People unfamilar with the development cycle need to realise alot of the blizzard pics are concept art used throughout the development stages.

For each black and white sketch you see there was over a 100 doodles to finally settle on the overall design

And for each colored pic you see there were problaly over a dozen different variations on texture and coloring.

All of which are finally passed down for the 3d modellers to implement.

A good example for this would be the DT model, even the final 3d model has 2 variations... now jsut think back to how many actual sketches and paintings and drawings and variations the dt unit alone would have had.

That and I think making the game's rating also played a factor. Imagine your 14 year old trolling through the supermarket and asking his mommy to buy a box with that hydralisk on the cover.. ehhh..

Centric

United States1989 Posts

February 23 2009 19:29 GMT

#164

On February 19 2009 22:12 G.s)NarutO wrote:
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Awesome Marauder

God I will miss the firebat.

Oedi

Canada265 Posts

February 23 2009 19:32 GMT

#165

the defiler is up now :D

parkin

1090 Posts

February 23 2009 20:22 GMT

#166

The more I look at Mr Jacks stuff the more I like it.

Latvia791 Posts

February 23 2009 21:51 GMT

#167

Amazingly detailed and beautiful drawings. Zergling wings should be removed at all or used as seen in alternate version IMHO. I don't see them being there at all, especially in live game sequences, there they look ridiculous.
Roach and Baneling is so much more detailed and grotesque that I start to doubt Blizzard artist talents.

Hydra is quite good but too bulky.
And yeah... infected terran is absolutely GODLIKE. This is the best "infection" art which I've seen since Homeworld: Cataclysm.

PlutoNZ

New Zealand410 Posts

February 24 2009 01:37 GMT

#168

Defiler-

New artwork done by MrJack.

D10

Brazil3409 Posts

February 24 2009 02:57 GMT

#169

God dammit Blizzard hire the man already.

Typho0n

Canada276 Posts

February 24 2009 03:25 GMT

#170

damn man the defiler is awesome. I love the dark swarm coming out of his back, its funny how i didn't really think about how the swarm cloud has to come out of the defiler since in the game it just appears like magic. Keep up the good work man!

Chuiu

3470 Posts

February 24 2009 04:50 GMT

#171

HOLY SHIT!

Archerofaiur

United States4101 Posts

February 24 2009 05:00 GMT

#172

On February 24 2009 10:37 SearingShadow wrote:

Nice Drone.

Manbear

Canada306 Posts

February 24 2009 05:15 GMT

#173

Nice Defiler man your style of drawing has a realism and flair to it that makes it very interesting, are you going to keep pumping out zerg units (all of which have been very nice so far) or are you going to throw in some units from other races in sc2 /scbw?

EDIT: or i guess i should say is mr jack planning on throwing in other races units and such lol forgot the poster wasnt the drawer

Kips

Australia6 Posts

February 24 2009 05:36 GMT

#174

We all love you Mr Jack... can you please do some more Terran/Toss art?!?

Last Romantic

United States20666 Posts

February 24 2009 07:26 GMT

#175

... The jaw of that thing is amazing.

Magic84

Russian Federation1381 Posts

February 24 2009 09:00 GMT

#176

On February 24 2009 10:37 SearingShadow wrote:

Defiler-

New artwork done by MrJack.

Holy shit. Blizzard, fire your trash art designers and sign this guy for LIFE.

DoX.)

Singapore6164 Posts

February 24 2009 09:33 GMT

#177

On February 24 2009 16:26 Last Romantic wrote:
... The jaw of that thing is amazing.

Yeah holy fuck it stretches all the way to the back of its face(?) lol

alffla

Hong Kong20321 Posts

February 24 2009 09:42 GMT

#178

On February 24 2009 18:33 DoX.) wrote:

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Yeah holy fuck it stretches all the way to the back of its face(?) lol

LOOOOOOOL

yea its like giong into its abdomen and shit RFOL

but sick art

NarutO

Germany18839 Posts

February 24 2009 09:53 GMT

#179

Sick art. I still think Samwise is more into detail. For example the wings of the zerglings are hit by gunshots etc.. O_O!
Still blizzard should hire that guy!