You're amazing, you know that? Even if it's not finished yet, it looks absolutely brilliant.
Someone raise a statue for the guy, he earned it!
Really, really good stuff! :D
Hector is totally fantastic.
Got to say, very impressed. Keep it up :)
Very very cool stuff!!! Keep it up!!!
Almost there.
I'm a little worried about the color schemes so I'm posting some samples.
Wich one do you prefer?
Color:
http://i12.tinypic.com/6bm4bdh.jpg)
Yellow sepia:
http://i17.tinypic.com/6821yk5.jpg)
Orange-red sepia:
http://i13.tinypic.com/5047t35.jpg)
Red sepia:
http://i13.tinypic.com/6bm3zls.jpg)
Brown sepia:
http://i19.tinypic.com/6c60i8l.jpg)
I like the orange-red sepia but that's my preference.
I'm thinking on sending the finished Ad to Tim Schafer but I don't know if he would accept it.
Wondering what the text says?
Something as follows - in spanish, obviously:
"Kids! It's time for BIG FANDANGO
Yes, little ones! It's the new game
from the creator of Full Throttle,
Tim Schafer!!!
What's happening
in the spooky
WORLD OF THE LIVING?
Find out in
BIG FANDANGO
WackyArts - Wacky for WackyArts
Just $39.90"
I like them all, but my favourites are the first and the last. The first one has a great colourful atmosphere and the last one looks like a real classic. The second one isn't bad either, and makes me think of lemons.
But above all, I like your idea of making up a similar game set in the Land of the Living and then making the ads as if you're marketing it to the dead. :D
Way cool. Colour and orange-red all the way, besides. =)
The text is hilarious. ArteLoco indeed.
...Though doesn't really strike as a potential story for kids.
Astounding...simply astounding...and I second what Naomi said.
Those are fantastic! My favourite is the colour one, followed by the orange-red sepia one. Again, though, absolutely amazing!
Great job elbiolin! What you've done is simply awesome!
Thanks for the warm responses!
It'll be the color one then.
I hope he could see it. There isn't a direct contact to him at the DoubleFine site.
lol i always thought the angelito's were both boys...:D
Those covers are awesome by the way!
I'd much rather have a skeleton than a game but that might just be me.
I actually like the first one the best. It seems more like how a cheesyish commercial would be toned. The green-toned one gives off a weird air...as if I'm not suppoused to know what is going on. The orange red looks very nice but gives off this very mellow tone which conflicts with the skeleton's expression. At the same time....he is a skeleton so it sort of works. The red-speia has a little more "power" behind it but the skeleton's suit is too bright and makes that the main focus. The brown sepia is nice but makes me think of old times and not advertisements which try to be colorful and attention-grabbing.
My two cents
this GRAN FANDANGO sounds like GF2 : )
Actually when they lived they probaly all had big block faces like in the game!
Wauw... I think it's a couple of years, since I was here last. So hello, again :P
Anyway, I love those drawings. They're truely amazing! By the way, I like the first one in color. I think it's looking like an advertisement for a cartoon-movie. I think that the colors, maybe are the the reason for that :)
Wow, those "reincarnation" are great! :D I love Lupe and the french waiter.
This reminds me that I tried some time ago to draw Manny:
http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/5430/mannyvivomy2.jpg) (
http://imageshack.us)
Pretty cool, that. :)
I think if you reworked it to look more detailed and made the eyes a bit more Manny-like in personality (he seems a bit wide-eyed, almost seems naive) it'd be a great piece.
I was messing around one day and drew this guy. After I drew him I thought he looked like Charlie, so i colored it with him in mind.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8673426@N06/527322004/)
That's pretty good! Love the style.
I don't know why but John Stewart always reminds me of Manny. Does any of you agree?
I can see it, though Stewart's head maybe a little wider compared to Flesh Manny's
Man, I must say, elbiolin drawings are legendary
they sure are
The Casino guy must be the best
along with Pacomania.com theyre the best ive seen of fans
Here there is a cover box that I did for a fake ad with skinny characters.
It's still a work in progress but enough to show, I guess:
http://i18.tinypic.com/6g3ri52.jpg)
And this is a screenshot from a sepia version for GF Network:
http://i17.tinypic.com/61wfz83.jpg)
have you introduced this to any game companies?
Hi there. Long time no see.
I did.
And I'm working for one now. Powerful Robot Games.
Hard to believe, huh? Mostly because of where I'm living.
Anyway, the site just update the NEWS and JOBS part so you won't find me on TEAM.
Bye!
have you introduced this to any game companies?
I doubt any game companies would care for the box art. Since Grim Fandango is barely acknowledged around Lucasarts.
I doubt any game companies would care for the box art. Since Grim Fandango is barely acknowledged around Lucasarts.
Thats true , but they would care about the art style which is great
plus elbiolin just mentioned he/she is working for Powerful Robot Games. This kind of stuff can catch a game companies eye when they are looking through a portfolio, and may even strike up a conversation like "Oh I LOVED Grim Fandango!"
Hence the moral of the story, MAKE MORE GF FAN ART!
Have you guys seen Casablanca, even if you dont like the movie itself (which is not possible!) Grim Fandango players will have fun seeing the connections between the two, especially the first part of the movie at "Rick's" and Rubacava.
http://www.kenwhited.com/fandango.gifhttp://eric.b.olsen.tripod.com/images/bogart1.jpg)
Yes, the line between Manny and Rick has been drawn many times :)
Well while we're on the topic of who the game designers probably intended these charaters to be based off of, how about Sal as Che Guevara (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara)?)
http://xs226.xs.to/xs226/08165/sal_tunnel338.jpghttp://xs226.xs.to/xs226/08165/cheguevara432.jpg)
who is the chick in the right? :D
In our media studies classroom there is a casablanca poster, although i have never seen the film, i can relate all the characters to someone from grim fandango.
Hold on ill see if i can find it..
EDIT: Here it is
http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb183/stewlil/untitledgwae.jpg)
From Top Left to Bottom Right: Police Cheif Bogan, Hector, Domino, Sal, Haha Glottis, Meche, Manny.
You should watch the movie. After that you would associate that third character with a completely different character from the game. ;)
EDIT: See if you get it (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxNYZdQaC44)
Meh im only 17, im not familiar with half the references that grim fandango contains :P
I just edited my previous post. Since you haven't seen the movie, you can try and guess if you get which character is being referred to. It's so much fun to spot bits that GF borrowed from Casablanca.
Thank you for posting your artwork, elbiolin! Your interpretations of what they looked like when they were alive are absolutely amazing.
I'd like to ask for your permission for something: may I please use some of your GF fanart for icons and such over at LiveJournal? I would give full credit to you. Rest assured that anything featuring your art would be tagged/watermarked to identify that YOU were in fact the one who created them.
No problem, Rei Nokato.
And happy First of May to all!
Especially for those who don't have a job.
I just edited my previous post. Since you haven't seen the movie, you can try and guess if you get which character is being referred to. It's so much fun to spot bits that GF borrowed from Casablanca.
Charlie?
Either that or Ren from Ren and Stimpy.
Man this is/was such an epic thread!
Hahaha that picture is awesome
I imagine Manny as a sort of "Ricky Ricardo" style guy myself. Glotis is an older version of John Belushi
I was reminded of this thread out of nowhere and realised I had lost all of elbiolin's amazing pictures when switching to a new computer. What a relief and surprise to see that they're still up after all these years! And just as great as before. :)
Well, it's been a long time! Yesterday I was updating my blog and found some Grim Fandango pics in an old CD to upload and today I heard about GF remaster for PS4 and came here to look for those pencil illustrations I did some years ago.
I don't know, there's too much to say. It amazes me that VampireNaomi, like she says, still has my drawings and also, for those who said "nobody's interested on old games", I've been on three diferent videogame companies since then and I'm on the fourth now. Nobody saw coming games on mobile devices and a love for pixel art and flash social games back then. So it was a surprise for me too.
Anyway, just beacuse of the nature of this thread I'll let you with the link to my blog just in case you wanted to see something of the work that I was doing on the last years.
Take care! :)
http://elbiolin.wordpress.com/)