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Melf
05-16-2006, 12:48 AM
We have a (very) brief interview (http://www.sega-16.com/forum/../Interview-%20Boris%20Vallejo.htm) with Boris Vallejo, illustrator of several Genesis covers, including Golden Axe 2, Phantasy Star IV, Star Control, and the Ecco the Dolphin series. It's a short read, but worth looking into.
j_factor
05-16-2006, 01:53 AM
His covers were generally alright. Phantasy Star IV was a mess though -- well-drawn I suppose, but totally wrong. It makes it look like some ultra-realistic sci-fi cyberpunk game or something.
Joe Redifer
05-16-2006, 02:26 AM
Question missing from the interview:

Sega-16: What's up with the dude on the Golden Axe II cover? He's holding out his sword and looking at it, possibly thinking something like "Why is the blade so damned short?"
Zebbe
05-16-2006, 09:56 AM
Yeah, the PSIV cover is totally wrong. Chaz has a shield (he should be two-handed with the sword) and a jockstrap. Rika looks like a Star Trek character and Hahn is just lost with his look. Btw, you never fight with only those three characters. The Jap cover is a lot better.

Boris didn't seem to like to be interviewed if you ask me. His answers were too short and not inspiring.
Melf
05-16-2006, 04:24 PM
He said he didn't have a lot to say on the matter, which left me wondering why he agreed to be interviewed in the first place. :(
ary incorparated
08-28-2006, 12:05 PM
nag nag if you guys can do it better let me know,i know also people that havent much to but have to say what has to be sead to inform about this reading.
108 Stars
08-28-2006, 05:57 PM
Phantasy Star IV was a manga-style game, and thatīs exactly what the US-cover did wrong: it tries to be too realistic. Like so often with western covers of japanese games the artwork looks like from a cheap fantasy-novel, hell, Chaz kinda looks like an old He-Man action-figure.
Thankfully nowadays that animes are so popular in the west too the companies stick with manga artwork on the covers.

@Ary
I definately could do it better, in fact Iīm quite skilled as a comic-artist.
ary incorparated
08-28-2006, 07:21 PM
You should make the next comix zone then what are you waiting for,choose youre platform and enjoy some sega fans here,Make ary proud,I know something for the next comix zone game,you do the art i do the rock Lol.ther are many people who can draw better then the cover of ps4,BTW are you a quit skilled artist or is that to us to say if you are,never seen youre work(quit intrested),i knew some dude round my age that sead that also once and he showed me some relentles piece of crap.
108 Stars
08-29-2006, 09:43 AM
You should make the next comix zone then what are you waiting for,choose youre platform and enjoy some sega fans here,Make ary proud,I know something for the next comix zone game,you do the art i do the rock Lol.ther are many people who can draw better then the cover of ps4,BTW are you a quit skilled artist or is that to us to say if you are,never seen youre work(quit intrested),i knew some dude round my age that sead that also once and he showed me some relentles piece of crap.

Cool idea, Comix Zone 2, but I guess we would be missing a real programmer or two...
Iīll see that I can get some artwork on Sega-16 once a fan art section has opened, but unfortunately I donīt have a scanner yet. I didnīt even have a PC until a year ago...
Zebbe
08-29-2006, 12:16 PM
Joe Redifer: What sword? It looks like a kitchen knife to me.
ary incorparated
08-29-2006, 01:57 PM
Cool idea, Comix Zone 2, but I guess we would be missing a real programmer or two...
Iīll see that I can get some artwork on Sega-16 once a fan art section has opened, but unfortunately I donīt have a scanner yet. I didnīt even have a PC until a year ago...

Good Idea a Fan art section.