some BGs to show and free 2 use *EDITED 1 more pic*

[remixor]

NICE TRY!

Superman Cartoon Maker...

Honestly people can we stop this?

Holy crap, Eric, I almost had a friggin heart attack when I read this.




Anyway, excellent job on the backgrounds!  It's truly amazing to me that you did this solely on the computer.  Very impressive.  And those locations sure bring back memories

[jaz]

Hey,
thank for your feedback everybody.

Erm, here´s one more pic to show. It´s not a very good one, but it´s a pure nostalgia for me because this is the very first hicolor pic I´ve ever done. Before that I was working in low color and my favourite tool was Autodesk Animator Pro. It was great for animating but I used to use it for BGs as well. Then a friend of mine called saying "Hey I just got something you have to see!!" This "somethig" was Fractal Design Painter program. I was instantly amazed by it´s possibillities and I started to play with it at once. I spent about an hour exploring the program and this was the outcome:



As you can see it has as much colors as possible since it was my first encounter with 16 million color palette and lightsources are weird.

As I said I drew this in well under an hour (it´s not very original though, I remember that I saw a cliff like that in some comics before) and I was like: "man, It´s cool! I can make the backgrounds in no time!! Of course I found out soon that it´s not that easy to make a real one:-)

That´s it.

BTW: I repeat if anybody is interested in making a game using the African BGs, go ahead. I could even draw one or two more in this style if needed and design some characters too. (As an excercisse for my planned game)

See ya!

[big brother]

Animator Pro was the pimp shiznit! I used that program sooo much back in the day. I'd prolly still use it if it worked with XP. Oh well.
The later Animator Studio, even with its myriad of features and avi support, could not hold a candle to the original (and I should know, I was one of the beta testers).
Heh.

[remixor]

Beautiful work!

[MadReizka]

Yeah, love the bgs. Really nice work you got there. I love the details.

[Haddas]

the newest you show on this thread is my favourite!
I LOVE the bg, even if it's a slight rip-off from a cartoon. I like bgs drawn in this style, unfortuantely, there are many realistic ones. Which I don't like. 'tis the style of "Me no  like"

Great stuff mon and good luck on your mission.

*runs around the house shouting: OOGAOOGAOOGA!!!3!

[GarageGothic]

I really like the blue light on the underside of the rock outcrop on the left. Reminds me of The Dig. You really should do a tutorial.

[jaz]

Wow,
my very first thread and it became a hot topic!!!
(sure it is because of Andail´s plea to wait a little before putting anything on internet. I´ve waited for seven years before showing my work to public )
Anyway, thanks for everybody´s positive comments (especially Hadas´s ) I didn´t think the last one was much good but taking a second look even in reduced color it looks OK. It encoureges me  to start my gamemaking career .

To GarageGothic: I´m planning to make a game. That means I will have to do some backgrounds. In this case I´m maybe going to do a tut on some of them but again, it all has been said thousand times before and shown by far better artists, There are some tuts by Bill Tiller on internet for example and this guy cannot be beaten IMO .

And yes, the blue light on the underside of the cliff was of course LucasArts inspired. More by Full Throttle I think since I´ve never played The Dig (shame, shame ).

[Paper Carnival]

Wow! They are so great! I think the second one is the best. They somehow remind me MI3...

As for the last one, it is still good, though it doesn't match the other backgrounds that much. Oh, and the bottom center of it looks like a skull .

[earlwood]

Pretty cool, I wish you could have finished the game...say, did you atleast get a character sprite or two done? If you have,can you post them on the forum? I would really love to see how you drew characters to blend with these BG.

Nice Job on the BGs Jaz.

[edit]
Just saw the 4th pic, and the first thing I saw was that skull in the mountains, spiffy.