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Oddworld Announces Artbook Retrospective
mibus writes "Oddworld Inhabitants (makers of 'Abe's Oddysee' and the other games in the Oddworld series) and Ballistic Publishing (makers of the EXPOSE' series of CG art books) have announced a joint deal to publish a book with a compilation of Oddworld's artwork, collected over the last ten years. The book is expected to land in Fall 2004." Although Western-developer artbooks seem few and far between, what game title/series would you like to see artbooks for?
Actually, EA too, especially the Apple II days.
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Darkwatch from Sammy Studios. It isn't out yet, but the artwork that has been released is mucho cool. Given the rich background of the storyline, as well as the fact that many of the designers are also ex-Oddworld designers, I think it would make a great book. I wouldn't mind a roleplaying (aka GURPS Myth, GURPS Alpha Centauri, d20 Diablo, d20 Warcraft) version either.
Apparantly there is a 48 page booklet entitled "The Art of Morrowind", however I have only seen it bundled with a game.
I'd like to see a series of simple, clean art based on the early sprites of video games. Something that captures the essence of the pixel layout in a high quality glossy print suitable for framing. Most sprites would probably look nice on a solid black background. Something in a vein similar to the Absolut Vodka ads. Not funny, but a series of pieces that could be framed and hung as a grouping.
Now that I think about it, I guess I could do this on my own. I wonder if such imagery is considered public domain yet?
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I have several of the Star Wars artbooks, and Ralph McQuarrie's original paintings are amazing. So yeah, stuff like that is pretty big among the geek set.
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