#greg winters

[sandmandaddy69]

Greg Winters

[retroscifiart]

Art by Greg Winters for Asteroids 7800 (Atari)

[atariforce]

Atari 7800 Asteroids concept art by Greg Winters

[arcadefan]

Saw this preliminary pencil sketch by Greg Winters today for Conan on the NES. The final box art stayed fairly close to the sketch, but they swapped the decapitated head for a boring shield. Guess they didn't care for the skull belt buckle either. Soft Nintendo! Actually, I prefer his face on the sketch as well.

[alphamecha-mkii]

Star Wars: Planet of the Hoojibs - Interior Illustration by Greg Winters

[rockmiyabideusexmachina]

Megaman Production Art Scan of the Day #383:

Mega Man: The Wily Wars Unreleased US Box Art Advertising Film Cel

For the second film scan showcase, today I bring the unreleased box art for Mega Man: The Wily Wars. 

Now technically, since the Kodak label reads correctly up top, I like to think the first full film scan is the better looking orientation for this piece. Maybe it’s just an American thing with how our eyes are trained, that it flows better visually left to right. Also it gives you the Robot Masters in the proper order 1-2-3, with Guts, Air and Snake representing their game title in that direction. Of course, that’s not how it showed up on the unreleased Genesis cover. So, for the fun of it, you get both versions, flipped horizontally, in the album.

Although with the reverse orientation, Wily almost looks just so much happier and friendlier. This is a strange piece overall, because Mega Man is so angry that he almost looks like the villain, and Wily comes off as the good guy. 

Grrrrr:

Not sure if Wily is a better head-double here for the Raisin Bran 2 scoops of raisins sun...

 or the Teletubbies sun baby....

Both fit well. XD But I digress.

Anyhow, let’s look at some high quality detail! Did you know Guts Man has fingernails? Now you can see them, zoomed way in!

And not only that, it looks like we can see his eyeball orientation got changed as Greg Winters painted this. You can clearly see the pencil lines to the left of his painted eye at this level of detail:

As I alluded to yesterday, this is the piece that had a strand of hair permanently captured onto it during the film-making process, which went across Air Man. I did my best to eliminate that in my HQ touchup. 

And as a final sidenote, I always find it amusing when something Protodude posted about a long time ago eventually falls into my hands, years later. Or in this case, a full decade. Who in 2011 would have ever thought we’d see this art like this?!

Full Resolution Scan Album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/YpTDgUofJzeBs27TA

(be warned, images close to 200 MB!)

[EDIT: Google Drive link if Album download does not work]

[70sscifiart]

Art by Greg Winters for “Star Wars: Planet of the Hoojibs,” 1983

[aardwolfpack]

Promotional artwork by Greg Winters for Operation: Aliens.

Operation: Aliens, an animated television series based on the 1986 film Aliens, would have premiered on Fox Kids in 1992 had the project not been cancelled.  An associated line of action figures by Kenner Products and a limited series of mini-comics by Dark Horse Comics did go into production, but they were ultimately marketed as direct tie-ins with the Aliens film.