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<blockquote data-quote="steeldragons" data-source="post: 6077574" data-attributes="member: 92511">I concur. So as long as all D&amp;D art involves alien completely non-humanoid monsters the art's gonna be AWESOME!....wait<img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/erm.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":erm:" title="Erm&nbsp; &nbsp; :erm:" data-shortname=":erm:" />And on another note brought up, maybe my visceral dislike is stemming from the observation about the &quot;video-gamey-ness&quot; of the images. That 3D CGI'ed look. The artist is undoubtedly talented, and I don't mean to be saying otherwise. It is a &quot;style&quot; I simply don't enjoy nor want to see in my D&amp;D books. In a D&amp;D video game, great!Hell, nowadays this could all be used for a D&amp;D cartoon. I'd prefer it wasn't and wouldn't really consider it an &quot;animated series&quot; when computers do all of the animating, but that/this style seems the trend in cartoons nowadays and I'm sure there's tons of factors with overhead, time to produce a complete episode, etc... that make it desirable. If I'm not being clear, think &quot;Young Justice&quot; or the Avengers &quot;Earth's Mightiest Heroes&quot; as 2d-ish/good [to steel dragons] vs. &quot;Iron Man: Armored Adventures&quot; or anything Pixar-cgi'd/bad [to steel dragons].When I'm looking through books, I want to see stuff that is [or at least looks] hand-drawn...2D...add in some shading and background, give it depth, that's all fine. I'm not looking for &quot;DSL&quot;-type stuff! But Easley, Elmore, Otus, Dee...drawings, illustrations...more black n' white (as also mentioned above) is desirable, but I'm not averse to colored images. But it shouldn't look like (hate to keep coming back to this, but it does!) computer game characters. This stuff, as mentioned, is/looks developed for some reason other than to be in print.Anyway, rambling since I'm on first coffee. Sure we'll be seeing each other here again later today.--SD</blockquote>

[QUOTE="steeldragons, post: 6077574, member: 92511"] I concur. So as long as all D&D art involves alien completely non-humanoid monsters the art's gonna be AWESOME!....wait:erm: And on another note brought up, maybe my visceral dislike is stemming from the observation about the "video-gamey-ness" of the images. That 3D CGI'ed look. The artist is undoubtedly talented, and I don't mean to be saying otherwise. It is a "style" I simply don't enjoy nor want to see in my D&D books. In a D&D video game, great! Hell, nowadays this could all be used for a D&D cartoon. I'd prefer it [I]wasn't[/I] and wouldn't really consider it an "animated series" when computers do all of the animating, but that/this style seems the trend in cartoons nowadays and I'm sure there's tons of factors with overhead, time to produce a complete episode, etc... that make it desirable. If I'm not being clear, think "Young Justice" or the Avengers "Earth's Mightiest Heroes" as 2d-ish/good [to steel dragons] vs. "Iron Man: Armored Adventures" or anything Pixar-cgi'd/bad [to steel dragons]. When I'm looking through books, I want to see stuff that is [or at least [I]looks[/I]] hand-drawn...2D...add in some shading and background, give it depth, that's all fine. I'm not looking for "DSL"-type stuff! But Easley, Elmore, Otus, Dee...drawings, illustrations...more black n' white (as also mentioned above) is desirable, but I'm not averse to colored images. But it shouldn't look like (hate to keep coming back to this, but it does!) computer game characters. This stuff, as mentioned, is/looks developed for some reason other than to be in print. Anyway, rambling since I'm on first coffee. Sure we'll be seeing each other here again later today. --SD [/QUOTE]

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