Archive for June, 2010

So, it begins…

… officially.

Well, hi there, my name is Milenko Tunjic

As John has mentioned in his previous post, I have officially joined the Strange Loop Games and took a role of visualy directing the Vessel experience and honestly, I can not wait to start putting it all together.

I will be sharing bits and pieces of the art process as we go along with making the game.

I am also very excited to get together and work, once again, with Mr Mark Filipelli , an excellent artist and a dear colleague from the good old days.

In the first post, I will take it easy, and just share a few bits of preliminary art and hints of intended and currently proposed visual style of this unique experience. For the time being, it will be images only but in the upcoming posts I will talk more about the world, the characters and other relevant art thingies.

Kind regards to all,

Milenko

Vessel signed with publisher Zoo, artists join team

The big-huge news today – Vessel has been signed with publisher Zoo Games and will be coming to console and PC!

This deal gives us the time and resources to make this game exactly how we envision it without taking any shortcuts, and partners us with Zoo Games who shown a real commitment to Indie innovation, first with their 2Bees contest and now IndiePub.  Check out the official press release here.

We’re incredibly excited to have this support, and as first order of business we’ll be bringing two long-overdue members officially into the Strange Loop Team:

Milenko Tunjic is our new art director and will be in charge of building the visuals of the unique universe of Vessel.  Milenko brings 19 years of professional artistic experience to the table across all forms, from traditional painting to 3d modeling to animation.

Mark Filippelli is new lead artist and will be designing and building the unique visual appearance of Vessel.  Mark has an extensive background at several large studios including EA, Brisbane.

With the combined talent of these two on board we will be seeing some incredible improvements on the visual side – the first steps are already done in fact, and Milenko will be making a blog post debuting them in the next few days, so stay tuned for that!