Do you by any chance have any concept art of jack sturges? I’ve only ever seen three or four floating around (from the artbook as well as characterdesignreferences.com)
at least I THINK that’s him, unnamed, in these two by francisco ruiz velasco!
But regardless most mentions of jack during the early early development are very obscure, so just checking if you got any!
(Also thank you for your general archival work, you’ve got a lot of stuff here that’s really helpful to study!)
Yeah there's only a literal handful of the film era that's even been public plus the very understandable "Which one is this" issue. So let's go with the whole lot that has A Jim and hope for the best.
So we got this one by John Bell marked as Sturge's House Version 8.
Then this one is marked Jim's bedroom version 2.
Alfonso Blaas gives us this one painted over Headless Studios artwork which also has a blatant Eli shaped spanner in the works:
Then if we nip over to Sergio Casas yeah no doubt in this case that's Jack on the right. This one and the Headless Studios character sheets have become distinctive in the "Yeah that's film era" because of the kids outfits.
He hasn't in a while but for a good while Francisco Ruiz Velasco for some reason kept posting visual development on linkedin? Have to forgive me not digging out the source links as Linkedin is HORRENDOUS to search but if you check his artist tag below those will have them along with whatever he said.
One of those he posted was this which was completely unexpected.
And of course these two you posted which includes Bular during his Gunmar era... Yanno for more intrigue.
It's not impossible there's more blowing about out there that we're simply unaware of or Fruiz goes on another upload binge. That the net is now more age restricted for the audacity of living in the UK does make things increasingly difficult to check. We keep trying tho.
And thank you! Health issues be damned, this Archive helped me during a really bad depressive slump. Can't beat cool things to look at :)