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Champions of Chaos, sculpted by Jes Goodwin (White Dwarf 107, November 1988)
#Warhammer#oldhammer#Jes Goodwin#Warhammer Fantasy#Rogue Trader#40K#Chaos#White Dwarf#WHFB#Realm of Chaos Slaves to Darkness#Games Workshop#GW#miniatures#fantasy miniatures
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Warmaster Heavy Battle Titan by Jes Goodwin
#Warhammer#40k#Imperium#Imperium of Man#Titan#Warmaster Class#Heavy Battle Titan#Concept Art#Sci-Fi#Mecha#Jes Goodwin#Oldhammer#Games Workshop
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Eldar
by Jes Goodwin
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UK4: When a Star Falls (1984) is a great example of that often ambiguous UK style. Here it manifests in a strong graphic design, particularly in the maps, but also in the titles and the page header (which feature quotes and visual coding using cropped illustrations for different sections).
It is also very British in other ways. It’s pretty plot heavy and features lots of Fiend Folio monsters (so many Derro!). It also, as the title implies, has an astronomical impetus, which isn’t uniquely British, but does seem to be a recurring theme in the Old World, with Morrsleib the Chaos Moon raining warpstones down on the countryside.
Oh, and this adventure has the single most unique hook put to paper, I think. The party encounters (and hopefully kills) a memory web, which in its death throes then imprints the memories of its last meal on the characters, via a list of fragmentary details, a collage-like illustration and some important geographic data. This is a real maestro game design moment, handing everything the players need to proceed in a singularly weird way. No one who plays it will ever forget it!
The adventure is basically a series of fetch quests. Get the fallen star (from the derros), bring it to the sages (who are dealing with a coup, the instigator of which has sent a memorable agent out to get the star for himself), who then want to send it to to the svirfneblin (did I spell that right?) in exchange for a book. Both subterranean regions feel a lot like the underdark. The various faction motivations feel rich. The whole thing doesn’t really have a climax (aside of a weird battle with red dragons), but that doesn’t matter, it still manages to feel complete. This is the best UK-module so far.
In no small part because of the art by Jeremy “Jes” Goodwin, who would come to define much Games Workshop’s Warhammer universe in the coming years.
#RPG#TTRPG#Tabletop RPG#roleplaying game#D&D#Dungeons & Dragons#UK Series#When A Star Falls#Jes Goodwin
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How it started, versus how it's going...
I grew up in the UK, 30 minutes from Games Workshop's Nottingham headquarters; and my childhood heavily featured their games, miniatures, and routine trips to the local Games Workshop store.
During this time, I developed a particular affection for the work of Jes Goodwin. Initially an artist and sculptor, Jes' work was strongly geometric in nature; and displayed an unusually high degree of consistency (a particularly noteworthy achievement during a period where miniatures were sculpted by hand with ad-hoc tools).
For reference - one of Jes' early sketches of a Space Marine in Mk. VI armor; as featured in the guide that accompanied the very first Space Marine paint set:
I actually had the pleasure of meeting Jes in person at Games Day '94; and one of my treasured possessions is the souvenir program, which he kindly autographed:
During my teenage years, I came to possess a handful of Chaos Champions sculpted by Jes. As was so often the case in those early years, the miniatures had been designed as dual use; combining the sort of medieval aesthetics that would warrant inclusion in the Warhammer Fantasy Battle setting, but also the occasional technological greeble that would justify use in Warhammer: 40,000.
As I generally kept to the latter system, I set about cutting up and remodeling these miniatures, with the aim of making the science-fiction elements more explicit. And I was very happy with the end results, too!... Which makes it all the more unfortunate that these miniatures were lost when I relocated to the US.
Two decades later, and I have taken it upon myself to recreate these miniatures (albeit with the full advantage of the skills I have developed in the interim). The first mini on the chopping block is 021919 from the 1989 Citadel Catalog (frequently referred to by its most obvious physical characteristic, "Nurgle Chaos Champion With Fly Mutation"):
(It feels vaguely sacrilegious, taking a razor saw to what is now technically an antique; but I very much subscribe to the DIY mentality that was so prevalent during the initial Rogue Trader days, and - given that the model originates for the same time period - keeping the old traditions alive seems only appropriate.)
In my original conversion, I removed the haft and blade of the axe; and positioned an old Space Ork plasma cannon over the now unobscured shoulder. I also replaced the sandaled foot and exposed fly-mutated leg with their armored equivalents from a Space Marine Devastator.
This time I around, I opted to angle the right arm, to add a greater sense of movement; and completely reposition the left arm, as if to calling out a target:
(In doing so, I created a great many headaches for myself: the right hand snapped off at the wrist, and had to be repaired. Cutting the left arm free necessitated cutting through the hand; and the pins I inserted into the remains of the palm broke free, requiring JB Weld to resecure.
I cannot underscore the frustration inherent to these two experiences; at the same time, I'm a great believer in the idea that growth as an artist demands taking risks - up to and including potentially ruining one's art.)
The original version of the conversion also featured an extended barrel (fabricated from the Lord Fuegan's firepike, and a handful of random Genestealer claws). However, I wanted to replace this with something a little more appropriate for a follower of the Lord Of Pestilence; which ended up being the better part of a Plague Spewer:
In terms of next steps: I intend to strap a canister of goo-based ammunition to his left side; and continue to add new detailing to hide the various cuts and joins.
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#Warhammer#40k#kill team#warhammer 40000#rogue trader#heresy armour#jes goodwin#mk v power armour#rtb01
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On helmetless ynnari aspect warriors
now we have this warham community article PERPETUATING the myth that aspect warriors never go without a helmet!
gav thorpe's aspect books clearly reference situations in which aspect warriors, STILL in warmask mode, were NOT wearing their helmets!!!! theyll just have a rune thumbed in blood on their foreheads (likely a reference to that jes goodwin sketch).
this is such a major point that former warriors reflect on FEELING THE ABSENSE OF THESE MARKS, rather than the absence of their helmets or weapons! to these former warriors, their 'warmask' WAS a helmetless warrior-version of themselves, daubed with a bloody rune!
can ynnari aspect warriors not be an extension of this??? sorry its just that im right and the youtubers are wrong, forever.
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On Marazhai's brand
I'm new-ish to 40k (my family was into it, so it was the background radiation for my entire life) so imagine my surprise when I learned that it's been around for this long and there is no functional eldar alphabet because the direction of the worldbuilding just hasn't gone in much on linguistics.
A couple of admirable supernerds have compiled various resources on what we DO have. This for grammar, terminology, and just how context heavy the language is:
This for runes. Some people who got a specific Nocturne of Oblivion ending slide might see something familiar:
Something interesting in the comments:
"I emailed Gav Thorpe 10 years about the eldar runes, and he forwarded my email to Jes Goodwin - here's the reply I got from him:
There are three systems of Runic Markings
The Runes used for the aspects and other troop types/concepts. These are the geometric runes that are generally based around the triangle. They are simplified versions of the actual runes that a Warlock/farseer uses to divine the potential futures in a given situation. The are based on the use of the Norse Futhark for divination, although their forms are not nordic.
Eldar script. This is the stuff behind the eldar headers. These have no ascribed meanings, I.e there is no 'alphabet' of them. These are generally cursive and we use them in various places to give flavour, they sometimes include elements from the runes [Which would give them a kanji-like relationship to the runes] and are sometimes more blocky/simplified as on the warning markings on vehicles.
Eldar Seals. These are the complex symbols found on Titan Banners and on the back of the Wraithlord. They are used to represent the seals of Noble Houses or the Bonesinger schools of design. They are based on the idea of the Turkish 'Tugrah' , complex signature seals associated with the Ottoman Empire, meant to stop forgeries.
To summarise, the forms of all the symbols don't have a single real world source, but their functions are influenced by real world sources"
I was just curious and wanted to know if we could build Marazhai's name out of what we do have from these sources. A lot of words beginning in "Mar-" seem to refer to death or death related ideas, and "Zai" is a known name meaning "morning". But there's nothing that I found in a written form for those sounds.
They do have a rune for Ynnead, their god of the dead, which looks like this:
Eldar runes can stand for an idea and not just one letter per sound. If this is their rune for a god of death, I'm making the wild assumption that somewhere in that rune is something that could be read as "Mar-". Since we have no idea how to properly "read" that rune, I just tried looking at their lettering runes for shapes in common with this, ssssort of like how kanji multiradicals work since that was the given example.
(Sort of. Kind of. If you squint at it and look at it sideways, maybe.)
It's a doomed prospect, because once you go looking at the runes, it becomes increasingly clear none of this follows any logic, or maybe it's just logic my simple mon-keigh brain lacks.
So, possibilities for "Mar-":
(Not quite, but close. Chalk up the difference to calligraphy styles, maybe)
(again, only close, but radicals in kanji can look subtly different depending on where in a given character they appear, so I just shrugged and said fine, elf logic.)
(Also only close, also operating off of elf logic.)
As for "Zai", the sun does appear as a pretty recognizable shape in some runes, like these:
(Craftworld Lugganath)
Without a linguistics person at GW telling us how to read this stuff, I say we have pretty free rein to figure out what the heck Marazhai burns into our necks. Like, we don't even know if it's read left to right, up or down. So I just made something up as an example, using what I posted above:
Trying for a balance of "relatively easy to burn into a person before they pass out from shock" and "cute", though it is missing the jaggy quality of Drukhari lettering. This is just an idea though, y'all go wild and have fun!
If you are a 40k lorehound and you think I'm W R O N G that's fine, I only got into this hobby a couple months ago. I'm curious if you know more about eldar writing, actually!
Edit: lmao how did I miss the literal “zhai” entry. I’ll try that later.
Edit 2: I tried it later. https://www.tumblr.com/fulgrimsrefuse/741450381287096320/on-marazhais-brand-2?source=share
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How does it feel to have such a big brain and amazing 40k takes?
Agonizing, i need to get in a room with Jes Goodwin and the Mechanicus design team or i will die an early death, crushed under the weight of my genius.
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"Hurled like a blazing spear from the night sky the shooting-star would shape the fates of many -- so it was written." Jeremy "Jes" Goodwin provided the cover for AD&D module UK4: When a Star Falls by Graeme Morris (TSR, 1984), depicting Shalfey the Elder Sage of the Tower of the Heavens, his scheming pupil Piyarz, and the derro of Therno Pass with the mysterious black sphere that toppled their idol.
Jes Goodwin contributed much of the art to TSR-UK's series of modules, but oldhammer fans know him as the designer and sculptor of many early Citadel Miniatures lines, including elves, Eldar, and the similar Eternal Champion figures, early space marines, terminators, chaos for Rogue Trader and fantasy, and the skaven which he created along with much of their lore.
#Jeremy Goodwin#Jes Goodwin#D&D#Dungeons & Dragons#When a Star Falls#derro#Graeme Morris#sage#shooting star#runes#astrology#raven#dnd#Dungeons and Dragons#TSR UK#TSR
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Aren't space marines 2 meters tall?
I do not know the difference between metric and imperial, but Jes Goodwin did a life size sketch of a space marine and it stood seven feet tall.
That and the Tyranid warrior mini is taller than a Primaris marine.
I want killer bugs to be big, so you feel satisfied gibbing one, that is all.
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Vianney and Ed Sheeran, “Call On Me”
This week I want to talk about the song “Call On Me” by Vianney and Ed Sheeran.
“Call On Me” is a bilingual title in which the two artists sing in English and in French. Ed Sheeran is an English singer-songwriter and Vianney is a French singer-songwriter. This duet was recorded in the basement of Ed Sheeran’s London home. Vianney said in an interview he was not against singing in English and that Ed Sheeran wanted to sing in French. Therefore, both singers share their language in their duet “Call On Me”. And Ed Sheeran even sings in French: “Je la sens la solitude sans toi”. This is a great example of popular music because this music was produced and released for the people themselves. Singing in French and in English multiplies the number of listeners because the audience of this song is composed of two different nationalities – French and English. Therefore, I find that there is a link to the chapter on Geographies by Keith Negus because two places, territories, languages, nationalities were used to make this song !
Moreover, the song refers to a subject that affects many human beings. Indeed, “Call On Me” evokes the loss of a loved one. They wanted to write on such a topic because they both experienced loss of people close to them. This song highlights the pain to move forward.
In addition, I want to look at the image that represents the song.
Images are really significant in the music industry, and sometimes images are even symbolic. The black and white photograph serves to illustrate the background of the song on YouTube since there is no music video. Ed Sheeran and Vianney are musicians that portray a sort of “soft image”. During our class on mediations, we said that images in music are associated to create a certain world, a certain aesthetic ; and here it’s totally the case because Vianney and Ed Sheeran have been photographed while recording the song “Call On Me”, and this photograph conveys softness, proximity, and privacy, as the music is about loss and grief.
Negus mentioned the theory of Goodwin. In fact, Goodwin indicated how relations between sound and image are mediated and combined in quite specific ways. There are three ways: illustration, amplification and disjuncture. Here, illustration is the way that perfectly applies to the song of Vianney and Ed Sheeran because the visual of the image used for the music “Call On Me” tries to illustrate the mood of the song. There is an actual visual narrative that tells the story of the song lyric. Hence, I believe this music and this image are a great representation of our course on popular music.
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would love nothing more than for them to release an actual saturnine terminator and a “mark one” terminator and for them to look nothing like the jes goodwin terminator
#warhammer 40000#rogue trader#oldhammer#i'm adamant about the beetle boy terminator NOT being saturnine or mark one
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Alien: de graphic novel
In 1979 veranderde de wereld van sciencefiction en horror voorgoed met de release van 'Alien'. Maar wist je dat deze iconische film ook een graphic novel adaptatie kreeg in hetzelfde jaar?
In Amerika verscheen de graphic novel destijds bij Heavy Metal Magazine. Het werd een gigantische hit en schopte het zo als eerste comic ooit tot de bestseller lijst van de New York Times.
Dat succes was ook terecht, want schrijver Archie Goodwin en tekenaar Walt Simonson leveren hier topwerk. Waar stripbewerkingen van films vaak nogal saai en steriel zijn, staat deze comic echt op zichzelf. Ook wie de film niet gezien zou hebben, beleeft hier een zeer spannende leeservaring. Simonson zorgt ook voor genoeg dynamiek in zijn tekenwerk en layouts om er echt een fijne comic van te maken, waar veel stripbewerkingen tot dan zich beperkten tot een zeer strak keurslijf van 9 kaders per pagina met veel tekst. Niets van dat alles hier. De prachtig geschilderde inkleuring door Louise Simonson maakt het helemaal af. Kijk en geniet (of huiver 🙈😅):
Des te opmerkelijk is dat de strip ongeveer tegelijkertijd met de film is geproduceerd. Archie Goodwin had wel beschikking over het originele filmscript. Simsonson moest het doen met enkele setfoto's en een zeer ruwe eerste cut van de film ter inspiratie.
Ook bij ons verscheen de strip al in 1979 bij uitgeverij Oberon als fraaie hardcover editie. Een echte aanrader!
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