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A recurrent visual motif/template that would have been everywhere in packaging/promo art of classic games I mean.

(Mods: pls be gentle, this is a legitimate question pertinent to this board)

>> No.8813290

>>8813279
90s Sonic rip off tude' mascots, both jap and western.

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>>8813279
Watercolor, airbrush, or oil paint for cover art was everywhere back then.

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>>8813279
Frazetta clones and even traces were the go to for fantasy games in the 80s. A lot of RTS games had a person on the cover with focus on their face, I think Westwood started this trend with the Dune 2 genesis box art but CnC would do cement it.

>> No.8814129

Schwarzenegger looking guy brandishing a weapon

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>>8813473
>>8814129
On odd occasion, actual art by someone like Frazetta, Vallejo, Bell, Brom, etc, but when it comes to just bottom of the barrel trash, it'll be a trace of such a work, or a trace of a still from a famous movie scene, maybe or maybe not altering the celebrity's face. Pic related has been ripped off for countless games, and hell traced artwork can be seen on even nice stuff, such as Castlevania and Contra.

The quality of the ripoff varies, sometimes it's a pretty good effort, but it's not unusual for it to be rough or off. Sometimes good games have crude ripoff art.

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>>8814770
huh

>> No.8815549 [DELETED] 

H.R giger aesthetic

>> No.8815678

Movie poster and comic book cover cliches. Sword guy with sword aloft! Scantily clad women! Animals doing stuff! Etc.

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>>8815173
The Wolf 3d cover is by Julie Bell, wife of Boris Vallejo and a damn fine artist who has done a lot of game covers from that era.

>> No.8817141

>>8813279
Good topic, I'll bump

>> No.8817143

>>8813279
those aren't the same game?

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>>8815705
Love her work, but I never cared for this one, the Cyberdemon looks too cartoonish compared to its in-game appearance, and Doomguy looks too much like Reb Brown, the backdrop and foreground looking kind of plain and underdetailed (but perhaps this work wasn't actually finished).
Brom got the monster down much better and with better looking surroundings, and Doomguy facing away from the viewer helps keep him more anonymous. I do love Bell's cover for Wolfenstein 3D though, even with the weapons being wrong (that AR15 being at least three decades out of place, and B.J's big gun not even existing in the game itself), I just love the poses and the look on B.J's face.

I always loved her unused Shadow Warrior boxart a lot.