Roger Dean – His legendary artwork in gaming history (Psygnosis)

I never even thought about the possibility that the t-shirt inside the box might not be my size. I was probably in my late teens, just left home at the time, such considerations were life-knowledge yet to be learned.

The T-Shirt was just the right size. I suspect the standard deviation for late-80's early-90's teen geek body type was smaller than one might expect today.

I've always loved Dean. He was one of my biggest inspirations, in my own artwork[0].

I remember playing a game called ZPC, for Mac, that was illustrated by Brute![1] (A few old thrashers may remember his work).

It's not unusual for artists that are successful in one area, to try expanding to others.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40917886

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aidan_Hughes

For any stamp collectors here, the Isle of Man Post Office [1] has just issued an official set of 6 Roger Dean and Rick Wakeman stamps [2]:

[1] https://iomstamps.com/collections/wakeman [2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyqe679gqno

I always thought that the cover image for Terrorpods was stupid – it’s obvious that the image was made as an illustration of one of the final scenes of The War of the Worlds, and that someone just saw the image and made a game based on the image in order to have a cool image on the packaging; i.e. blatant shovelware tactics. (The game bears no similarity to The War of the Worlds.)

Went to visit their offices once in the early 90s, felt like I was somehow visiting the future. We still haven't got there yet.

YEARS ago some of his paintings were on display somewhere in San Francisco -- Red Dragon and Blue Desert (ABWH) and maybe Relayer. So great to see up close and in person.

A yes, Dean. I got to know his work through the Yes album covers he made, bought a book with his artwork and proceeded to copy the 'fallen planet shard sticking up through the clouds' on a large wall in my student room back in the 90's. I quite like the result, made with normal house paints, I do have a photo of it somewhere I think - back then making photos was a bit of a luxury, especially for a poor student. I wonder what the next person to occupy that room - above an old horse butcher's shop turned health-food place - did, probably painted or papered it over.

I loved this Sci Fi artwork ever since high school in the '70s.

I didn't know it from video games, but from the albums by the band Yes.

Especially Yes - Relayer. Spectacular futuristic images.

This inspired me to purchase the book, Views. This really expanded my understanding of his work. I especially loved his concepts of organic living spaces.

I had always wondered what happened to him, and I guess the answer is that he started working on video game art.

I've never seen any of that, but I wonder how well animation serves his orginal art. Especially in low resolution early games.