Making the Games: The Shadow Force - Confederation (October 25, 2008)

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Long Live the Confederation!
This is the twelfth set of Feng Zhu concept artwork pieces. Unlike the previous sets, the origin of these is clear: they are the characters developed for Wing Commander: Shadow Force, an aborted follow-up to Secret Ops. The first half of the cast are Confederation officers -- note the dynamic new uniforms, which give the old converted garbage-man outfits a run for their money.

Thanks to Captain Johnny for both archiving and providing this material!





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Original update published on October 25, 2008
 
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I already had forgotten (again) about Shadow Force. There are so many cancelled WC games, it's such a shame.

Actually, these designs don't click with me, at least not immediately. Can't tell why...
 
By his own admission, Feng wasn't doing humans that well at the time - it's pretty apparent in these drawings. Of course if you check out his website and his recent stuff you can see he's spent a lot of effort getting better at that, and kicks butt now - but he wasn't really comfortable with the character designs, at least not as much as the ship concept stuff.
 
I checked his gallery and yes, his newer works look better to me. His Star Wars recruitement posters are funny, though they all follow the same theme.
 
Taser8 said:
By his own admission, Feng wasn't doing humans that well at the time - it's pretty apparent in these drawings.
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I can see that, and yet, they're still pretty nice all the same.

I just think Marion is an odd name for a fellow, 'tis all. :)
 
Either that or he was unreasonably prescient, and didn't want to be associated with the then-future mayor of Washington DC, Marion Barry... :D
 
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