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So I get this new job testing an educational software suite and the team includes AV folks and artists and sound guys etc, as well as the usual programmers and testers and administration.
Turns out the AV guys have a couple of awards between them, don't remember which ones but like Emmys or Grammys or something for work they did in previous jobs for HBO.
But today the finishing blow hit. There's this amusing woman in the art department upstairs who starts her Halloween preparations the month after the prior Halloween ends. So it wasn't unusual to see a "Día de los Muertos" shadow box on her desk. So, knowing her morbid fascination, I ask her if she's ever heard of the Video Game "Grim Fandango" and she says, "Oh yeah. That was what, 98, right? Right before Lucas Arts hired me."
*thud*
That was my jaw hitting the floor.
Turns out she doesn't do video games (or play them for that matter) but she does do art and did art for the Lucas Art's educational division for a while. So for "reference purposes" she'd go across the hall to the game guys, photocopy their concept art and put them together for herself.
I just held in my hands and flipped through the concept art for not only Grim Fandango but also Full Throttle, Day of the Tentacle, and a bunch of non-descript Star Wars art. (There was a dude that had repulsor lifts for legs. Any ideas?)
I wonder if she'd let me take it home for the weekend to scan.
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Cheater‽
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« Reply #1 on: September 02, 2008, 01:35:06 PM » |
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Do it. Now.
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« Reply #2 on: September 02, 2008, 01:44:43 PM » |
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« Reply #3 on: September 02, 2008, 01:47:51 PM » |
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Hello! I am here to boogie. Shall we?
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« Reply #4 on: September 02, 2008, 02:31:14 PM » |
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What they all said before me.
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“I have brought you T, Master. It took quite a lot of searching on your Galaxy’s non-holographic communications network, but no man is beyond the reach of a Sith.”
Meanwhile, poor Mr. T was left to hang upside down in the middle of the room, informing us that we were both fools, to be pitied.
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« Reply #5 on: September 02, 2008, 02:32:09 PM » |
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WOW. AWESOME!
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alright, let's see what we can see
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« Reply #6 on: September 02, 2008, 02:43:49 PM » |
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do it or we'll do it for you!
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KennEH!
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« Reply #7 on: September 02, 2008, 03:05:06 PM » |
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You have the best co-workers, period.
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Madness takes its toll please have exact change.
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« Reply #8 on: September 02, 2008, 03:26:29 PM » |
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Have you done it yet?
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« Reply #9 on: September 03, 2008, 09:45:17 AM » |
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Have you done it yet?
I just did it......but Picachu made a mess on the carpets! |
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« Reply #10 on: September 03, 2008, 10:38:02 AM » |
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This post just drifted somewhere no post should have to go.
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Cymon
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« Reply #11 on: September 03, 2008, 03:27:08 PM » |
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My main concern is pissing off the mighty LucasArts. But one little post on one little forum couldn't do any harm.
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« Reply #12 on: September 04, 2008, 12:45:59 PM » |
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Have you done it yet?
I just did it......but Picachu made a mess on the carpets! Shame. That rug really tied the room together. |
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« Reply #13 on: September 04, 2008, 12:48:06 PM » |
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And if you get a cease and desist, you could just quickly take it down, and someone else would up it to 4chan!
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« Reply #14 on: September 04, 2008, 01:50:26 PM » |
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I would have cared about pissing off LucasArts before George Lucas and co. pissed on every childhood memory I had of adventure games, Star Wars, and most recently Indiana Jones. Dooo iiiiit!  |
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« Reply #15 on: September 04, 2008, 02:50:40 PM » |
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Plus with all the free time you'll have when you are in jail, you'll become an indie rockstar in no time!
(plus all the new friends)
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« Reply #16 on: September 04, 2008, 11:54:01 PM » |
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Plus with all the free time you'll have when you are in jail, you'll become an indie rockstar in no time!
(plus all the new friends) More than friends. |
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« Reply #17 on: September 05, 2008, 09:43:27 AM » |
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Plus with all the free time you'll have when you are in jail, you'll become an indie rockstar in no time!
(plus all the new friends) More than friends. Friends with benefits? :shudder: Okay, seriously, the last thing I want is to be someone's buttery cornhole and I'd feel even WORSE if I went through the time and effort to scan in tons of papers to do it. So all joking aside guys, I know I may sound a little paranoid here, but I do not want to piss of Darth Vader when someone diggs the thread. I'd love to share this because it was awesome, but I don't know if all that effort is worth the risk. |
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« Reply #18 on: September 05, 2008, 10:21:11 AM » |
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Honestly I think you'd be pissing off not only lucas but the original authors of the drawings if you released that publicly.
OTOH if you keep it privately and only release by, say, PM or any other non public mean, it should be okayish.
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KennEH!
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« Reply #19 on: September 05, 2008, 01:18:12 PM » |
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Make a zip with a password and only hand it out to you inner circle. Which sadly probably wouldn't be me.  |
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