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Re: Cover artists

Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2019 7:58 pm
by Rorthron
Kat Trap - Oliver Frey

(Crash 35)
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Re: Cover artists

Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2019 8:12 pm
by Rorthron
Road Frog - Bob Wakelin

(Crash 18)
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Re: Cover artists

Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 5:58 pm
by richl
Some more names, all from Reaktor games, and all taken from the credits section on the rear of their respective inlays:

Challenge of the Gobots - Eddy King (pic below from my own scan)
Deadringer - Richard Edington (inlay is in the archive if you want to check! ;))
Mountie Mick's Deathride - Johnny Johnstone (retrogames.co.uk, cropped version below for convenience)
Out of This World - Jim McCarthy (retrogames.co.uk, cropped version below for convenience, taken from C64 release but same artwork)

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Richard Edington has come up before on another Ariolasoft title (Bride Of Frankenstein) and I think Eddy King is going to be the same guy credited as Eddie King on Triaxos (again, from retrogames.co.uk) but who knows which spelling is the "correct" one?:

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Re: Cover artists

Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 7:32 pm
by Rorthron
Napoleon at War - Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse

The inlay attributes the painting to "Mauzaine after Gros", but I think this is a typographical error.

Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse painted the image, as a copy of Antoine-Jean Gros' original

https://www.akg-images.co.uk/archive/Na ... HKV8Z.html

https://www.napoleon.org/en/history-of- ... uary-1807/

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Re: Cover artists

Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 7:48 pm
by Rorthron
Cromwell at War 1642-1645 - Samuel Cooper

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_ ... Cooper.jpg

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Re: Cover artists

Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 9:31 pm
by Rorthron
Zulu War - William Henry Dugan

Per the inlay.

https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/sie ... ift-181818

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Re: Cover artists

Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 9:54 pm
by Rorthron
Further verification of the "dodgy post":
Rorthron wrote: Sun Jan 20, 2019 1:22 pmDragonsbane
Smugglers Cove
Blood 'n' Gutz
Crash 14 confirms these are by Steinar Lund, as already recorded in the archive.

http://www.crashonline.org.uk/14/oncover.htm

Re: Cover artists

Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 10:01 pm
by Rorthron
The Drive-In - Boots Hill

Per inlay.
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Re: Cover artists

Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 10:13 pm
by Rorthron
Chaos - Julek Heller

Per the instructions:
Cover by Julek Heller
Production Artwork by Brian Cumming
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Re: Cover artists

Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2019 7:00 am
by Rorthron
Dark Star - Dave De Leuw

There is apparently an Easter egg with this information:
There is a hidden message in the code: (c) Design Design Software Awful game concept & coding by Simon Brattel Awful pictures by J.P.Ritman and Inlay by Dave De-Leuw
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/equinox/ ... design.php
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Re: Cover artists

Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2019 12:55 pm
by Rorthron
Shakespeare - Henry IV Part One (Penguin) - Paul Hogarth

Per signature
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Re: Cover artists

Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2019 1:01 pm
by Rorthron
Shakespeare - Julius Caesar (Penguin) - Paul Hogarth

https://www.bookogs.com/book/192368-julius-caesar
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Re: Cover artists

Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2019 1:05 pm
by Rorthron
Shakespeare - Merchant of Venice (Penguin) - Paul Hogarth

https://www.bookogs.com/book/192392-the ... -of-venice
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Re: Cover artists

Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2019 5:56 pm
by Einar Saukas
Rorthron wrote: Sun Jan 20, 2019 4:38 pm One other thing I unearthed:

Jewels of Darkness - James Horsler (internal art, literally "pictures"). Listed in the instructions.

Per Moby Games he also contributed internal art to:

Silicon Dreams
The Price of Magik
Red Moon
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4
The Worm in Paradise

https://www.mobygames.com/developer/she ... Id,101313/
What's "internal art"? Does it mean in-game graphics?

Re: Cover artists

Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2019 6:31 pm
by Rorthron
Einar Saukas wrote: Tue Jan 29, 2019 5:56 pm What's "internal art"? Does it mean in-game graphics?
No: inlay art that's not the cover (I think). The inlay credit just says "pictures", though, so it's not entirely clear

Re: Cover artists

Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2019 6:56 pm
by StooB
Rorthron wrote: Tue Jan 29, 2019 6:31 pm
Einar Saukas wrote: Tue Jan 29, 2019 5:56 pm What's "internal art"? Does it mean in-game graphics?
No: inlay art that's not the cover (I think). The inlay credit just says "pictures", though, so it's not entirely clear
"Digital artist responsible for the design and creation of all the art work in a number of games: Red Moon, Return to Eden, Emerald Isle, The Worm in Paradise, The Price of Magic and the Secret Diary of Adrian Mole."

https://www.bark.com/en/company/james-horsler/0AVK/

Re: Cover artists

Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2019 8:59 pm
by Einar Saukas
StooB wrote: Tue Jan 29, 2019 6:56 pm
Rorthron wrote: Tue Jan 29, 2019 6:31 pm No: inlay art that's not the cover (I think). The inlay credit just says "pictures", though, so it's not entirely clear
"Digital artist responsible for the design and creation of all the art work in a number of games: Red Moon, Return to Eden, Emerald Isle, The Worm in Paradise, The Price of Magic and the Secret Diary of Adrian Mole."

https://www.bark.com/en/company/james-horsler/0AVK/
This sounds like in-game graphics. The term "digital artist" wouldn't apply to cover/inlay art in the 1980s.

Re: Cover artists

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 6:57 am
by Juan F. Ramirez
I found this on his personal web page: http://www.art-of-james-horsler.co.uk/about.htm

(fifth paragraph)

"My first professional art job in the 1980’s was working with Level 9 Computers doing vector art for games. I had eight colours to work with including black and white!!"

So it seems he was referring to in-game graphics.

Re: Cover artists

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 7:05 am
by Juan F. Ramirez
Besides, if we check the Mobygames entry for one of the games he work for, The Price of Magik, in the 'cover art' tab, we search for the Spectrum version and there are some scans, the inlay but also the instructions:

https://www.mobygames.com/game/price-of ... Id,419442/

and it says, in the credits section:

"Pictures: James Horsler
[...]
Cover Picture: Godfrey Dowson"


So he was not clearly the cover author. He was referring to the in-game graphics.
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Re: Cover artists

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 12:04 pm
by Einar Saukas
I just finished adding to ZXDB everything posted in this thread. It will be in the next update.

Thanks a lot for all contributions! Please keep them coming!

Re: Cover artists

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 12:50 pm
by Rorthron
BTW Simon Brattel kindly confirmed to me that "most (nearly all) of the original artwork [for Crystal and Design Design] was done by Dave [De Leuw], but there were different versions of some games and later re-releases that weren't."

Re: Cover artists

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2019 11:47 am
by Juan F. Ramirez
Gun Law by Vortex Software.

According to the instructions available in [mention]Mort[/mention] 's archive.org site, it says:

"ILLUSTRATION BY BOB HABERFIELD"

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Re: Cover artists

Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2019 9:30 pm
by Juan F. Ramirez
Steinar Lund has confirmed today in his Instagram account the cover of 'The Vindicators' by Domark:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BuTIT6ahqh2 ... i5w26gkwqa
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Re: Cover artists

Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2019 9:15 pm
by Juan F. Ramirez
Arcticfox by Electronic Arts.

According to the credits in the inlay, "Artwork: John Burton"


https://ia801607.us.archive.org/zipview ... inlay2.jpg

(From [mention]Mort[/mention] 's archive.org site )

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Re: Cover artists

Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2019 9:53 pm
by Audionautas
According to the in-game credits, Rodney Matthews is the artist behind The Fury cover art. Game developed by Creative Reality and released by Martech in 1988.

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