I've been meaning to post this for a while now. Recently I accepted a commission to create a poster for the 30th anniversary of PlayStation. The client is in Italy and has produced a documentary called "PlayStation Impact". This is what I came up with for them.
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Hello Charles, I would love to see more concept designs of the Crash Nitro Kart bosses, if you have art to share from your archives. :) Thank you!
Hello! I have the entire pre-production art from Crash Nitro Kart. Not just what I did but the entire crew. I plan on featuring it someday but it's been very busy and I'm just not able to get to it right now. Thanks for bringing it up. It'll eventually come around.
AAAAH !!! Lara and Kazuya Mishima! LOL
Hello, thank you for your response. Sounds intriguing. I am looking forward to seeing some more concept art, hope you will have the time to share it someday! :)
Hey Charles, i was wondering if Crash Bandicoot has a tail.. does he? Maybe it's hidden in his pants and never shows it? Or does he NOT have a tail at all?
Hey Charles, i was wondering whether or not Crash Bandicoot had a tail or not.
Hello Crashiest. In some early development sketches I did he had a tail. It was later amputated from his design. Thus with the final version of Crash that we are familiar with today he is tailless.
Well, my headcanon was that his tail was hidden in his pants.. probably. If he has it, it would probably be very small anyway. Anyway, could you draw him with a tail sometime in the future? I could easily imagine him with a shorter Mickey Mouse-like tail, to not make him look like a rodent, or any other type of animals. A mickey mouse tail would be great.
Tawna has a tail. It's a little tuft of fur. It's similar to Crash's tail in his Willy Wombat phase. I can draw Crash again with a tail but something different from MM.
Hello, Mr. Zembillas. Sorry for the long comment, but first of all I'd like to start out by saying that this art is awesome - when I was a kid I had a PlayStation+PlayStation 2 with all the popular games and I remember when all these games like Oddworld and Spyro were brand new and they were just completely revolutionary for my prepubescent mind in comparison to what the previous generation consoles offered. For one, the old ND games (Crash Bandicoot + J&D) basically made up my whole childhood back in the day, and I think they're the reason why I am the person I am now. But the reason why those ones made such an impact on me wasn't because of the gameplay, it was because of the amazing art direction. I guess it's just cool to me that one of the people who made my childhood so memorable and awesome has an active online presence. I found out about your blog because of a post someone made online some years ago (2020 I think) saying that they were working on something for ND in the 90s and were given most of the original Crash concept art that you made for it. It looks like someone replied to him and said to send it to you so you could upload it on your blog or something, but from what I can tell nothing ever came out of it after that. If he did end up giving you the collection of your work, do you think you will upload it all in the future? It would be awesome for me to see all the original reference art that shaped one of my favorite games.
Hi Conrad S. and thank you for your extensive comment. I appreciate very much the sentiments you expressed and what the games I worked on mean to you. I was never given any of the art you mentioned. At the beginning of my collaboration with ND they kept my original work except for Jak and Daxter. I have all the original art I created for that game which amounts to 603 pages. I also have all the original art created by myself and the crew I assembled for Crash Nitro Kart. I should mention also that I have my original art from the creation of Spyro. That's the extent of it. I have a few copies of what I did for Crash 1, 2 and 3. I intend on publishing much of the work I mentioned. I just don't know when. Thanks again for your comment and for getting in touch.
Glad I checked your blog again. I'll show this piece to some cool people asap.
Also, I'll never give up waiting for your Project Y book.
Thank you for responding. So I take it that the anonymous person in the comments here -> https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/23145486/7625262038398041745 <- never replied to you on your email? (I swear I'm not a stalker going through every single one of your blog posts, I just looked at the blog archive to find the post made closest to the user's Reddit post since he had never followed up on this after his post.)
Thank you Mister Twister. I'll keep that in mind and hopefully will have something featuring Project Y available.
Conrad S there wasn't a follow up as I recall.
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