How does to the creating process work?
Pretty sure you guy sit down and brainstorm about it, but what about the rest after that?
- Do you make commission artworks first, do you commission stats first, do you commission both?
- Once either is done, is it then you start organizing the book's fomat to follow your homemade guidelines?
The reason I'm asking is actually quite simple: for many monster groups, such as angels, demons and devils, you often either write down a small block of text often explaining major figures of the species or drop hints on other species that end up not being published in the Bestiary they are introduced in.
Are these "missing" species or figures ready to be added in later books with stats and artworks, were they just dropped when the format was finalized?
Creative Director
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Generally, we come up with a list of monsters inspired by folklore, literature, gaming, and just things that are brand new, make a list, write an outline that describes each monster in brief, and then split them up and assign them to different freelancers. The art order for the monsters happens after each one is written.
For monster groups, we often seed undetailed monsters for future books; these monsters aren't yet designed or developed and may never apppear in the future, but generally we do go back to them and expand the ones we seed.
Generally, we come up with a list of monsters inspired by folklore, literature, gaming, and just things that are brand new, make a list, write an outline that describes each monster in brief, and then split them up and assign them to different freelancers. The art order for the monsters happens after each one is written.
For monster groups, we often seed undetailed monsters for future books; these monsters aren't yet designed or developed and may never apppear in the future, but generally we do go back to them and expand the ones we seed.
Oh, so THIS is how it works. Interesting, thanks a lot Mr. Jacobs ^_^