Fantasy Craft Art Preview

[Crafty_Pat]

We've released three pieces of preview art from Fantasy Craft...

Class Art: Soldier

Spell Art: Wall of Fire

Creature Art: Ooze

Enjoy!

[Agent 333]

Swanky. Trés bien.

[meadicus]

Class Art: Soldier

That's the soldier 

Very nice picture but it does look rather evil for a PC.

And what's the race, I see little horns.

[Mister Andersen]

Spell Art: Wall of Fire

It's a trap!

[Crafty_Pat]

That's the soldier 

Very nice picture but it does look rather evil for a PC.

And what's the race, I see little horns.

Ogre, and not all art needs to be heroic - there's at least a few folks out there who'll play it the other way. 

[Sletchman]

Now that is some sexy stuff.  I absolutely love the fighter art.  And I gotta admit the old "scantily clad mage type" is a cliche I dig.  If this is an indication of hwo the finished book will look it'll be eye candy as well as crunch.

Curious: is there any possibility of getting this book in Colour?

[MilitiaJim]

Curious: is there any possibility of getting this book in Colour?

Color tends to be expensive.     So maybe.  I would pony up for a limited run color edition though.

The ogre looks a bit bestial, and I'm partial to pointy ears, but the skulls are a nice touch.  From what critter is the skin on his shield?

[Crafty_Pat]

Curious: is there any possibility of getting this book in Colour?

Not likely. The book was conceived and realized top-to-bottom in B&W, which would make translating it to color... problematic. You'll see what we mean when we preview the interiors. They're... different.

[Crafty_Pat]

The ogre looks a bit bestial, and I'm partial to pointy ears, but the skulls are a nice touch.  From what critter is the skin on his shield?

What would you like it to be? I see a mouthy pech myself.

[Krensky]

The ogre looks a bit bestial, and I'm partial to pointy ears, but the skulls are a nice touch.  From what critter is the skin on his shield?

What would you like it to be? I see a mouthy pech myself.

I was thinking of the user down the hall who appears to smear peanut butter over his keyboard.

[Desertpuma]

I wsa hoping the pdf might be in color at least.....

[meadicus]

I wsa hoping the pdf might be in color at least.....

That would require the crafty team to produce two completely seperate versions of the book. And colour art would no-doubt require repeat versions of all the art work.

So a lot of work for probably not that much gain.

[Morgenstern]

Now that is some sexy stuff.  I absolutely love the fighter art.  And I gotta admit the old "scantily clad mage type" is a cliche I dig.  If this is an indication of how the finished book will look it'll be eye candy as well as crunch.

I was a little worried we weren't going to meet the minimum hawt elf quota required for publication before the wall of fire piece came in .

I am very pleased with what our art buget got us.

[Morgenstern]

Color tends to be expensive.

Color is expensive at multiple stages. Getting the color art usually arround 3-4 times more expensive than black and white, and for a company that was founded by a couple of writers, art is already our biggest expense when preparing a book. The difference in printing costs for color is more on the order of 5 times as expensive.

[player4]

That is a skinned halfing on his shield.

The soldier has a skinned humanoid on his shield!

I have never seen anything scarier in a fantasy suppliment.  I literally said, "Oh shit."  I would crap myself & run crying in the other direction if a GM ever showed me that picture & told me that's who I was fighting.

I must own this book.  Mastercraft be damned, I must own this book!