really no difficulty to it, but at least it's beatable without some sort of walkthrough/hint book unlike the kemco/seika first-person adventures of the same kind. Sure, throw that spider at the ghost, that will get rid of it...

I'm assuming some of the cartoon art included within the game and manual was probably passed along as a concept for the cover, but deemed two "2-dimensional." At this point in the NES's lifespan (1991) production was at a fever pitch and NES's market share was immense, in order to stand out the developers probably felt they needed to go out on a limb and make something very different for the art. So they went all "gumby" on it. Certainly appealed to the target market as well, the same age group.

"He's here...and he will be sure to stay...Gumby!"

Its  cool to see the differences between the artist concept and the final result.

I have a question about the concept art.  In some cases it looks less crisp than the final box art (look at the Double Dragon writing).

Is this because there was some additional involvement in setting up the printing dies, etc..  or is because this concept was simply that, a concept, which the video game company themselves modified/recreated/adapted into whatever final output format and look they wanted.

I guess the reason I am asking is because I dont know the level of technology they had in the late 80s as far as layout and printing are concerned.


I know that for Sudoku, my wife painted the initial artwork on some sort of material (I dont think its called a canvas when its a watercolor painting) that would fit in our flatbed scanner, and then I used photoshop to add the fonts, etc...  But since my results involved a printer instead of a printing press, I'm sure there's differences.

Al

This is soo cool! I'm amazed over the quantity of these you get your hands on!
I'd love to see a bigger picture of the Crystalis art work!

Good going!

Ok, this is wierd. I dreamt about your stuff last night. You had them all up for show like artist do with their new work. THey looked amazing. I remember the Crystalis one especially casue it really was a LOT smaller than the other ones, just like on your pictures.