I don't like the cliché half face on half face off. It's very cop out for an artist to do this, i think. I'd have liked to see something more like the Abe's Exoddus boxart where Abe is kind of in a pose, rather than it just being a simple, lifeless passport-style photo of his face. I don't like how the deepest blacks in Abe's face are actually grey - it makes the drawing look amateur-ish. The eye is kind of bad too... they should model the eyes like they are on the Abe's Exoddus boxart, with fine blood vessels visible.
I agree with everything slog bait has just said.
Nepsotic, you should offer suggestions though. Also, your restaurant analogy isn't accurate. You havent paid for anything New n Tasty yet. In a restaurant you pay for your food so you can criticise it if it's shit. You haven't paid for this box art. You havent done anything to deserve viewing it. I agree with you about the colours though. I think the original feel of rupture farms was like a dark dusty factory giving out loads of pollution. I liked the isolation of the factory, and the unimportance of it. It seemed like a quietly productive factory. This new box art uses bright glowing orange colours, making RuptureFarms feel dangerous and intense, explosive. I would rather they go with a dull dark green atmosphere for rupturefarms, because it would make it seem like a boring mediocre place to work, something more relatable to all of us, more realistic.. with the added slave labour, which overall gives the impression that it is the norm, that Mudokons accept themselves as an inferior race.
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