Searching for the loading screen author

[moroz1999]

Sometimes I'm guessing the loading screens authors by combination of style, geography, colleagues, publishing labels or their works on other platforms.
I want to make this topic to openly discuss each case before adding the information into ZXDB.

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=35513 - this one has a nice loading screen of 1994 year with RJ painted on it. The only RJ from Slovakia I know is Radoslav Javor, who fits perfectly by style (try to compare his textures on this image in question and in-game graphics from 1993).


I'm 99% sure that RJ here is Rado Javor.

[moroz1999]

Another one discussion has started in ZXDB fixes.

viewtopic.php?p=106234#p106234 - my original post
viewtopic.php?p=106236#p106236 - response by @StooB

I'm sure that Implosion's loading screen author is actually John Cassells.
pros: He's worked in same development team, he has really similar style in ACE 2 and Star Wars images and he has done the loading screen for c64 version which has a really similar layout.
cons: his signature was CAS, not S (if this is really S). I've seen really many cases with different signatures used by same artist on loading screens, but this is a strong point anyway.

What do you think, can this be John Cassels?

[Stefan]

cons: his signature was CAS, not S (if this is really S). I've seen really many cases with different signatures used by same artist on loading screens, but this is a strong point anyway.

What do you think, can this be John Cassels?

Do we have other sources for the loading screen? In a previous thread someone thought "Doc" was the loading screen artist, however "Doc" was the cracker. Is "S" the artist or another cracker?

[moroz1999]

Do we have other sources for the loading screen?

It seems like re-releases also have same S letter on the loading screen.