The project that will never be... Part 1

While at Gen Con I unexpectedly got permission to share with you the following images that I produced for a project that will never be. I got this permission under the agreement that I can not discuss ANY details about this project... not even the company I produced these for. SO, with that in mind I ask that you not try to guess who or what this was and for whom they were produced. I would hate to have to pull this post down.

Way back in late 2010 (has it really been that long?) I was asked to design some turnarounds and I threw myself into the project and gave it all I had. After an unexpectedly huge set of revisions AND that project eventually getting killed after I had done my part... well, I was a little bummed out. BUT, nearly 3 years later I can now share my efforts on the project that will never be. It did not work out the way I had hoped, but at least now I can share with you all the work I did...
 

Unproduced figure #1

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Unproduced base #1

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Here are some of the initial concepts that I did for this piece. Now a days I do all my early concepts and thumbnails digitally to save time and to make it easier on myself... not on this project. I was working on paper the entire time. I wanted to make a paper trail for the entire process... a process I almost never got to show off...

Unproduced base concepts

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Unproduced figure concepts

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SO... I mentioned an "unexpectedly huge set of revisions" earlier. There some confusion, a miscommunication, a change of plans... something... and after I had produced the figure's turnaround, which as you can see evolved juuuuuuuust a little bit of drawing, I had to start over and redo it all. Apparently I and the client were on two separate pages as far as the piece was going to look in the round. I was of the school of "ALL THE TENTACLES" and they were of the school of "some of the tentacles"... of course the clients wins and I redrew it all. Lesson learned! I introduced a new work flow for these types of projects. Here is how the first version turned out so you can compare and contrast...

Unproduced figure #1 - VERSION 1

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That is all for another exciting Monday on the blog, see you back here on Wednesday! Until then...

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