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Thursday 15 January 2015

Pixel perfect


I've been wanting to show you this artwork for a while and now I can. A while back, internationally renowned art studio Clonefront Entertainment were asked to create digital colour paintings of many of Russ Nicholson's iconic Fabled Lands drawings. For a long while these amazing paintings have languished in legal limbo. The details of that are hearsay so I won't repeat them here but in any case, as derived works, the paintings always remained Russ's copyright.

But now Mikael Louys of Megara Entertainment has come to the rescue, sealing a deal with Russ and Arpad Olbey, CEO of Clonefront, that will allow him to use the colour paintings in a range of products, starting with the hardback edition of The Keep of the Lich Lord (from which these two pictures are taken) and moving on later next year to an all-new Fabled Lands role-playing project.


And not only that - I just looked on Clonefront's website and came across this stunning image of a manta car from Heart of Ice. We were planning to use this as the cover of the epub3 version but that, of course, never happened. That was a blow, but there's always a silver lining - in this case, the strong possibility of a multi-platform app from Cubus Games, who did such a great job adapting Necklace of Skulls. That won't use this artwork, but something totally new, original and unexpected by Jaume Carballo's madly skilled creative team. Watch this space.

9 comments:

  1. Hello Dave, is there any news on book 7?you mentioned it a little while ago - am I correct in saying it was to be funded through kick starter? Is there a confirmed launch date?

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    1. We're licencing Megara Entertainment to run a Kickstarter for The Serpent King's Domain. (I avoid calling it FL7 because people on Kickstarter might assume that meant they need to have played the other six FL books first.) I think they plan to run that in the second half of this year. Keep watching the blog, I won't fail to give plenty of notice.

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  2. Pretty pictures! Will look forward to hearing more about Serpent King's Domain.

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  3. Any news on Way of the Tiger: Redeemer? I think Megara has it in stock as a real thing at this point.

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    1. If so, then I guess you can order it. Other than that I know nothing about it, though I did see David Walters' story outline before he began writing and, if Mark and Jamie let him stick to that, I can attest that it should be a worthy sequel.

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  4. I was really hoping to order it through here. Any idea when Fabled Lands will get.

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    1. Redeemer is nothing to do with us. At a guess, the copyright belongs to David Walters, Mark Smith and Jamie Thomson, and Megara licenced the hardback edition. That's all I know.

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  5. I've made that pic of the demon storm my desktop background.

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