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On February 17 2009 07:44 nofAcedAgent wrote:
Edit: Although the Roaches are pretty simmlar MrJacks colors are much more inline with the zerg pallette I really appreciate the "tounge-like" fleshy claws on Jacks, unlike Blizzards versions whos claws are so sharp the look like they belong to Protoss..
True, it is creative additions like this that show that Mr. Jack is not just "copying" from the concept art. He is reimagining it in a more grotesque and anatomically realistic style. His roach is disgusting. Its something that has been pincusioned by guass fire and regenerated countless times. The pockmarked shell and extensive scar tissue of the underside do a great job at portraying this.
I also really love his baneling. It looks cancerous and unstable. Exactly how I would imagine a biological ticking time bomb would look. No eyes or unnessisary features, just a scuttling package of volatile growth.
Finally the extensive sinews that he adds to the zergling, roach and hydralisk show that these creaturese are purely muscle mashines. No need for external organs, fatty layers or dermal coverings over a creature that is just meant to move and kill fast.
For those who don't know Mr Jack currently does illustrations for biology books. It is clearly evident in these pieces that Mr Jack understands the importance of science in science fiction.
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Mr. Jack: ur gonna have a duel
*bitchslap*
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MrJack apply as a concept artist for blizzard. You have qualifications for that, just show them a portfolio silimar to what you have shown us and you are insta-hired. its not as hard as you think, i have respect for Samwise but he isnt anything special, he got hired by blizzard when they were tiny and working on simply 2d games.
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-_-. Yes, his work is good, but concept art is not merely making things look as pretty as possible. Think about how hard it would be to translate this artist's work into a top-down, zoomed out game while maintaining the same feeling. The first picture would most likely look like quite a bad blob, as it has no feature that would distinguish itself in a silhouette, which is a major caveat for design. Concept art is to give the unit animators a unique and strong overall picture of a subject, sometimes simplified and exaggerated, not to embellish detail upon detail to make it stand out as a product all in its own. His designs are good, but they are more suited for illustration, not concept work.
Also, I have no idea how these pictures incorporates science into the physiology of these animals more than the average fantasy illustrator.
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On February 17 2009 09:24 ShaperofDreams wrote:
MrJack apply as a concept artist for blizzard. You have qualifications for that, just show them a portfolio silimar to what you have shown us and you are insta-hired. its not as hard as you think, i have respect for Samwise but he isnt anything special, he got hired by blizzard when they were tiny and working on simply 2d games.
jeez mate, Samwise is blizzard
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On February 17 2009 05:19 Savio wrote:Show nested quote +On February 16 2009 21:35 CharlieMurphy wrote:
The best one in there is the larva imo. He fucking made larva look cool.
Are you serious? The one on the right is actually turning into and egg too, so fucking sick. QFT. I hope Blizz makes the larva kind of slimy like in Jack's picture. Who would have thought that a larva could look awesome? EDIT: One thing that hasn't been emphasized enough yet, is that even though most of Mr. Jack's artwork is just adding detail to units already fleshed out, that is NOT true for his version of the infestor. He took the idea of the infestor and did MAJOR revisions to it and in my opinion took an ugly unit (not because of detail but because of design), and made it awesome. What do you all think of his infestor? If Blizz used that model, would you all be happy?
Yes, The Infestor looks much better.
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WOW That hydralisk looks so awsome
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My father is a senior concept artist for Radical Ent., sister company of blizzard, MrJack's stuff is fine, he may have to get a little familiar with Maya so he can communicate with them, as long as he is creative and he can create skillfully (which he has proven) he'll be fine.
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MrJack working for Blizzard for the rest of his life FTW
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hymn's comment shares exactly my sentiments. I'm not so much bashing mr jack as I am just against people downplaying samwise. He's a huge contributor to what has made blizzard -- blizzard. To just downplay that all is wrong, he's come up with so many ideas visually and most of what I'm seeing is along the lines of "mrjack is better". Kinda sad people are showing such ignorance, but if mrjack does apply for blizzard I do wish him the best of luck.
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I want to puke just by looking at some of the designs.
I guess thats good when we are talking about Zerg.
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- one thing is to work with already created art forms, another is to create them
<3 samwise
+ Show Spoiler +and yes, respect 4 Mr. Jack : ) awesome stuff
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those are some badass larvae
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A new all orginal artwork from MrJack
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On February 16 2009 10:23 SilverskY wrote:
That is the scariest drone I've ever seen.
I didnt even recognize what unit its supposed to be at first and then was like oh... I always thought you guys ware cute.
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As already mentioned, samwise, working for a video game company must produce art that is applicable to the game he's working on.
That's not to say that he can't fully illustrated and detailed works like MR.Jack.
Someone mentioned MR.Jack's occupation as an illustrator for biology books, and these kind of works he has made here are what would fit in the for example a game manual(you often see these kinds of illustrations) aswell in maybe some ingame info cards on creatures you have seen(think Tome of Knowledge in WH online)
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All are awesome.
I don't like the Hydra... It looks awesome but it's to *big* for me?
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These are great. They are raw, powerful, natural and disgusting, just how Zerg should be, not the current happy elfland wc3-ripoff artwork that the Metzens have slothed into, because it sells. I hope the people responsible for the current Zerg design (the cartoony feel did good for the Protoss, while the T is meh, ok) will have some nightmares of angry critiques with "Orcs in Space 2" signs.
There's still time. Don't sell out, Blizzard:-p
Ok, I might have steered offtopic, but these were my two cents
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On February 17 2009 05:24 Savio wrote:
lol, Archerofair just ripped dcttr66 a new hole without even saying anything.
try to be better mannered, actually archer was supporting my point. the drone looks a lot like a defiler. i haven't seen any blizzard pictures of the drone from sc2 until after i posted...
ok you can add the lurker to the list of mr. jack zerg pictures that i like...so that's the drone, the larva and the lurker. idk what's up with you guys liking his infestor. i LOVE the blizzard infestor, it's so awesome! and that mr. jack infestor looks pathetic. i mean, compare the feet for crying out loud, blizzard's feet look like metal feet! haha...it's a tough monster...and the jack infestor looks like it's just gonna die. i suppose if you are terran fan and you want an easy target spell caster you like jack's infestor just because you don't want to deal with the real infestor because it's much more deadly looking and scary. it might be fine for graphics for the little zerg guys that make creep that queens make that are burrowed but i'm not sure if they scrapped that idea or not...but infestor? no way, man. no way.
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