Just nicked this from Drokk and Stomm.
I have no memory of drawing this at all, which is all the more annoying because I like it a lot, especially Ratty’s tail.
I’m assuming the background was originally white, which I’m sure wouldn’t work half as well as that creamy weathered look.
I finally got going on mine and Ben Dickson’s Kestrels book but I had to stop due to getting a job with a deadline.
But at least I finally have an idea what it might look like. Early days but still confident.
Like a lot other people who play video games, the thing I like best about cutscenes is when you find the right control to turn the bloody things off. Unless, of course, you’re getting paid to work on them, in which case it is a completely different kettle of fish (for a couple of months, anyway).
So here’s a bunch of sketches and finished drawings that went into the making of several sequences for the Glory in Death Warhammer 40k N-Gage phone game.
I’d love to be able to post the videos but, as with so much of my old work, I (accidentally) binned them.
Courtesy of my chum Adam Board, I’ve just taken delivery of a shed load of pencil sketches and drawings from my time working at Razorback developments.
Here’s a selection from the work that went into producing the Space Marines talking heads for the Glory in Death game.
The final in-game images would be 96 x 96 pixels, so it took me a while to get the hang of what sort of detail would or wouldn’t work at such a small size. Great fun!
This was a commission based on the last panel of the Cursed Earth story, as Dredd prepares to board a flight from Mega-City Two back to Mega-City One.
I’ve spent years wondering about this, because I thought that such a flight was impossible due to the flying rocks that fill the skies over the wastelands between the two cities, and were the reason for Dredd’s overland trek in the first place, but I’ve just looked it up and it seems to have hinged on the airports at Mega-City two being overrun with mutants (or something).
Just as well, as I’d forgotten all about drawing the rocks into the background pretty early on in the piece anyway, doubtless out of guilt at the cack-handed way I’d drawn the episodes where the rocks are infested with mutant rats. Fur!
I have a feeling I’ll have to start this again, but doubtless I’ll while away an hour or two before I finally concede defeat.
