Mark Plemmons
Explorer
I haven't seen this discussed yet, so I thought I'd mention it for those who might find it useful or interesting.
I've noticed that several pieces of 4E art tend to show characters on a flat plane - the best way to design minis that are easily castable (as I quickly learned from our company's foray into the old HackMaster miniature line). A great example of this is the dwarf on the new Races & Classes clerics PDF preview. It's really obvious that this is a sketch for designing a mini, since it shows front and back views, but I've seen other recent art that's just front view.
(However, I don't keep up with the D&D minis, so I'm not sure what all the 3.5 minis look like. Which means that some of this art may have been dredged from the WotC files and re-used for 4E, and I don't know it.)
I've noticed that several pieces of 4E art tend to show characters on a flat plane - the best way to design minis that are easily castable (as I quickly learned from our company's foray into the old HackMaster miniature line). A great example of this is the dwarf on the new Races & Classes clerics PDF preview. It's really obvious that this is a sketch for designing a mini, since it shows front and back views, but I've seen other recent art that's just front view.
(However, I don't keep up with the D&D minis, so I'm not sure what all the 3.5 minis look like. Which means that some of this art may have been dredged from the WotC files and re-used for 4E, and I don't know it.)