Remembering Brian Smith

Two days ago, we reported the sad news that Origin and Wing Commander artist Brian Smith had passed away (story). At the time, I wrote that I wanted to know who Brian Smith was. Thanks to his friends, we have: Billy Cain, Carol Roberts and Todd Yarbrough have all written in to help us remember their friend. They have my most sincere thanks. I'm also proud of the community - fans have written notes, drawn pictures and rendered space fighters in Brian's memory. It seems appropriate to me; you're a good group. You can find all of that at our memorial page. We'll continue to update it - if you'd like to contribute, please contact us.

(For those interested in more detail as to what Brian did on the Wing Commander games, his friends passed along a copy of his resume. He did character and VDU animation on Privateer and Righteous Fire and concept sketches for Wing Commander III.)

The Art of Wing Commander Arena - Part Fourteen

We lied - there's one more Arrow! This is the first of three test 'clay' renderings, showing the basic 3D shape of ships designed for Wing Commander Arena. Note how much closer this Arrow seems to be to the original Wing Commander Armada style than the ships which appeared in the finished game.