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mast.gian: Thanks for sharing Paul Bonner's link, by far my favorite artist since i discovered him with Mutant Chronicles.
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Vainamoinen: Original P&P RPG or Kickstarter reboot?

I think there was no new Bonner art in the Kickstarter edition, which was a bit sad. These artists in particular I'd like to fund with Kickstarter. :|

As much as I love digging through 80s art, through the Drew Struzans and the Richard Amsels, if I can I'd like to support that this kind of art survives this and makes it into the next century.
In my country Mutant chronicles was the CCG, while the board game was called Blood Beret and was sold as part of a bi-weekly release of Lunacy, the first book of the trilogy. Later i also started collecting metal figurines for Warzone and Chronopia, the fantasy spin off. I think Bonner was involved in the artwork of all those games.
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timppu: It is like all those programmers who used lots of time learning Pascal or Fortran. Where are they now? On the streets, asking coins for programming something with those forgotten programming languages. But nooo, everyone just wants C# or python or even java these days.
That analogy doesn't really hold (even though I understand what you're getting at). Programming principals apply to modern languages. They're basically just a fresh coat of paint to older paradigms and programming methodologies. A good programmer should be able to learn the basics of a new language in a month, if not a weekend.

RE : Ex-programmer of 21 years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mm65Opc74Y

Apparently there's a pretty interesting documentary about Frazetta. I need to get my hands on it. Have any of you guys seen it?
Lots of great artists were mentionned, allow me to add some more.

Chris Foss

Angus McKie

Jean "Moebius" Giraud (Airtight garage, Arzak, Edena and so many many more)

Philippe Caza (lots of SF book covers and other stuff)

Vicente Segrelles (El Mercenario)

Philippe Druillet (some of his art is there)

Jean-Claude Mézières (Valerian and Laureline, which inspired Star Wars, yes, I really mean Star Wars and The 5th Element among others, but he also did other stuff)
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KrysTOFF: Jean "Moebius" Giraud (Airtight garage, Arzak, Edena and so many many more)
And the never-made Dune by Jodorovsky.

God, if that book ever gets published I will get it no matter how crazy expensive it is. It's my Holy Grail.

Sidenote- love your avatar, number six.
Post edited January 22, 2017 by Breja
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KrysTOFF: Jean "Moebius" Giraud (Airtight garage, Arzak, Edena and so many many more)
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Breja: God, if that book ever gets published I will get it no matter how crazy expensive it is. It's my Holy Grail.
This art is by Chris Foss, as he drew the spaceships while Moebius drew the costume designs. But I confirm that this is a Holy Grail.

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Breja: Sidenote- love your avatar, number six.
I am not a number, I am a free Patrick McGoohan fan ;-)
Post edited January 22, 2017 by KrysTOFF
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Breja: I really miss stuff like this and . <a href="http://www.gog.com/forum/general/i_miss_old_school_sci_fi_and_fantasy_art/post1" class="link_arrow"></a></div> Me too! The covers of the [url=http://img1.imagesbn.com/p/9780786942466_p0_v1_s260x420.JPG] Drizzt books were also very nice.

Now, I am new to D&D and was only able to play once, but I picked up the Fifth Edition Player's Handbook and the art in there was amazing! I don't mind that style either.

I just think the big love for the modern Manga art-styles made western artists go for a more... Soft look? I am not an artist, so I am talking out of my ass...It's great art either way!
Post edited January 23, 2017 by Karterii93
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Karterii93: Now, I am new to D&D and was only able to play once, but I picked up the Fifth Edition Player's Handbook and the art in there was amazing! I don't mind that style either.
Like I said, there clearly was an attempt to go back, at least somewhat, to that old-school art with the fifth edition. It really was the fourth one that went most heavily into a much more comicbook, sometimes even cartoonish look. Maybe because the whole thing seemed to be an attempt to get new people into it by making it more "mainstream" and even MMO like in some ways. At least that's the idea I got from what I've read and heard about it, I never got to play it. I very much doubt me and my friends will ever move past D&D 3.5.
It seems after Final fantasy VII and Warcraft III (once Blizzard shut down Blizzard North/Condor, and completely eliminated the art of Diablo) everybody went with the hyper-style comic book look. WoW then really exploded the trend.

You either do as real graphics as possible CoD, GoW with a little exaggeration or people went with a very similar, repetative comic look like Borderlands, Overwatch, Battleborn. I know art teams won't change much, but never deviating and making every series look the sames is tiresome.

Blizzard is the worse for this. Warcraft III, Diablo III, WoW, Hearthstone, Overwatch. A Blizz game is instantly recognizable because they all look the exact same.

The Witcher series has a great art style and Cyberpunk look really good so far. And at least you can tell they are two entirely different universes.
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timppu: Just look at this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpuwcINDHnQ A greasy ponytail, oily muscles, a saxophone... what else do you need, really?
No greasy ponytail, but how about this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwQ4BXLdRD4