I'd just been watching that and was really impressed with it. But then I read this which made me even more impressed:
After watching the above video and reading this I'm thinking that I'd like them to invite some classic game makers to have a go at remaking levels in LBP inspired by their own games.
Media Molecule is working with graphic artists to create new Level Packs for LittleBigPlanet. The first confirmed artist is Jon Burgerman, who also created the Burgertown track for Wipeout Pure?s Omega track pack, with more names to be confirmed down the line.
In an interview that we?ll be publishing here in full later on today, Media Molecule?s art director, Kareem Ettouney, told us that, among many others, he has also approached French artist Claire Wendling and Hellboy creator Mike Mignola. They will be producing stickers with which players can adorn their levels.
The pack will work well with a forthcoming downloadable update to the game that will include a new tool that automatically cuts material to the shape of a sticker, allowing players to more easily create in-game objects using stickers.
?Jon Burgerman?s a good friend of Rex [Crowle, the graphic artist behind much of LBP?s original stickers and its box art],? says Ettouney. ?He asked Jon if he could do some illustrations that we could have in the game and he just did a heap of them. They are so empowering those bits because you just stick them on the materials, cut it out, and you?ve got like a handmade character Jon Burgerman piece.?
Other forthcoming DLC will include a sticker pack based on Judge Dredd comic 2000AD, a History Pack, which will contain a library of visual material that alludes to Greek, Indian, Japanese, Celtic and American Indian architectural styles and characters including Genghis Khan, Beethoven and Mozart, and a Monster Pack, which will contain a library of zombies, bats and other ?meanies? that players can use to create horror-themed levels.
Ettouney will be speaking, along with co-co-founder of Media Molecule Mark Healey, about the art of LittleBigPlanet at this year?s Develop Conference, which will take place in Brighton from 14-16 July. Visit www.developconference.com to find out more.
In an interview that we?ll be publishing here in full later on today, Media Molecule?s art director, Kareem Ettouney, told us that, among many others, he has also approached French artist Claire Wendling and Hellboy creator Mike Mignola. They will be producing stickers with which players can adorn their levels.
The pack will work well with a forthcoming downloadable update to the game that will include a new tool that automatically cuts material to the shape of a sticker, allowing players to more easily create in-game objects using stickers.
?Jon Burgerman?s a good friend of Rex [Crowle, the graphic artist behind much of LBP?s original stickers and its box art],? says Ettouney. ?He asked Jon if he could do some illustrations that we could have in the game and he just did a heap of them. They are so empowering those bits because you just stick them on the materials, cut it out, and you?ve got like a handmade character Jon Burgerman piece.?
Other forthcoming DLC will include a sticker pack based on Judge Dredd comic 2000AD, a History Pack, which will contain a library of visual material that alludes to Greek, Indian, Japanese, Celtic and American Indian architectural styles and characters including Genghis Khan, Beethoven and Mozart, and a Monster Pack, which will contain a library of zombies, bats and other ?meanies? that players can use to create horror-themed levels.
Ettouney will be speaking, along with co-co-founder of Media Molecule Mark Healey, about the art of LittleBigPlanet at this year?s Develop Conference, which will take place in Brighton from 14-16 July. Visit www.developconference.com to find out more.
Damn you!
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