> We didn’t have Internet in the office back then so research was a bit of a problem. Making things up was the way to go, nothing like Google to make life easy back then. I remember asking Gary if I could go the library to photocopy some pictures from books to help me out! An artist back then had to know way more than an artist (who tends to get pigeonholed) these days. There was no such thing as an environment artist back then...so we did everything. Game artwork, interface (I was font boy for months!), cut scenes, animation. If we didn’t know how to do it we just learnt as we went along. Quite mad really but it seemed to work as production values were so much lower back then.
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> We didn’t have Internet in the office back then so research was a bit of a problem. Making things up was the way to go, nothing like Google to make life easy back then. I remember asking Gary if I could go the library to photocopy some pictures from books to help me out! An artist back then had to know way more than an artist (who tends to get pigeonholed) these days. There was no such thing as an environment artist back then...so we did everything. Game artwork, interface (I was font boy for months!), cut scenes, animation. If we didn’t know how to do it we just learnt as we went along. Quite mad really but it seemed to work as production values were so much lower back then.