Friday 2010-11-12 Dev. update and Discussion

[Solnyshko]

I think Oleg's on the ball when it comes to aviation art. He aproached Glen Angus a while back to work on the GUI for SoW. Sadly Angus passed away before this came to be







- also notice the background splash screens shown at Igromir - they are not screen grabs. Far from it.

[WTE_Galway]

Glen Angus work was evocative and always impressive, it was a sad loss.

Some more of his work:

[Romanator21]

Cool art.

EDIT - Am I going nuts, or does it look like the horse has six legs?

To me it seems the GUI images are heavily edited screen-shots, not from-scratch paintings. ( all the more credit to the artist if it is actually a painting).

[Richie]

Must be where Cameron got his idea for the worse movie ever made.

[Skoshi Tiger]

Originally Posted by Romanator21

Cool art.

EDIT - Am I going nuts, or does it look like the horse has six legs?

To me it seems the GUI images are heavily edited screen-shots, not from-scratch paintings. ( all the more credit to the artist if it is actually a painting).

Odins horse Sleipnir had eight legs, if you take the shadows in the background to be extra legs we may have a match.

Cheers!

[Immermann]

Originally Posted by Romanator21

Cool art.

EDIT - Am I going nuts, or does it look like the horse has six legs?

Eight legs. Probably Sleipnir.

----EDIT-----
Not fast enough

[jamesdietz]

FYiI- These are a couple of the versions I've used for splash screens:




Several years ago when SoW was first announced ( remember?)I exchanged several friendly emails with the great man himself.Basically he liked the work but decisions on packaging were shared with Ubisoft designers & they had their own preferences.I can understand this & am a great fan of computer driven art myself.It makes sense to have computer driven images on computer games.If I have any gripe at all it is the quality of the images chosen for use in previous versions of IL-2...I find them rather forgetable,but maybe thats just me.I almost always liked or appreciated the art on model boxtops as much as what was inside.With Il-2 ( or Rise of Flight for that matter) the box is almost always put away never to be seen again after the sim is up & running.Of course one does have to see the designers choices for menu screens over & over ( until someone breaks the code as modders have done in Il-2...)

[major_setback]

Originally Posted by jamesdietz

FYiI- These are a couple of the versions I've used for splash screens:




Several years ago when SoW was first announced ( remember?)I exchanged several friendly emails with the great man himself.Basically he liked the work but decisions on packaging were shared with Ubisoft designers & they had their own preferences.I can understand this & am a great fan of computer driven art myself.It makes sense to have computer driven images on computer games.If I have any gripe at all it is the quality of the images chosen for use in previous versions of IL-2...I find them rather forgetable,but maybe thats just me.I almost always liked or appreciatedthe art on model boxtops as much as what was inside.With Il-2 ( or Rise of flight for that matter) the box is almost always put away never to be seen again after the sim is up & running.Of course one does have to see the designers choices for menu screens over 7 over ( until someone breaks the code as modders have done in Il-2...)

Thanks for sharing the splash screens and story.

[Jimko]

Originally Posted by jamesdietz

FYiI- These are a couple of the versions I've used for splash screens:

Several years ago when SoW was first announced ( remember?)I exchanged several friendly emails with the great man himself.Basically he liked the work but decisions on packaging were shared with Ubisoft designers & they had their own preferences.I can understand this & am a great fan of computer driven art myself.It makes sense to have computer driven images on computer games.If I have any gripe at all it is the quality of the images chosen for use in previous versions of IL-2...I find them rather forgetable,but maybe thats just me.I almost always liked or appreciated the art on model boxtops as much as what was inside.With Il-2 ( or Rise of Flight for that matter) the box is almost always put away never to be seen again after the sim is up & running.Of course one does have to see the designers choices for menu screens over & over ( until someone breaks the code as modders have done in Il-2...)

I LOVE the ambiance of those pictures!
As the Brits would say..."Well Done!"

[Oleg Maddox]

Originally Posted by Solnyshko

I think Oleg's on the ball when it comes to aviation art. He aproached Glen Angus a while back to work on the GUI for SoW. Sadly Angus passed away before this came to be

Yes it was....