Too much fairy dust (above) prompts The Founder to reach for his bug spray. I posited that The Founder regarded the skateboarder as a bug marring the perfection of his park, and he tried to eliminate him.
Above, theme park stuff.
Two of these sketches were done for the Japan level, the sun was for the Western level. I should have left more space for what I hoped would be beautiful Japanese lettering on the scrolls.
Here's a Tokyo sketch (above) that also wasn't approved, and its easy to guess why. Tokyo is envied throughout the world for its low rate of crime, and a situation like this just doesn't apply. It's too bad because it would have been fun to try to imagine what a cartoony "bad side of town" would look like.
Above, nixed for the same reason...also understandably. The nice thing about quick sketches is that when they don't fly they can be put aside without much time being lost.
Of course the Tokyo Level is riddled with ninjas (above).
Haw! Here's some generic villagers from the Fantasy Level. They're not nice guys and they're always trying to trip the skateboarder (boarder not shown here). The boarder has to be careful lest the Wandering Giant eat him along with the villagers. The giant isn't the main character on this level, he simply appears once in a while when the player least expects it.
Above, paper panels in the walls of a traditional Japanese house.
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1 comment:
WOW! We're all familiar with your world famous sketch style but seeing your work finished and inked is something else.
I'm referring specifically to the Japanese wall scrolls, the note says the clean ups aren't yours but whoever did them complemented your work greatly. Kudos!
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