February 5, 2013

Wookiee Navigator

Here is the first of my Star Wars work for Fantasy Flight Games new line of Star Wars gaming products. This piece is from their new Star Wars card game core set that came out in January. It is a might Wookiee and the card is aptly named... Wookiee Navigator.

Yes, the Wookiee is at a gunner station - You don't sit in one place the entire time you are in a star ship, remember that time when Han was in a gunner station?

No, this is NOT Chewbacca - From the very beginning the card had to be very much the "NOT Chewbacca" card, hence the vastly different fur color and pattern.

Now that the two things I keep hearing OVER AND OVER again are out of the way, here is the Wookiee Navigator...

Wookiee Navigator
© 2012 Fantasy Flight Games

I think in fact he is saying, "RAWR!" in the illustration. Here is the drawing that I did for this piece...

Wookiee Navigator - Drawing
© 2012 Fantasy Flight Games

It was very important that this piece read, "NOT Chewbacca" so after I submitted the original version of the final there was some concern that the piece still looked too much like Chewbacca. If you are at all familiar with how Chewbacca looks it would be immediately clear that this was not everybody's favorite Wookiee. The call to change it still came down and my art director was there to save me from myself and made sure they got the changes they wanted to see. Here is the original version...

ORIGINAL Wookiee Navigator
© 2012 Fantasy Flight Games

Here is a progression of the painting in 8 easy steps.... it is just that easy and that hard...

Wookiee Navigator - Process progression
© 2012 Fantasy Flight Games

And now a handy dandy side by side comparison of the two final stages of the Wookiee Navigator. I was really resistant to the final production Wookiee for a long time, but I think it is finally growing on me. It is hard to have such a major change made to the first piece done for a product that has been a love of mine since I was three years old. But I got over it... maybe...

Wookiee Navigator - final and original comparison
© 2012 Fantasy Flight Games

Last but not least, here is the how the actual card turned out. I think it is funny that even though it says 'Wookiee Navigator' and nowhere does it say Chewbacca people are still complaining that Chewbacca is the wrong color... oh well...

Wookiee Navigator Card
© 2012 Fantasy Flight Games
 
RAWR!

4 comments:

  1. Awesome! Must've been cool to get to work on a Star Wars themed piece :)

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    1. It was! ...though it got a little stressful with such a major revision. But Zoe got me through it in one piece. Fortunately, all my Star Wars assignments since have been gone much smoother. :)

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  2. Nice! You may not like the revision, but I think the darker wookie reads really well.

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