I'm very happy to announce JoeMadArt.com reached a new milestone with the cap of the 50 000 visits! (based on a 30-minute max session window)
While it's for sure ridiculous in comparison to many other sites, I consider that a success for a Fansite and it motivates me even more to go on like that! ;)
So thank you to all the visitors and of course many thanks to Joe Madureira himself for all those great pieces of art!
For this month, I added all the concept arts I was able to find about an obscure project Joe worked on while at Vigil Games: Sly Cooper Here is a little bit more of information about that project directly from Joe MAdureira:
So, back in ancient times, when Vigil was just forming, and Darksiders was but a twinkle in our eye, we created a pitch for Sony to do a Sly Cooper game for PSP.
Unfortunately, all I could find were these low res files, and there are a bunch missing which I will try to track down.
Pretty different style for me, and incredibly fun. These were all done circa 2005. And obviously, all rights and characters belong to Sony, so don't do anything crazy with these to get me in trouble.
Joe Mad!
"A bunch of random exploration done for a pitch back in 2005. FUN!":
Also, since I was a little bit late about all the stuff that Joe & Airship Syndicate revealed during the past months, I thought it was time to catch things up!
Last week Airship Syndicate did a recent and big Battle Chasers NightWar update on Kickstarter.
For that occasion the "pencil" version (Or what I rather call the "texture" version) of the second official key art of Battle Chasers NightWar was revealed!
This is something I was waiting for... Exactly 49 days in fact ;)
Obviously it was impossible for me not to add that one to the site!
And as you can see in that Battle Chasers NightWar update more new arts were also revealed!
But I decided not to rush to add those in that update plus the fact the resolution of those images is still very low so I hope some higher versions will be revealed in the days or months to come!
I added a slightly brighter version. That new version "CoverA" is an official variant!
I remember Joe told me when he was in Paris that the first version was too dark and that he wanted to get a new one.
I didn't have the confirmation but I think this is that version Joe was talking about. ;)
Enjoy, have fun and stay tuned for the next update! ;)