Found some discworld pencil drawings
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Here's an interesting one. I was recently going through some old loft boxes at my parents and came across 3 framed drawings. My dad was a big discworld fan but he died in 1998. I wouldn't have a clue which book they are from. Just off the top of my head though I think they are from the following.
Rincewind riding Binky, im guessing Colour of Magic.
Death in a Cork Hat, Mort?
Other one No Idea. maybe Mort again.
The lower left hand corner of each has an embossed mark Perfect 10. And a limited run of 500 and the other two is from a limited run of 2,500 written in
They don't look like the usual art done by either Melvyn Grant or Paul Kidby? Maybe from a Discworld game with the Perfect 10 embossing?
Over to You PH are they worth nothing and should I just keep them? or do I need to add something like this to my Home insurance.....(really Unlikely I know.)
Rincewind riding Binky, im guessing Colour of Magic.
Death in a Cork Hat, Mort?
Other one No Idea. maybe Mort again.
The lower left hand corner of each has an embossed mark Perfect 10. And a limited run of 500 and the other two is from a limited run of 2,500 written in
They don't look like the usual art done by either Melvyn Grant or Paul Kidby? Maybe from a Discworld game with the Perfect 10 embossing?
Over to You PH are they worth nothing and should I just keep them? or do I need to add something like this to my Home insurance.....(really Unlikely I know.)
I love doing research on the web so this is what I've found out for you.
As you surmised the pictures relate to the company Perfect 10 who were a computer games company at the end of the 90's (don't search on the web for them now, perfect 10 is now an 'adult' site). One of the games they made was called Discworld II: Mortality Bites
http://www.mobygames.com/game/discworld-ii-mortali...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld_II:_Missing...
The first two pictures you have relate to the game not to any of the books. I'm not sure about the third (I assume that is the 1 of 500 one?).
On this webpage: http://www.lspace.org/games/discworld/dw2shots.htm... there are screen shots from the game. The two we are most interested in are
and
strip away the background and the first one of Death is almost the same as your second image, the other one shows Rincewind riding Binky in his new role of 'Death' and the nose of the horse and the scythe detail is very similar.
So what are your pictures? Well it's an outside chance and I don't want to get your hopes up but it's possible that they're animation cells. This wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_animation explains about how the original animation process works, and if you scroll down there's a section on computer animation that seems to say that the early computer animations were drawn as an outline then scanned in and coloured on a computer. This 'may be' what your pictures are. They are either copies or the original drawings for the animation.
There is a 'trivia' caption at the bottom of the moby games page that says "Discworld II: Mortality Bytes! features more than 25000 frames of hand-rendered animation cells". Seems a bit of a coincidence that your pictures are of 2500 and 25000 frames were made, so that numbering 'could' be the number of the frame in the sequence rather than a "1 of 2500" copies all the same as it would be if they were prints.
Now here's something you can do, the two main designers and producers of the game were named Chris Bateman and Gregg Barnett, Chris seems to have a current blog at http://blog.ihobo.com/ and Gregg is on linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/pub/gregg-barnett/2/151/1... so your task is to contact them and see if they can shed any more light on what you have.
As for prices, well hard to tell until you find out what they are. A print with that number of editions not much, ten quid if you're lucky, but as far as I can see there's none for sale anywhere which is another reason why I think you have animation cells, although cells can be anywhere from that tenner for modern anime stuff up to £18K for early 1940's Disney (all ebay prices).
As you surmised the pictures relate to the company Perfect 10 who were a computer games company at the end of the 90's (don't search on the web for them now, perfect 10 is now an 'adult' site). One of the games they made was called Discworld II: Mortality Bites
http://www.mobygames.com/game/discworld-ii-mortali...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld_II:_Missing...
The first two pictures you have relate to the game not to any of the books. I'm not sure about the third (I assume that is the 1 of 500 one?).
On this webpage: http://www.lspace.org/games/discworld/dw2shots.htm... there are screen shots from the game. The two we are most interested in are
and strip away the background and the first one of Death is almost the same as your second image, the other one shows Rincewind riding Binky in his new role of 'Death' and the nose of the horse and the scythe detail is very similar.
So what are your pictures? Well it's an outside chance and I don't want to get your hopes up but it's possible that they're animation cells. This wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_animation explains about how the original animation process works, and if you scroll down there's a section on computer animation that seems to say that the early computer animations were drawn as an outline then scanned in and coloured on a computer. This 'may be' what your pictures are. They are either copies or the original drawings for the animation.
There is a 'trivia' caption at the bottom of the moby games page that says "Discworld II: Mortality Bytes! features more than 25000 frames of hand-rendered animation cells". Seems a bit of a coincidence that your pictures are of 2500 and 25000 frames were made, so that numbering 'could' be the number of the frame in the sequence rather than a "1 of 2500" copies all the same as it would be if they were prints.
Now here's something you can do, the two main designers and producers of the game were named Chris Bateman and Gregg Barnett, Chris seems to have a current blog at http://blog.ihobo.com/ and Gregg is on linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/pub/gregg-barnett/2/151/1... so your task is to contact them and see if they can shed any more light on what you have.
As for prices, well hard to tell until you find out what they are. A print with that number of editions not much, ten quid if you're lucky, but as far as I can see there's none for sale anywhere which is another reason why I think you have animation cells, although cells can be anywhere from that tenner for modern anime stuff up to £18K for early 1940's Disney (all ebay prices).
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