Czacen's Cool Concepts

As a kind of offshoot to Czacen's recent project to give classic Wing Commander ships a more contemporary feel, he's undertaken the task of creating some very cool concept art to improve his technique.

In an attempt to better my rather shabby concept art skills I have been training hard on building up a few techniques. While I am far from close to getting good at it, I have managed to do a few practice pieces that people might like. Please feel free to comment on them, and also please note that these are not 2010 redesigns but rather just 2 illustrations in the concept art speed painting technique commonly used by game and move designers today. I also have taken some artistic liberty with the engine/intake glows just to add some excitement to the images.

It takes me roughly a 4-5 hrs for one of these renderings. I did these by hand but directly in Photoshop. I used some 3d elements to place the perspective properly.

Making the Game: Options

An options menu isn't as sexy as a fighter or a universe map, but this is interesting all the same -- especially because it suggests a point at which Wing Commander Prophecy could be played at three different resolutions--something fans didn't manage to add until recently!

These updates are thanks to John "Captain Johnny" Guentzel, who provided several CD image archives of material used by the Wing Commander Prophecy development team!

Please note that the "Download" link points to an older-style Visio file; these do not open in Microsoft's current Visio viewer. We have converted the VSD into a graphic which can be viewed by clicking on the document thumbnail.

Options Download (29 kb) Date: July 23, 1997 Project: Wing Commander Prophecy Donated By: John Guentzel Pages: n/a