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Marathon AndroidArts artworks

By Pablogo

This is a short collection of fan artwork created by Arne Niklas Jansson, also known as AndroidArts [androidarts.com]. He's a swedish artist I highly admire, so I decided to make this "guide" as a tribute. This is not official Bungie Material.

I included artist's notes of his drawings as well. Note that none of this is my creation and this aims to preserve his work and make it more accesible.

Award

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Category: Characters, Secrets, Story or Lore, Weapons

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6 Jul @ 4:02am

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Guide Index

Overview

Unarmoured Pfhor concept

Cyborg armour concepts

Rough older art

Marathon 20th anniversary poster

Source

Comments

Unarmoured Pfhor concept

"Apparently they are insect-like but they seem to have skin rather than segmentation in the art, which is fine for alien insects."

Cyborg armour concepts

"Marathon Mjolnir Battleroid armour concepts."

Rough older art

"These were done in 2010 using pencil and/or Photoshop. I played around a lot with extrapolations of the existing designs (or interpolations between them)."

"There isn't much art around of the player character (an unnamed "Cyborg"). I managed to find some in the manual, and a few pieces by Craig Mullins. I think it's fun with the swollen helmet and visor, so I played that up. The M.A.D.D and BOB (Born on Board) are friendly NPC characters. The VacBobs are perhaps a precursor to MasterChief...?"

" The Pfhor are the main antagonists. For some reason some of them insist on using close combat weapons, enabling you to kill them in droves with your flamer, flechette gun, SPNKR, etc... unless you punch them to death with your bare hands that is. Well, you're a state-of-the-art military cyborg so you can do awesome stuff like that.

Some of these designs are my own and not from the game. The robot on stilts can be seen on a blurry screenshot of an earlier version of the game. There's only one type of hovering Juggernaut in the game, but I drew one with legs and a smaller variant as well. Some kind of black sphere acts as a hovering engine, it seems. I like consistent design language like that."

"These unfortunate monsters have been enslaved by the Pfhor."

Marathon 20th anniversary poster

"I'm not sure how the final printed image looked exactly so here's my earlier version with some placeholder logos and fake annotations. While I did have a 11m big Battalion Wars image displayed for E3 at one point, this Marathon poster is by far the largest file I've worked with. The 500mb work file almost overheated my puter in the summer heat.

Each character was drawn on a separate canvas. I used my regular work method, consisting of a rough layer, line art layer, flat color layer, shadow layer and finally layer for painting on top of all that. When finished, I flattened, did BG transparency and plopped the figure onto the huge poster canvas where I tried to find a home for it. While the figures were relatively painless to draw, I was a bit overworked that month and developed some wrist problems. I actually programmed a micro-break timer to help me avoid such issues from here on."

Source

All artworks and comments were realized by Arne Niklas Jansson [androidarts.com]

Im just a fan of his work and Marathon trilogy who wanted to share his art with all of you, after seeing how much people liked the poster.

See you starside!

1 Comments

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Pablogo [author] 6 Jul @ 4:05am

conforme pasan los años, más me interesa la preservación del arte de los videojuegos, especialmente si son poco conocidos

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