Sol Negro

[blood]

Hi,

This is my first message here, hope i can speak english :p

So, my nick is blood, i'm working on a website about retro gaming and i like some spanish games, especially olders 'cause covers. I know, that's not a famous argument but i've really discover illustrators like Royo & Azpiri with your old compagnies (Especially Dinamic, Topo & Opera, that's not original too).

Today, i'm purchase illustrations from drawers to have videogame covers pictures but in high resolution and without ads. That's hard and i must to know the name of the illustrater of a game to purchase them pics.

And that's why i'm here now, i'm looking for the name of the illustrater of the Topo's game Sol Negro. Topo seems to don't write credits in the manual, so i can't find who have draw the cover and there not informations about that on your SN page

Hopeful you can help me,

Thanks

[Juno]

Welcome Blood! Enjoy your stay here.

That was a quite hard question, you had me browsing the web to answer it!
First and foremost, Sol Negro was an Opera Soft game! Anyway, its cover author is Juan Giménez. His current website (spanish only) is http://www.juangimenez.com/

Cheers!

[josepzin]

Juan Gimenez... the master!!!

Imperdible el reportaje!!!: http://www.juangimenez.com/miscelaneas/index.html --> Reportaje

[blood]

Thank you for your answers

Sorry for the mistake about Opera :p

Juan Giménez... I've find since many months to find the answer myself, thank you so much Juno, now, i've find informations and pictures about Sol Negro, i'm so exciting

I've another question, about Alfonso Azpiri this time. Why he have left Dinamic to work for Opera & Topo ? I've a theory, please tell me what you think. Maybe the fact of Phantis have be don't release in the international market but have rennomed in Game Over II with a new cover signed Louis Royo have be sad Azpiri and that's why he have left Dinamic ?

Phantis's girl cover is Lorna too ?

I'm currently download all covers for micros & consoles to identify the name of of illustraters of my favorite's covers and i've find a spanish style in results. An heroic fantasy/SF style with babes, gothic, postnuke and dark colors, very special but i like it, i've buy in my town a Louis Royo artbook, Visions with a vampire girl in cover, do you know ?

Cheers

[Juno]

You are welcome.

As far as I know Azpiri was not on Dinamic's payroll (like Royo, he was a freelance) it's just that he liked to create videogame covers on demand.
But I might be wrong, so I better let any other forum member to make this subject clear. ^_^'

[AugustoRuiz]

Phantis's girl cover is Lorna too ?

Nope, she sure has those big... eyes... But Lorna was a comic character before the videogame was created, and the girl from Phantis wasn't.

[Karnevi]

As far as I know Azpiri was not on Dinamic's payroll (like Royo, he was a freelance) it's just that he liked to create videogame covers on demand.
But I might be wrong, so I better let any other forum member to make this subject clear. ^_^'

Luis Royo was always a freelance, but not Azpiri. He began his relation with the videogames being a member of Dinamic, but he had problems with the Ruiz brothers and he stopped working with them. After that, he did a lot of covers for Opera and Topo (even he did one for a Delta game, "Sideral War"), but only like a freelance.

[Neville]

If you are into the art of Luis Royo and Azpiri, they published compilatios of their art. They can easily be found on comic book stores, at least in Spain. Some of the volumes include their game covers too.

[blood]

Thanks again for your answers, that's can be useful for my project.

If you are into the art of Luis Royo and Azpiri, they published compilatios of their art. They can easily be found on comic book stores, at least in Spain. Some of the volumes include their game covers too.

What's the name of these books ?

I think to make a review about illustrators per country. I think write about Azpiri, Royo & Gimenez for the Spain. I'm work on videogame site so i think write in first about them work in videogame industry. Put the list of work, link to official website, some pictures from artbook and write a little biography for each personn because, videogame illustrator is a hide job i think. Hard to be credited and hard have a link with the public. I've make many searchs to find games about these illustrators, this is the results for the moment :

Azpiri

abu simbel profanation
army moves
black beard
camelot warriors
chicago 30's
cobra's arc
coliseum
colmena
corsarios
desperado
desperado 2
dustin
gonzzalezz
ice breaker
lorna
luigi en circusland
mad mix game
megacorp
meganova
metropolis
mithos
mot
Mundo Perdido, El
nonamed
phantis
phantomas
phantomas 2
poogaboo: la pulga 2
r.a.m
sgrizam
silent shadow
sirwood
stardust
temptations
titanic
tuareg
ulises
vega solaris
viaje al centro de la tierra
wells & fargo
west bank

Royo

adventura espacial
after the war
Astonia 3
b.a.t. 2
cozumel
game over
game over 2
Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K. 2
los templos sagrados
narco police
navy moves
satan
Starsiege: Tribes
turbo girl

Gimenez

defcom1
Mutan Zone
sol negro
Toi Acid Game


Please, if there's mistake or lost games, please tell me

[Neville]

If you are into the art of Luis Royo and Azpiri, they published compilatios of their art. They can easily be found on comic book stores, at least in Spain. Some of the volumes include their game covers too.

What's the name of these books ?

There are too many to list them here. You can get a list and browse the covers at the Norma Editorial website. Just enter the name of the author on the search bar and check the results.

[blood]

Thanks for the link

[blood]

Hi,

I've maked a file about illustrators :

http://www.aitpast.com/index.php?page=dossier&id=6

Thank you for your help and for the details on your site about illustrators

[Karnevi]

Hi,

I've maked a file about illustrators :

http://www.aitpast.com/index.php?page=dossier&id=6

Thank you for your help and for the details on your site about illustrators

Hi,
Now you can find all the games with illustrations of these artists in our database:
Alfonso Azpiri
Luis Royo
Juan Giménez