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DeadlySquirrel wrote:

haha sword.......lol

Ive seen that one a couple of times, lol

DeffDred wrote:Almost nothing Blanche has put to paper has been rendered in model or imagery form.

Almost everything rendered in model or imagery form, for 40K, owes it's image to Blanche's vision.

Even the skull-faced, parchment draped Chaplain you're using as your avatar.

Forgive me if somebody already posted this one, I only looked through the last four or so pages. But it was kinda the defining image of 40k for me when I was first starting out.

I don't know if this counts (as it's for DOW) but I love this piece of art:



Striding out of the smoke like that makes them look pretty epic

Eldar Vampire Hunter wrote:Forgive me if somebody already posted this one, I only looked through the last four or so pages. But it was kinda the defining image of 40k for me when I was first starting out.

You can't link straight from 4chan for a lot of us. I am glad =) but if you have it somewhere else post it!

I wonder if we could hit 10 pages for this thread!?!?

blood guard26 wrote:I wonder if we could hit 10 pages for this thread!?!?

Quite easily, I reckon, so long as there is artwork to post (and people don't lose interest).

And as long as people dont stop posting, this thread has been necromanced a couple of times.

There was a 2nd edition picture that showed an Avatar and a Bloodthirster squaring off with a river between them IIRC. I just remember it being so badass.

It led me to start an Eldar army with an Avatar (who was a beast back then) and my friend bought a Chaos army complete with a Bloodthirster (who as always, was even beastlier).

It may have been from an Epic book, I'm really not sure. Unfortunately I have never been able to find it on the internets.

Kaldor wrote:

DeffDred wrote:Almost nothing Blanche has put to paper has been rendered in model or imagery form.

Almost everything rendered in model or imagery form, for 40K, owes it's image to Blanche's vision.

Even the skull-faced, parchment draped Chaplain you're using as your avatar.

Um... no.

My avatar is a terminator. Blanche has never drawn one. Jes Goodwin on the other hand (you know the guy who created the look of... Skaven, High Elves, Dark Eldar, Space Marines, Chaos Marines, Titans, Battle Fleet Gothic, Eldar, Siste of Battle, ect) He created the terminator suit. It was originaly MKVIII power armour.

Blanche doesn't create anything for the game. He brainstorms. He comes up with a few minor ideas that the rest of the design team runs with.

40k owes it's image to the sci-fi/fantasy community as a whole. Things like Judge Dredd, Dune, Starship Troopers, ect.

You give Blanches scribbles way to much credit.

Oh man, that Catachan one was awesome

Kaldor wrote:Without Blanche as the artistic director, 40K would just be another boring sci-fi cliche.

Like this?



Naked chick with cyborg bits and gun. Nope. Not cliche at all.

DeffDred wrote:

Kaldor wrote:Without Blanche as the artistic director, 40K would just be another boring sci-fi cliche.

Like this?

Naked chick with cyborg bits and gun. Nope. Not cliche at all.

I'd love to see what you make of Giger's work then!!!

Art, just like everything, is subjective. Kaldor finds an appreciation in Blanche's work that you do not.

I like how dynamic this one is,



But sticking with Blanche this one is fantastic,

I can't help but always think that those red guys in the top right corner are Klu Klux Klan members...

They always came off like that to me...

I realy like the one with the GK and the SOB

DeffDred wrote:40k owes it's image to the sci-fi/fantasy community as a whole. Things like Judge Dredd, Dune, Starship Troopers, ect.

No, the boring generic sci-fi tropes are not where 40K draws its inspiration.

You give Blanches scribbles way to much credit.

Not at all. Where do you think the imagery for your Avatar came from? Jes Goodwin came up with some armour. Real original. Who came up with the idea of skull-faced warriors, covered in parchment and wielding a weaponised 'crozius'?

Kaldor wrote:

DeffDred wrote:40k owes it's image to the sci-fi/fantasy community as a whole. Things like Judge Dredd, Dune, Starship Troopers, ect.

No, the boring generic sci-fi tropes are not where 40K draws its inspiration.

Yeah it does. 40K draws directly from movies likes Aliens, and books like Starship troopers. Not sure about the others though, never seen them.

Makarov wrote:

Kaldor wrote:

DeffDred wrote:40k owes it's image to the sci-fi/fantasy community as a whole. Things like Judge Dredd, Dune, Starship Troopers, ect.

No, the boring generic sci-fi tropes are not where 40K draws its inspiration.

Yeah it does. 40K draws directly from movies likes Aliens, and books like Starship troopers. Not sure about the others though, never seen them.

But it's not a clone of any of them. It's visual style and over-all theme has morphed over the years into something unique. The only thing that Tyranids have in common with Aliens is that they're both aliens. The only thing Astartes have in common with Starship Troopers is that their both humans in armour.

The 'image of 40K' comes from the artistic and design team at GW, and owes much of it's fundamental imagery to John Blanche. Other artists will have taken that imagery and illustrated it, put their own spin on it, managed to slot it into the 40K universe, and Blanche isn't the only creative person on the team, but he is directly responsible for much of the imagery we associate with 40K.

Kaldor wrote:

Makarov wrote:

Kaldor wrote:

DeffDred wrote:40k owes it's image to the sci-fi/fantasy community as a whole. Things like Judge Dredd, Dune, Starship Troopers, ect.

No, the boring generic sci-fi tropes are not where 40K draws its inspiration.

Yeah it does. 40K draws directly from movies likes Aliens, and books like Starship troopers. Not sure about the others though, never seen them.

But it's not a clone of any of them. It's visual style and over-all theme has morphed over the years into something unique. The only thing that Tyranids have in common with Aliens is that they're both aliens. The only thing Astartes have in common with Starship Troopers is that their both humans in armour.

The 'image of 40K' comes from the artistic and design team at GW, and owes much of it's fundamental imagery to John Blanche. Other artists will have taken that imagery and illustrated it, put their own spin on it, managed to slot it into the 40K universe, and Blanche isn't the only creative person on the team, but he is directly responsible for much of the imagery we associate with 40K.

You are kidding yourself.

Tyranids first copied Giger's alien for a whole generation then proceeds to copy zergs for the next.
Even the Raveners and Trygon still lingers with the same scent.

The part I highlighted in large text, dont make me waste time proving you wrong. Because I can if I must.

Kaldor wrote:

Makarov wrote:

Kaldor wrote:

DeffDred wrote:40k owes it's image to the sci-fi/fantasy community as a whole. Things like Judge Dredd, Dune, Starship Troopers, ect.

No, the boring generic sci-fi tropes are not where 40K draws its inspiration.

Yeah it does. 40K draws directly from movies likes Aliens, and books like Starship troopers. Not sure about the others though, never seen them.

But it's not a clone of any of them. It's visual style and over-all theme has morphed over the years into something unique. The only thing that Tyranids have in common with Aliens is that they're both aliens. The only thing Astartes have in common with Starship Troopers is that their both humans in armour.

The 'image of 40K' comes from the artistic and design team at GW, and owes much of it's fundamental imagery to John Blanche. Other artists will have taken that imagery and illustrated it, put their own spin on it, managed to slot it into the 40K universe, and Blanche isn't the only creative person on the team, but he is directly responsible for much of the imagery we associate with 40K.

Ok now I see what you mean.

LunaHound wrote:

for a whole generation then proceeds to copy zergs for the next.

Wait......what.....are you trolling?

Haven't seen this here yet..

LunaHound wrote:
You are kidding yourself.

Tyranids first copied Giger's alien for a whole generation then proceeds to copy zergs for the next.
Even the Raveners and Trygon still lingers with the same scent.

The part I highlighted in large text, dont make me waste time proving you wrong. Because I can if I must.

Originally, yeah. But they moved away from that a long time ago. Tyranids have next to nothing in common with the xenomorph now.

Also, nids predate starcraft. Zergs copied nids, not the other way around.

Kaldor wrote:

LunaHound wrote:
You are kidding yourself.

Tyranids first copied Giger's alien for a whole generation then proceeds to copy zergs for the next.
Even the Raveners and Trygon still lingers with the same scent.

The part I highlighted in large text, dont make me waste time proving you wrong. Because I can if I must.

Originally, yeah. But they moved away from that a long time ago. Tyranids have next to nothing in common with the xenomorph now.

Also, nids predate starcraft. Zergs copied nids, not the other way around.

Correction Kaldor. Both Nids and Zergs copied SST.
However.
Nids then Copied the aesthetic serpentine designs, carapace design, torso scyth designs of Hydralisk.




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Wardragoon wrote:

LunaHound wrote:

for a whole generation then proceeds to copy zergs for the next.

Wait......what.....are you trolling?

Let me guess. You are going to tell me " of course Luna is trolling, since GW predates Starcraft!

Right?

Back on topic



LOOK AT THIS fething GUARDSMAN.
He's spent months fighting a grueling war in which his enemies are demigods allied with daemons, and now he's found himself in the closest thing to Hell he's ever known. He probably wasn't even supposed to get teleported up to the arch-traitor's battle barge in the first place, and just ended up in the wrong place at the worst possible time.
Somehow he's survived horrors beyond comprehension to make his way to the very bridge of Horus' flagship. He saw a veritable angel call upon Horus to answer for his crimes, and he saw that angel die as messily as any guardsman. His Emperor - who he fervently believes is a god incarnate, even if he's not supposed to - lies mortally wounded, and Horus, perhaps, has taken a moment to gloat before he strikes the killing blow.
His armor is slightly more effective than tissue paper, his weapon is slightly more powerful than a flashlight, and Horus' power claw is bigger than his entire body. He stands before a being infused by the dark gods with incalculable power, that can and will obliterate his soul with no more effort than it would take him to swat a gnat. Nothing he can do could possibly make a difference.
He could run. He could turn his weapon on himself. He could give in to the insidious whispers that echo from the ship's corridors into his mind.
Ollanius Pius does the duty his Emperor requires of him. He dies standing, and holding the fething line.

Makarov wrote:Back on topic



LOOK AT THIS fething GUARDSMAN.
He's spent months fighting a grueling war in which his enemies are demigods allied with daemons, and now he's found himself in the closest thing to Hell he's ever known. He probably wasn't even supposed to get teleported up to the arch-traitor's battle barge in the first place, and just ended up in the wrong place at the worst possible time.
Somehow he's survived horrors beyond comprehension to make his way to the very bridge of Horus' flagship. He saw a veritable angel call upon Horus to answer for his crimes, and he saw that angel die as messily as any guardsman. His Emperor - who he fervently believes is a god incarnate, even if he's not supposed to - lies mortally wounded, and Horus, perhaps, has taken a moment to gloat before he strikes the killing blow.
His armor is slightly more effective than tissue paper, his weapon is slightly more powerful than a flashlight, and Horus' power claw is bigger than his entire body. He stands before a being infused by the dark gods with incalculable power, that can and will obliterate his soul with no more effort than it would take him to swat a gnat. Nothing he can do could possibly make a difference.
He could run. He could turn his weapon on himself. He could give in to the insidious whispers that echo from the ship's corridors into his mind.
Ollanius Pius does the duty his Emperor requires of him. He dies standing, and holding the fething line.

....Suddenly I want to start getting more Imperial Guard, this is what the Imperial guard is about, and the horrors they see compared to what others would.

You've earned an exalt my good sir.

There was a pic in the old instruction book for the Epic Space Marine game....if I remember correctly, it was a two page pic that showed
dead marines strung up to pillars at the top of a dias...there was a short fluff piece underneath describing the Ultramarine squad
that found them and wondering how formerly loyal marines could treat dead loyalist marines so callously. I don't have the book any longer
and I've never been able to find it online.

Here are some of my favorites that I've not seen previously posted:

FW Khorne Terminator-


FW Vraks Enforcer-


Cover for the new Storm of Iron omnibus-


Terminator by Mark Gibbons-


World Eater Champion-


Thanks,
Tom

Kaldor wrote:

DeffDred wrote:40k owes it's image to the sci-fi/fantasy community as a whole. Things like Judge Dredd, Dune, Starship Troopers, ect.

No, the boring generic sci-fi tropes are not where 40K draws its inspiration.

You give Blanches scribbles way to much credit.

Not at all. Where do you think the imagery for your Avatar came from? Jes Goodwin came up with some armour. Real original. Who came up with the idea of skull-faced warriors, covered in parchment and wielding a weaponised 'crozius'?

Sigh...

Dune provided: Starships powered via a genetically specific form of human that uses their mind and mutation to travel through space.

Dune also provided: A galaxy spanning empire, planetary governors, and an in-depth multi-planetary culture (without portraying Valleo style artwork characters).

Dune also started: A form of putting "in story" history before each chapter... a writting form GW and countless others copy to this day.

Starship Troopers provided: Giant bug monsters that attack in swarms, POWER ARMOUR, and mechs.

Aliens provided: Genestealers, 3rd editon Hive Tyrant (no greater example of a rip off in all of 40k).

Starcraft provided: The current form of Tyranid.

I, Robot provided: The iron men and humanities fear of AI in the 40k universe.

J. R. R. Tolkeen crated what you think of as Elves, Dwarves and Orcs. Orcs were his brain child. Thus Tolkeen provided: Eldar, Dark Eldar, Squats and Orks.

That's just a few thing off the top of my head and I'm sure there are countless forums with countless threads on these subjects.

Oh yeah and my avatar... So you think John Blanche crated Death Masks and prayer papers?