For most favorite, it's a toss up between Kevin Long and Ramon Perez.
Worst... Nicholas Bradshaw. I really hate his artwork. It just feels very off and not in the style of the art I consider Palladium Books good stuff. His work in Madhaven and Vampire Kingdoms Revised just really turns me off.
I liked his artwork for both books, so this comes to the person style then anything esle
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Perez "Defines" Rifts for me. Sadly he's moved on to other projects. Mumah and Walton are both excellent artists and I love their feel of their works.
Bottom 2 Burles. His art may have it's place. I do not think that place is my RPG books. I've explained this many times in the past. I find it distasteful. Most of his art looks very very a-symetrical, and like lumps of snot, or melted wax. His art has -ruined- books for me. To the point I've actually refused to spend money on them. I'd put down Burles three times if possible. But that wouldn't say what else to avoid.
Nick Bradshaw. I state up front his art isn't 'Bad'. I just don't 'prefer' it. For what he's going for, that splatter punk/gross out/pulp-comic/gross out ((Yeah twice)) type, he hits it DEAD ON. I just don't like it. His art in Madhaven put me off the book for years. Even now I can't take the things he drew seriously. If the creature has no way to even move or function as shown, it's silly. He's done some work in other books too, I didn't like his stuff in Vamp Kingdoms revised. Most recently he did some stuff in Black Market for the Traveling freak shows. It was a teny tiny bit better there. Due to the subject matter and he didn't go too funky with it. Again, for what he's aiming for, he hits 100% so the "Art" isn't bad. I just don't like it and don't like it in my RPG books.
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I'll agree with Perez, especially the "defining Rifts" part.
Wayne Breaux was also a favorite.
Vince Martin I would've liked better if he could do more than one art style. What he did was pretty good, but it often looked like it was all for the same side.
I know I might be in the minority, but I don't like Wayne Breaux all that much. He's not the worst by far, but there's somerthing about his style that makes me go "Meh" He didnt' rank the bottom by any means but for me he's sorta lower middle ground. I know some people LOOVE his stuff. I've just never been one of them. Again I chalk that up to preference. I like green. Some people like orange. Me not liking orange doesn't make orange things SUCK. I just don't like them. I think that's me and Breaux. I don't love his stuff. But it's not 'bad' because of that.
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I have to say, when it comes to down and dirty, Horror and gross. i go with bradshaw
On the others i have to go with old school
Kevin Long for robots, Newton Ewell for some fantastic work in atlantis. Scott Johnson for some great illustrations in PFRPG And teh Late Keith Parkinson, for his phenomenal Cover art and Color paintings in the rifts series of books, as well as many other Novel covers of his day
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The guy is fantastic and I have always thought that PB should have made him thier main go to artist for all thier books. That guy is perfect for Rifts.
Kevin Long, Ramon Parez and Wayne Breaux are the standards that I got used to a very long time ago. I have been a bit disappointed with roleplaying art in general the last 10 years or so. To much of it has a cartoony or Tokyo pop kind of feel to it. Palladium still has great art, but not all of the artists swing the more realistic look in the books.
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argos wrote:My favorite artist has been Freddie E williams. The cover to black vault is awesome. His art is of an epic nature befitting rifts. I cant say i dislike any artist. Some i like more than others, beauty is in the eye of the beholder after all, but honsetly i find it amazing that artists can do what they do.
I like Freddie Williams as well (( is he 'The third? I seem to remember that))
Sadly his run with Palladium seemed short and I'm not sure if he's still working with them. I think he got a comic or something, but I could be wrong.
I DID/Do like his work though. Good stuff. He did great with super hero stuff (( Did alot with Cyber knights too)) and I think he had some stuff in DBees.
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ffranceschi wrote:Cover Artist: Keith Parkinson. The first cover of the main book is like the first time that I have fallen in love. I can't forget her!
Interior Artists: 1) Kevin Long, 2) Wayne Breaux, 3) Ramon Perez. They could be considered the Holy Triad! They have defined RIFTS. THIS IS A FACT!
The new King: Chuck Walton. He is the NEW BEST ARTIST!.
100% aggree. The Only thing I'll add is that the image of the slaver and the lemurian biomancer fighting on page 164 of the lemuria book by Chuck Walton rivals the image on the main book, not necessarily in "finish", it deffinately is a bit rougher, but it does in spirit. That picture just screams RIFTS to me, just like the slaver depicted on the cover of the main book. I think they should both pay Chuck more (if possible) and give him more cover projects. I'm not sure how his art will translate to covers but I think he's an asset that Palladium books really needs to capitalize on. I would accept a few sub par covers done by walton while he's refining his skill over some of the more recent covers they've put out (BlackMarket I'm looking at you!).
zaccheus wrote:I think they should both pay Chuck more (if possible) and give him more cover projects. I'm not sure how his art will translate to covers but I think he's an asset that Palladium books really needs to capitalize on. I would accept a few sub par covers done by walton while he's refining his skill over some of the more recent covers they've put out (BlackMarket I'm looking at you!).
Greetings and Salutations. Since you said you're not sure how his artwork would translate to covers, I feel I should point out he's already done some covers. So I direct your attention to ...
Those are the ones I know of. If I missed any, I apologize. Anyways, this isn't to say he should get more, get less, or already has enough. T his is just to help show how his medium would translate to cover art. You can look and judge for yourself. Anyways, just wanted to chime in with that information. Thank you for your time and patience, please have a nice day. Farewell and safe journeys for now.
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Ramon Perez - great art and cool guy, met him way back in the day when he used to work at my local comic shop in Oshawa. I was talking to him again a little while back when he was starting work on the new Captain America comic out of his studio in Toronto.
Kevin Long
Mike Mumah - awesome art and also seems to be a really nice guy, never met him in person but spoke to him online a bunch of times.
For me, Rifts is always Kevin Long with Wayne Breaux being the Phase World guy. Just look at my name and I think you can see how much I love his artwork.
As for new artists it is Nicholas Bradshaw and Amy Ashbaugh. Amy's work in Black Market is spectacular and I love what I saw from Bradshaw at the open house for Vampire SB and I think one of the Northern Gun books(?).
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Ramon Perez was the best! Burles is my least favorite as I love to scale my characters in mircrosoft word next to bots, monsters and vehicles with abstract bubble art their no use to me
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Keith Parkinson by a long shot (and those behind include some FANTASTIC artists, you're just not up to this Usain Bolt of artists).
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I love Chuck Walton, Wayne Breaux, Kevin Long, Kent Burles, Scott Johnson, Nick Bradshaw, Amy Ashbaugh, Allen Manning (but not Brian ) John Zeleznik, Keith Parkinson, and Mark Dudley.
Oh yeah, and that Mumah cat, too.
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If you're asking me to define the look of Rifts, I'd say Long, Breaux, and Perez. You ask for my favorites and I'll include Mumah, Walton, and Johnson.
Burles is not my favorite, but I'd hardly call him a least favorite (though probably close, just not my cup of tea). Amy Ashbaugh is not my favorite Rifts artist, but she is a top favorite for anything horror. Mumah and Walton too.
As much as I like KS though, I'm not a big fan of his artwork. Again, not my least favorite (that belongs to art in other RPGs I like, and no I'm not going to go into it0, but it's pretty far from my favorite.
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Perez (and NOT because he's a fellow Torontonian ...and double Eisner award winner ) um... and Walton for the new guard. For iconic? Kevin Long. He wasn't high-art but he WAS "THE" look for Rifts for a very long time.
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mumah wrote:I love Chuck Walton, Wayne Breaux, Kevin Long, Kent Burles, Scott Johnson, Nick Bradshaw, Amy Ashbaugh, Allen Manning (but not Brian ) John Zeleznik, Keith Parkinson, and Mark Dudley.
Oh yeah, and that Mumah cat, too.
Really? That guy is a total hack!
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mumah wrote:I love Chuck Walton, Wayne Breaux, Kevin Long, Kent Burles, Scott Johnson, Nick Bradshaw, Amy Ashbaugh, Allen Manning (but not Brian ) John Zeleznik, Keith Parkinson, and Mark Dudley.
Oh yeah, and that Mumah cat, too.
There's no love for Michael Wilson? He's one of my favorites as well.
I love all of the artists. Palladium has such a wide stable of talent to pull from that it doesn't matter what type of image they are trying to put forth, they have someone whose skill set matches perfectly. I'm also pleasantly surprised by them a lot. I saw a bradshaw piece in the Black Market book the other day that had NMI's Bar in the background and one of my favorite moments where an artist does something totally unexpected was in Triax 2 where themannings had apiece with a jaeger standing on the neck of a gurgoyle. It was pretty epic.
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) John Zeleznik, Keith Parkinson, and Mark Dudley.
) um... and Walton for the new guard.
