Whereas Amazon’s large Lord of the Rings present most likely wasn’t the success anybody concerned in bankrolling or selling it might need been hoping for, there was nonetheless some good things there, and one of many large issues that I needed to deal with for this publish was the work that went into designing its world.
Whereas we’ve seen Center Earth a bunch of instances on the display, from 70s cartoons to Peter Jackson’s six movies, there have been a bunch of locations on this prequel sequence that we’d solely ever heard of. From the island kingdom of Numenor to the Southlands to the Harfoot’s travelling village, the crew of artists—headed by Rick Heinrichs and Ramsey Avery—engaged on Rings of Energy had been tasked with taking a world we thought we knew and exhibiting us, effectively, you haven’t seen all of it, or not less than not when it was this outdated.
On this slideshow you’ll discover a choice of works from a few of the artists accountable for this, primarily those working in 2D on stuff like ideas and surroundings design. There are hyperlinks to every artist’s portfolios of their names, displayed on the prime of every slide.
