Treilaux3 Posted July 28, 2004 Share Posted July 28, 2004 Does anyone know where I could find the artist or better yet prints of the old atari artwork? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neotokeo2001 Posted July 28, 2004 Share Posted July 28, 2004 No idea. But Atari did have some cool artwork. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Han Posted July 28, 2004 Share Posted July 28, 2004 Yupp... cool artwork. I bought many a games based on the cover ... I would like to know to who made some of these covers... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snoopy Posted July 29, 2004 Share Posted July 29, 2004 I must agree, there was alot of elaborate artwork for some Atari games. However I never remember seeing any credit given for any artwork. Maybe Atari had the same policy with their artists that they had originally with the programmers....keeping the artists annomyous just as they did with the programmers. Just a theory... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Room 34 Posted July 29, 2004 Share Posted July 29, 2004 Of course... Atari never wanted to give anyone credit for their work! I have noticed the artist's signature on the edge of these watercolors a few times, but I can never make out what it says. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Room 34 Posted July 29, 2004 Share Posted July 29, 2004 Anybody here read the New Yorker? I think the artist who did the "cartoon" style art for the early Atari catalogs might be Gahan Wilson, who's currently a New Yorker cartoonist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
video game addict Posted July 29, 2004 Share Posted July 29, 2004 I have a list on my computer, it was something that Scott Stilphen had posted before. I saved it when I saw it. Interesting stuff. I love the early Atari art too! atari_2600_label_artists.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sku_u Posted July 29, 2004 Share Posted July 29, 2004 Does anyone know where I could find the artist or better yet prints of the old atari artwork? My wife has the ability to paint these images, although it wouldn't be cheap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxglove9 Posted July 29, 2004 Share Posted July 29, 2004 The early Atari boxes were some great artwork, a shame the artists weren't even allowed to initial anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mos6507 Posted July 29, 2004 Share Posted July 29, 2004 I think the early artwork that showed a collage of various angles (which typifies early Atari 2600 cartridge artwork) was done by sports illustrators. This seems to be the convention in that genre. Sports Art: Game Art: http://www.atariage.com/2600/boxes/b_Sears...chase_front.jpg What do you think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregory DG Posted July 29, 2004 Share Posted July 29, 2004 I always like the art because it conveyed the images that the 2600 itself just couldn't do. They definitely helped the imagination process. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godzilla Posted July 30, 2004 Share Posted July 30, 2004 I agree, I loved the art on the boxes and on the catalogs. It's funny, but the barely representative graphics of the 2600 let my imagination do a lot more 'work' than modern games, so in ways it's the infocom syndrome where if my imagination is making the graphics then they are miles beyond what any console can ever render... Maybe that's part of the reason why 2600 games or any video game really, imho, never aged for me because of graphics. To me the game play experience is what was pinnacle. 2600 0WNZ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iguana Posted July 30, 2004 Share Posted July 30, 2004 I seem to remember a thread very early in my posting here (back in 2001) that someone knew it and they even had a site fo the guys work. I wish I could remember that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveD Posted July 30, 2004 Share Posted July 30, 2004 Good question. I briefly researched some Atari artists for a project I was (and will eventually again) work on. But in my case I was more concerned with the original designers/illustrators of the arcade game sideart/marquees. These games (Centipede, Gravitar, Tempest, etc.) had such a unique and cool style to them that I wanted to try and recapture some of it in my illustrations. The "Street Race" & "Dragon's Den" images in particular: http://cinemarcade.com/desktops.html But during my research I did come across a couple names. George Opperman... http://www.ipdb.org/search.pl?searchtype=a...orge%20Opperman ...apparently worked at Atari early on as an Art Director and did some of the early design stuff. Some of those pinball images look kind of similar to the console box images as well. And in a review I found with the programmer of Gravitar, there is a reference to a Brad Chaboya who apparently designed the artwork for the Gravitar cabinet among many others: http://www.cooganphoto.com/gravitar/interview.html That last link promised a more in-depth interview with Brad which I think would be very interesting. But seeing as it hasn't been updated since April or so I don't know if we'll ever see that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godzilla Posted July 30, 2004 Share Posted July 30, 2004 Man, I dig athena :-) It's a shame there weren't more classic era BG games. At least that one Inty game is pretty close, and still a damn good game too. I loved the voice version 'hello commander, computer reporting' and Im still trying to find the mattell handheld for a reasonable price :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starman Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 I asked this question a few months back and got nothing in return. Apparently NO artwork in anything better than a box scan exists. It's a shame . Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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