indiana jones Indiana Jones games concept art

[MichaelSon]

I was wondering if there is any concept art circulating around - especially for the old Lucasfilm games / LucasArts adventures.

In particular I am interested in the greatest adventure game of al time: 

 

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis.

 

While its predecessor The Last Crusade was probably created without any concept art in mind = directly on computer, the background art in Fate of Atlantis looks like like there were proper backgrounds first drawn and then scanned and rendered down to fit the 256 color palette.

 

And of course the concept paintings are also interesting to be seen, as well as anything which helps to understand how this fantastic game was developed.

Unfortunately there is not much circulating around, But there's been a couple intense interviews in the recent past with Noah Falstein and Hal Barwood.

So maybe something may have finally surfaced.

And that's why I am reaching out here.

 

Also all the other games are quite interesting as well.

Especially with the new game The Great Circle on the horizon it would be nice to revive the oldies once again.

 

Edited November 3 by MichaelSon

[TimeGentleman]

Bill Eaken says in his interview with this very site that "Towards the end of the project we were able to scan drawings. But I'm sure that was only about 10% of the backgrounds."

 

So if they do still exist, there won't be that many of them and it sounds like they'd just be black and white pencil drawings. (Even within that interview, though, he also seems to say that they didn't use scanning at all, and Colette Michaud's "The Evolution of Lucasfilm Games: THE ART DEPARTMENT" article for The Adventurer also says that scanning only started with Monkey 2.)

 

Edited November 4 by TimeGentleman

[MichaelSon]

Yeah, I figured that out today myself as well.

But still, any concept art would be interesting to see.

I cannot imagine that they did almost no concept graphics on paper.

And what about the newer Indy games? There should definitely be something out there.

[ThunderPeel2001]

On 11/3/2024 at 10:33 PM, MichaelSon said:

the background art in Fate of Atlantis looks like like there were proper backgrounds first drawn and then scanned and rendered down to fit the 256 color palette.

 

They really don't. They have all the hallmarks of being drawn directly into a paint program. The gradients, the little details, it all points very clearly to being pixel art I'm afraid.

 

That doesn't mean there wasn't some concept art, though. 

Edited November 5 by ThunderPeel2001