Paul Steed, Artist on Wing Commander and Quake Series, Dies

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frag.machine
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Paul Steed, Artist on Wing Commander and Quake Series, Dies

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I know FrikaC made a cgi-bin version of the quakec interpreter once and wrote part of his website in QuakeC :) (LordHavoc)
leileilol
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Re: Paul Steed, Artist on Wing Commander and Quake Series, D

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RIP

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p.s. he didn't work on Quake. News sites are getting that misinformation from MobyGames.
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mh
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Re: Paul Steed, Artist on Wing Commander and Quake Series, D

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Sad news. A lot of the distinctive look of Q2 and Q3A was entirely down to Paul's work; he was a true original creator at a time when others were moving to homogenised photorealistic blandness.
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Re: Paul Steed, Artist on Wing Commander and Quake Series, D

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I'm sad right now, Quake 3 has some of my favorite character art ever.
RIP bro.
frag.machine
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Re: Paul Steed, Artist on Wing Commander and Quake Series, D

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leileilol wrote:RIP

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p.s. he didn't work on Quake. News sites are getting that misinformation from MobyGames.
You're right, AFAIK he worked on Q2 and Q3. He loved to make naked girls. :)
I know FrikaC made a cgi-bin version of the quakec interpreter once and wrote part of his website in QuakeC :) (LordHavoc)
leileilol
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Re: Paul Steed, Artist on Wing Commander and Quake Series, D

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frag.machine wrote:He loved to make naked girls. :)
Indeed. His last Q3 model was Hellchick , which was a very noticably horny, bouncy and topless demoness based on (and voiced by!) Hellchick.
It may sound extremely perverse written, but she's relatively tame when compared to crakhor.


I'm so tempted to do a tribute, but Blender can't import BIP files. Infact, some of OA is a tribute already (especially Angelyss, which was made to combine certain elements of Crakhor, Hellchick and Hunter into one)
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Re: Paul Steed, Artist on Wing Commander and Quake Series, D

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Amidst the sadness, this made me smile (from Carmack's twitter: https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)
half the studio was, quite literally, scared of Paul Steed...
We had the power, we had the space, we had a sense of time and place
We knew the words, we knew the score, we knew what we were fighting for
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