Stranger Things Desktop
Sunday, July 24, 2005
I just finished the first piece of art for Stranger Things, conveniently sized for your desktop.
That one is 1280x1024. There's also a 1024x768 version if you need it.
UPDATE: I hired two artists to work on Stranger Things today: the daring Jake Richmond and Mystery Ninja X (known to mortals as Ed Heil). I'm sending out the artist's bible later tonight and I'll be posting the artwork I get back after it's finalized. Both of these artists are awesome and you all should hire them right away.
UPDATE AGAIN: A few people have asked about the contents of the art bible, so I'm posting a link to the PDF so you can see it for yourself. (This is the screen-rez version. The artists got full-rez, plus specific direction for their individual pieces.)
Labels: stranger things
10 Comments:
Holy crap John, that rocks! It has the Mignola vibe.
Are you gonna tell us more about this, or just keep teasing us?
This is so very fucking cool. Did you work this bitch all digital or a mix? It reminds me of a cartoon that I can't remember the fucking name of. But rawk on with your bad self. Rawk on.
Whoa. If Mignola + Timm had a love child (adopted, I guess, or created in a lab), it would have drawn this.
Thanks, folks. Glad ya like it.
Joe: I'll tell more later this week.
Keith: The line art was done with pen and paper (the buildings and the Stranger as separate elements). Then I scanned 'em and did the coloring in PS. The buildings are based on a screenshot from Thief III which has the perfect architecture for this game.
Matt: Yeah, it does have a "Stranger Things: The Animated Series" vibe goin' on, eh? And Timm is my other favorite, so... cool.
Rawk.
Title + Cover would make me open this sucker on the bookshelf to see what's inside.
And here I was hope'n fer a full color book with plates as if it was tak'n from the animator's desk and dropped into layout. The pict you did really is a stand out piece of work (as is everything I have seen you do).
Does Mystery Ninja X have a website or can you point me towards previous work?
Oh, and what do you put in the artist's bible? Curious cause all I have ever gotten from folks is vague hand waving or specific instructions.
Ed doesn't have a portfolio site online right now (I already bugged him about it).
A few people have asked about the artist's bible, so I'll just post a link to the PDF.
You can check out my mad flava and phat skillz in my two Trollbabe comics and at Greyorm's Orx page ( http://orx.daegmorgan.net/purchase.htm ) until I get around to putting up a real site. :)
Ed's Trollbabe comics:
The Birthroot Bargain
Mystic Crystal Revelations
Love, love, love the mushroom man!
Thanks for posting the artists' bible. That's really neat to see.
I can't wait to have this thing in my hands.
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