Plok Concept material

Colour charts

I'd worked on quite a few licensed games by this time, and on some of the better ones we would be given expensively produced style-guides from the licensors; folders filled with concept art and character designs showing acceptable poses, correct relative proportions of characters, pantone colours etc. All designed for the production of merchandise rather than video games, and not always that much use to us (pantone colours didn't translate to the SNES palette very well...), but they seemed to be the signature of a 'proper' character. We'd been shown something similar which Rare had prepared for their Battletoads characters before they'd even finished the first game, so producing a style-guide seemed to be the first step towards making a successful franchise. Looking back it all seems wildly optimistic, but I started producing colour charts dreamily expecting them to be used as the basis for dozens of future Plok titles and merchandising spin offs, hehe.

Plok

About half way through doing these we got the idea that we could use them for the game manual, which Tradewest were happy with (we usually had no involvement in game packaging at all), so excited by the thought of seeing my drawings in print I spent many evenings and weekends doing free artwork for the publisher.

Costumes

Vehicles

Baddies

I must have had a proper design sketch for the flea queen, which this silhouette would have been based on, but unfortunately its lost.

Scenes

A couple of these (the comfy chair and the towers) weren't anything to do with the SNES game, but were part of our concept art for future products.