Alien:Isolation (Easter Egg with spoilers)

Mike Tanaka is a hidden 'Easter Egg' within Creative Assembly's Alien:Isolation.

A twitter feed was launched to diary his experinces in the game world months before game release.

Warning, contains spoilers!

Mike is a family man and an amateur artist, so I was tasked with creating the sketches

for his journal. Family, collegues... Xenomorphs....

Sketchbook Pro. 2013.

 

It was great getting inside the mind of Mike, particularly the Alien sketches...

how would draw if I were scared to death and mortally wounded.................?

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ALIEN:Isolation (extras)

Alien:Isolation in game assets. 2012

I don't think any of these made it to the final game.

The excellent posters that you do see in game were not designed by myself.

Anyway, the idea was to create depth and a history for the world, so

these included posters, newspaper clippings, Adult magazines - not used ;) etc

Here are a couple of my faves.

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ALIEN: Isolation (part 4)

Quick and small (originals 400 x 720) frames to illustrate key narrative moments.

Greyscale work in Sketchbook Pro, coloured in Photoshop. Two days work for all.

I used my triangle brush here, back in SBPro 5, so it was kind of chunky and bit-mapped.

Look pretty rough now.... from 2011.

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