3D Plok from 1994?

Blog posted by Ste Pickford on Mon, 23 Feb 2015
Subject: Plok!

Here's a fascinating little curio, a photo from the back page of a Software Creations (the studio where we developed Plok on the SNES) corporate brochure, from around 1994 or 1995.

The page is describing how high tech and cutting-edge Creations were. Plok was probably the most recent release at the time, so the idea of a 3D Plok is supposed to be a hint at future developments.

There never was a 3D Plok game in development. On the screen is a render of a 3D Plok model somebody built in 3DS4 (this was the DOS version, before 3DS Max). I might have built the Plok model, but I can't remember for sure. Sat on top of the monitor is one of the long lost set of resin Plok models we had made to promote the game. Most of these were sent to press and publishers in the US when promoting and pitching the game, and most of them arrived in the states as a rubble, as they were so poorly packaged when we sent them from the UK.

The little Plok model is supposed to suggest the idea that we based the 3D model on the screen on a physical model (Doom famously made physical models of the in-game sprites / enemies), but that was nonsense.

Even better is the polystyrene head (for resting wigs on), with the grid lines crudely drawn on it in marker pen (I think either me or Mike Webb drew those wobbly lines), to pretend we were working with 3D scanning technology (we weren't). And is that some kind of multi-meter next to the keyboard?

Tags: 3d, modelling, brochure, game development

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If there ever would have been a 3D Plok game I always imagined it would look claymation-like, how the game is depicted on the game's box:

http://www.zee-3.com/pickfordbros/games/covers/us_plok.jpg

Comment by NameThatNobodyTakes, added Mon, 09 Mar 2015 18:27:00 GMT

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Comment by Guest MichaelBug, added Mon, 13 Apr 2015 12:38:48 GMT

Isn't the little Plok figurine from the end screen?

Comment by Goyangi, added Thu, 07 Oct 2021 21:55:54 GMT