THIS IS WHY THEY CALL IT CONCEPT ART

[sonnekinde]

OKAY OKAY OKAY. HAVE ANY OF YOU EVER SEEN THE CONCEPT WORK CHARLES ZEMBILLAS DID FOR THE PRECURSOR LEGACY? IT CAN BE FOUND HERE AND MAR ALMIGHTY IT IS ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS. THERE ARE MANY LULZ TO BE HAD.

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[chyroptera]

HUH THAT'S REALLY INTERESTING. I HADN'T SEEN THOSE BEFORE

I THOUGHT A GUY NAMED BOB DID THE ART FOR NAUGHTY DOG

REALLY COOL TO SEE THE EVOLUTION OF THOUGHT, AND HOW SOME OF THE ELEMENTS WERE LATER INCORPORATED INTO THE GAME

AND RIGHT FROM THE BEGINNING, THEY WERE AIMING FOR 'SEXY' GIRLS. I NOTICED KEIRA WASN'T DEFINED BY ANYTHING OTHER THAN THAT... PSSHT INTEREST IN MECHANICS. WHO NEEDS CHARACTERIZATION

ALSO WOW. MAIA STARTED OUT KINDA BADASS. I WISH THEY'D LEFT SOME OF THAT EXTRA CLOTH ON HER FOR THE FINAL VERSION

[sonnekinde]

THE WAY I UNDERSTAND IT, THEY LET CHARLES ZEMBILLAS DO SKETCHES FIRST WITH LIMITED DIRECTION. WHEN THEY SAW SOMETHING THEY LIKED, THEY LET BOB RAFEI AND OTHER NAUGHTY DOGS LOOSE ON IT, AND THEN GAVE THAT BACK TO ZEMBILLAS AS FEEDBACK. WHEN THE DIRECTION WAS ESTABLISHED, RAFEI TOOK OVER COMPLETELY. SO IT WAS KIND OF A BACK-AND-FORTH THING BETWEEN MULTIPLE CONCEPT ARTISTS.

AS FOR KEIRA, I'M KIND OF AMUSED BY THE DESCRIPTION OF ONE OF THE SKETCHES: "THIS DESIGN GETS VERY CLOSE TO THE FINAL CHARACTER." UMMMMMMMMM MR. ZEMBILLAS HAVE YOU EVER ACTUALLY SEEN KEIRA?

[manawolf]

IKR, THAT SKETCH REALLY DIDN'T SHARE MUCH OF A STRONG DESIGN WITH KEIRA'S FINAL

[sonnekinde]

IT'S LIKE, I CAN SORT OF SEE THE HAIR, MAYBE, WITH THE TWO LOCKS IN THE FRONT? AND BOTH VERSIONS WEAR A SHORT, SLEEVELESS TOP. BUT OTHER THAN THAT, I GOT NOTHING.

[otana]

BOB RAFEI WAS THE MAIN ARTIST ON THE JAK SERIES, BUT I GUESS THIS MEANS HE CAME IN AFTER THE ORIGINAL CHARACTER CONCEPTS WERE HAMMERED OUT AND HE JUST DID THE FINAL TOUCHES?