Death Test reprint art

[Desertmonkey]

Has it been announced whether the Death Test reprint will use the original art or is Pat Hidy going to create new art for it? Hidy’s work seemed so emblematic to me for TFT.

[Wayne]

They can’t use original art, SJ was only able to retrieve copyright on his text.
No idea who’s doing the art.

[philreed]

Originally Posted by Wayne

They can’t use original art, SJ was only able to retrieve copyright on his text.
No idea who’s doing the art.

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[JLV]

Frankly, I like that Liz is doing the counter art for DT and DT2; Pat Hidy's art work was GREAT, but it was clearly shrunk down copies of the art for the interior of DT, and it was very hard to make out clearly on the much smaller counters. I suspect that had Pat been told his art was going on the counters, he would have drawn it differently for the smaller format. Liz's counter art is always crisp and clean, though, and her technical mastery is even better nowadays. Plus, the two or three interior illustrations that we HAVE been shown look pretty darn good to me, and they are from a variety of artists.

(Edited to add: Oops, I see Phil has already weighed in on where to see who the artists are, so I'll delete that...)

[Desertmonkey]

Originally Posted by JLV

Frankly, I like that Liz is doing the counter art for DT and DT2; Pat Hidy's art work was GREAT, but it was clearly shrunk down copies of the art for the interior of DT, and it was very hard to make out clearly on the much smaller counters. I suspect that had Pat been told his art was going on the counters, he would have drawn it differently for the smaller format. Liz's counter art is always crisp and clean, though, and her technical mastery is even better nowadays. Plus, the two or three interior illustrations that we HAVE been shown look pretty darn good to me, and they are from a variety of artists.

(Edited to add: Oops, I see Phil has already weighed in on where to see who the artists are, so I'll delete that...)

That's a good point: on some/most of his counters, the fine lines disappeared.

[Jim Kane]

Hmmm, we had 2 copies of the first edition of Death Test (with the thinner lettered masthead logo and wider spaced lettering on the cover), and our Pat Hidy counters were crisp, clear, and sharp.

Do you know which edition you guys had?

JK

[Desertmonkey]

Originally Posted by philreed

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Oh awesome! I like her work a lot too, especially for Tunnels and Trolls and Doomtown.

[Rick_Smith]

Originally Posted by Desertmonkey

Has it been announced whether the Death Test reprint will use the original art or is Pat Hidy going to create new art for it? Hidy’s work seemed so emblematic to me for TFT.

Hi Desertmonkey, everyone.
The fine lines on my counter art for Death Test were a bit blurry, which made it hard to see what was going on. The more iconic art from Melee and Wizard worked better.

(I've heard others say that their version of the counters of Death Test were sharp, so it may be I simply got a counter sheet where the ink had run a bit.)

Warm regards, Rick.