Gladus Tite - small version done, appropriately scaled version to come in the future
Ayden Stone - 90 % done; needs weaponry
Ronan Barec - 85% done; needs final color scheme and markings, camo poncho
Altair Jiriad - 0%, Vong imitation armor---to come
Atross - 0%, Togorian in custom Mando armor---to come
Ara Norvath - 0%, female Mando---to come
Salem Rios - 0%, Feeorin Galactic Alliance officier---to come

maybe others will come, too

http://CorranFett.deviantart.com/journal/16735502/ Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:21:15 PDT Rage of the Shadow Warriors, a series of Star Wars fanfiction stories that are centered on Mandalorians in the NJO-era. You can find links to it in my sig or my profile.

This is a list of all artwork, created by me or others, of characters, equipment or other stuff from RotSW.

The list is at the top, you can view the backstory below it.

I also have set this whole thing up as a Gallery here: Gallery of Rage of the Shadow Warrior images

UPDATED 09/19/08:

- three work-in-progress drawings of Ronan's armor suit, by ~Kuk-Man
- a Gladus Tite fanart by *Tercado, depicting him on an assassin job
- drafts of ancient Clan Barec beastmasters and their Ithorian dragons, by ~Mitch-i-mon
- "Weary Warrior", a drawing of Ara Norvath, by *FalconFan

(see below the list for more)

Covers:

Honor Guard (photomanip'd artworks)
Runner (photomanip'd stills)
Pariah (photomanip'd game render)
When Few Stood Against Many (collage, photomanip)

Wallpapers:

Rage of the Shadow Warriors - Teaser Wallpaper V1 (featuring Gladus Tite)
Rage of the Shadow Warriors - Teaser Wallpaper V2

Character Art (character names link directly to wiki profiles)

Ronan Barec
- Ronan - profile artwork (photomanip)
- Holocam snapshot of Ronan (photomanip)
- Ronan in his former armor (coloring of a lineart of Boba Fett by Ryan Benjamin)
- Ronan in his special forces time (pencils by ~commander-13, colors to come)
- Ronan, the special forces sniper (pencils by ~commander-13, colors to come)

Gladus Tite
- Gladus in his full suit of Mandalorian armor (pencils by ~Kuk-Man, inks and colors)
- Gladus versus two Yuuzhan Vong (pencils and inks by *itmon, colors by me)
- Gladus, reflecting on the war (pencils, inks and colors by ~Daennika)
- A middle-aged Gladus on a merc job (by *Tercado, colored version by me)
- Gladus's face, closeup (photomanip, same as Pariah cover)
- Shady holocam surveillance still (photomanip)
- A beardless Gladus contacting one of his clients on the holo (photomanip'd game screenie)
- Gladus, holding a Twi'lek Peace Brigader by the neck (scene from WFSAM, photomanip'd game render)

Ara Norvath
- Ara Norvath - Weary Warrior (artwork by * ~CorranFett http://CorranFett.deviantart.com/journal/14811379/ http://CorranFett.deviantart.com/journal/14811379/ Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:43:21 PDT
The Star Wars Artist Guild's back, a guild of very talented fan artists creating some of the most original SW art you can find, mostly centered on RPG. It's also big on requests, so if you want a PC or OC of your's illustrated, be sure to give it a go.

But most importantly, check it out to widen your horizons on SW fan artwork, there's really brilliant stuff over there.

A few cool DevArt artists reside there as well:



There are more, but they have different usernames and I can't seem to find 'em right now...

EDIT: Crap. Thanks to CucumberBoy for fixing my spelling on "Black"... it escapes me how I was able to write "Read" instead... now leave me alone, my head's currently busy banging against the table.^^

]]> ~CorranFett http://CorranFett.deviantart.com/journal/14614342/ http://CorranFett.deviantart.com/journal/14614342/ Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:33:16 PDT

Please beware of spoilers in this kinda "review".

It has an unreached atmosphere and a so compelling, awesomely-done story nearly any other game out there could take a leaf out of. The stunning graphics and grandiose 5.1 Dolby Digital sound and soundtrack is only a nice side effect (I'm playing on full details on a second rate PC, and I still can't believe it looks that good with a totally smooth framerate).

It has one of the most jaw-dropping scenes in game history, the one where you reach Ryan's office and you are revealed the truth about Atlas and frankly, yourself, the player. Ryan's "sacrifice" gave me troubles closing my mouth again after minutes, and the revelation was so unbelievably great that I reloaded the last savegame to "watch" it again, to take it in completely. That scene alone makes Bioshock a must-play.

However, there isn't only praise lost for Bioshock. The beforementioned scene takes place at about 3/4 of the game, and they should've ended it there. While the randomly swapping plasmids and protecting Little Sisters is a very great idea, the final fight itself, and both endings, were kinda underwhelming. Especially the fight against Fontaine was sucker, it's the average FPS boss enemy fast-food, as we've seen it in hundreds of games before. I would've hoped for a more original concept for confronting that guy. I've seen both endings, and for me, they aren't really giving the story a satisfying, concluding frame. It's too centered on the Little Sisters, I think, because there's so much more fascinating about Rapture than just them, and by the audio tapes alone, you're far from getting the whole picture. While especially the "not offering the whole picture" is probably one of the main design ideas behind Bioshock, as it makes the player turn on his brain for once and animates him to become proactive in building the story (something nearly no game has done before, and for which I'm more than thankful for because this hopefully makes "post-Bioshock" games regard proper storytelling more highly), I think the game is giving the player a little bit too much freedom in that direction. Even when you do manage to find and listen to all audio tapes in the game (I tried, but I think I only found about 90%), it still doesn't give you enough to know what is and was going on in Rapture. You get the general idea, but you can only imagine the details, and each player will have another impression of Rapture's past. But as I said before, exactly that was probably intended by the creators of the game, and (hopefully) not only because they want to use it as a cliffhanger to make more people buy a sequel. I think highly enough of the people behind Bioshock that they aren't looking only for profit, and really want get their game's story get into the minds of the players. But still, I feel a bit betrayed by the game, as it raises so many questions and doesn't offer a satisfying amount of answers to them, let alone and ending that only raises more questions. Yes, it is true that this adds a lot to the mystery of Rapture, but it's a little bit too much mystery in my opinion.

Another thing that I'd like to criticize is that all too often, Bioshock comes down to being like every other plain shooter out there. Yes, there are a lot of great, creepy shocker moments (with excellently applied scripted sequences), and there really are millions of ways to deal with a threat, but the farther you're into the game, the less different ways to deal with said threats you use. Once you've got enough plasmids, tonics and ammo, and found your personal best way to deal with splicers and Big Daddys, you won't experiment to find other solutions any more, like you had in the first few hours of the game. I, for my part, have become a sorta "close-combatist", applying the "zapp 'em, then whack 'em" tactic on splicers most of the time. With my tonics spent on giving the wrench as much impact as possible, and other tonics spent on lightning and freeze fields around me, I just stun a splicer with an electro-bolt, move up to him and take him out with two or three wrench-bashes. I only have to change that tactic when it comes to Houdini splicers and these Thuggish splicers that are kinda immune to electro-bolts because they use 'em themselves, and of course for Big Daddys. But since there are only so few enemy types, I find good tactics for them very soon as well, and it starts to get boring. You don't want to experiment any longer, because you don't wanna waste time, and since the enemies are becoming harder, too, you don't wanna die all too often.

Further on, some objectives are very annoying, because you have to return to places you've already been and pick up items that weren't pick-up-able bef... ]]> ~CorranFett http://CorranFett.deviantart.com/journal/14542957/ http://CorranFett.deviantart.com/journal/14542957/ Fri, 14 Sep 2007 06:40:56 PDT TheForce.Net Fan Art forums, with artwork from Deviants here that do some amazing SW art.

Well, I lied. I made two banners.

Et voilà, here's the result:

Numbero Uno et Numbero Duo

I due time, you will see them on the forums, every now and then, since the banners there will be rotating every week or month. Here the banner submission thread where I posted them.

Now, here's to credit all the artists featured in the banners:

~CorranFett http://CorranFett.deviantart.com/journal/10534245/ http://CorranFett.deviantart.com/journal/10534245/ Sat, 28 Oct 2006 04:57:59 PDT
Be sure to check out the Art contest over at TFN: [link]

]]> ~CorranFett http://CorranFett.deviantart.com/journal/10048236/ http://CorranFett.deviantart.com/journal/10048236/ Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:11:16 PDT Orchestral music like in Hans Zimmer's "The Battle", with choral voices like in Jesse's Harlin's "Rage of the Shadow Warriors" (in Mando'a), all fitting to the visuals and action.

TEXT[ANNOUNCED(VO) and on black background]: Mandalorians

Shots of Mandalorian Drop Ships landing, and dozens of Mandalorian warriors, led by a Mandalorian in silver and golden armor, RONAN BAREC, forming up on the small, tropical island in the dimm ambience of the evening's sunset.


TEXT[ANNOUNCED(VO) and with dark-red-glowing font on black background]: And the Galaxy's Most Notorious Bounty Hunter

Close-up of Mandalore Boba Fett in a spacecraft, who is enganged in a battle against Yuuzhan Vong ground forces.


TEXT[ANNOUNCED(VO) and with dark-red-glowing font on black background]: In a united struggle against extragalactic invaders

Pause (only black)

TEXT[ANNOUNCED(VO) and with dark-red-glowing font on black background]: The Yuuzhan Vong

Shots of fierce looking Yuuzhan Vong warriors on a dark, misty battlefield covered with corpses, ready to strike with their living weapons.


TEXT[ANNOUNCED(VO) and with dark-red-glowing font on black background]: The odds are about to change

Shot of a Yuuzhan Vong Commander and his Inferior in the Yuuzhan Vong Headquarter

INFERIOR: "Sir, we have a meteor shower incoming."

Fades to a scene in the atmosphere above DUBRILLION, with about fifteen meteor-like glowing and rapidly descending objects coming down on the planet.

Fades back to the Yuuzhan Vong base.

COMMANDER: "Send in a squadron of yorik-ets."

Flash to another scene in the same place.

INFERIOR: "Sir, we have lost contact to the pilots of the yorik-ets!"

COMMANDER(furious): "Send in another one!"

Fades to the starting scene on the small island, only that there are no Mandalorians to be seen.

A Yuuzhan Vong transport craft lands, with a warrior platoon deloying. The subaltern leading them looks around, before he suddenly sees figures appearing in the distance.

Motion slows and camera moves to the silver/golden armored Mandalorian, RONAN BAREC, who has a rifle with a bayonet aimed at the Yuuzhan Vong subaltern. He pulls the trigger, and a bullet fires right into the Yuuzhan Vong's head, all in slow motion with the camera moving back to the Vong.


TEXT[ANNOUNCED(VO) and with dark-red-glowing font on black background]: But even the galaxy's most skilled warriors don't stand against an overwhelming force.

Shots of hundreds of Yuuzhan Vong storming a Mandalorian position, and the Mandalorians retreat.


TEXT[ANNOUNCED(VO) and with dark-red-glowing font on black background]: The situation is more than desperate, before another highly skilled warrior comes to their aide.

Shots of a red, blurry silhouette amidst a group of Yuuzhan Vong warriors, falling to the ground one after another.


TEXT[ANNOUNCED(VO) and on black background]: Kir Kanos.

Close-up of the same scene only a short time later, with Kanos in his crimson-red Royal Guard armor standing on a heep of Yuuzhan Vong corpses.


TEXT[ANNOUNCED(VO) and on black background]: With an united enemy like that, the Yuuzhan Vong are about to experience an all new level of pain.


Shots of an Mandalorian Gunboat dropping napal bombs and parachute troopers with flamethrowers, with Yuuzhan Vong desintegrating under waves of fire. Camera closes in on the fire, until nothing else is to be seen.


TEXT[ANNOUNCED(VO) and growing white font on a burning background]: Rage of the Shadow Warriors

TEXT[ANNOUNCED(VO) and growing white font on a burning background, appearing beneath the former one]: HONOR GUARD

TEXT: Now HERE [link] ]]> ~CorranFett http://CorranFett.deviantart.com/journal/9927890/ http://CorranFett.deviantart.com/journal/9927890/ Fri, 01 Sep 2006 08:41:38 PDT
I think I'm getting around quite well so far, and I'd like to ink some of my sketches (or else's, since mine are not quite good inking examples to work on, lol...)

So, if anybody has some hints on inking with Corel Painter, and what brushes to use; I'd really appreciate any! ]]> ~CorranFett http://CorranFett.deviantart.com/journal/9124386/ http://CorranFett.deviantart.com/journal/9124386/ Sat, 08 Jul 2006 09:49:26 PDT overcome the galaxy.
A race of outergalactic
invaders has brought
death and devastation
to the galaxy. Another
old race is rising from
it's long absence in
order to fight the
Yuuzhan Vong and help
the hopeless galaxy.

A task force of the New Mandalorian Protectors is sent to Dubrillion
to retake the Vong headquater from the Scarheads, under the lead
of an elite warrior."

featuring: Boba Fett, Kir Kanos, lots of Yuuzhan Vong and Mandalorians, lots of action, and my OC, Ronan Barec

If you're interested in more, come visit here: [link]

Or you can read the printable PDF right her - it's 60 pages (Verdana, 10pt) and 25000 words: [link] ]]> ~CorranFett http://CorranFett.deviantart.com/journal/4995308/ http://CorranFett.deviantart.com/journal/4995308/ Mon, 04 Apr 2005 07:16:31 PDT
RC-1776 'Tracyn':
Sev-Six is the squad leader. He is specialized on explosives, grenades and rocket launchers (and DC-17m armor attachment). He's a very dark voice, and his orders are always clear and unmistakeable. Tracyn is a bit brutal with his enemies, but that makes him not less efficient. His squadmates are very loyal to him and are happy they have such a strong leader. He was trained, like to whole squad, by Sergeant Walon Vau and sometimes even by Jango Fett himself. And that's an honor 'cause they're they only squad apart from Delta Squad who were partially trained by the deadly Bounty Hunter. Tracyn has learned much from his Mandalorian trainer. He's modified his armor with a flamethrower biuld in above his right glove. He was personally trained by Jango in this weapon, and he uses it deadly efficient.
Quote: "Sa kyr'am Nau tracyn kad... - fire is what leads to victory"

RC-5665 'Ceptor':
Ceptor is not only Havoc Squad's 'second-in-command' but also the squad's sniper. Cep (how he somtimes also called) handles the sniper attachment of his DC-17m like no one else. But even better he uses the "BlasTech DC-13s High Precision Sniper Rifle", a weapon created by BlasTech with "help" of several "sniping-loving" commandos and military specialists (e.g. Sev from Delta Squad, Ceptor himself).
He has modified his helmet with a build-in rangefinder, so that he can snipe also with "usual" weapons without scopes. He is always the last one and gives the others rear cover. Without him, Havoc Squad would have fallen into many ambushes. He is nearly more respected by the rest of the squad than Tracyn. But Six-Five doesn't want a promotion, he's very content with his position.
Quote: "Only a clear headshot is a good headshot."

RC-2398 'Nate':
Nine-Eight is a military allrounder, drilled on each weapon. He places headshots with a blaster pistol just like he does with a heavy repeater. He masters military tactics like no other commando and Sergeant Vau doen't know how Nate got this skill. So he's involed with a mission before his squadmates are, and he alters each mission plan to a promising chance of success. Nate is also very interested in Mandalorian military history. Maybe that's the source for his tactical knownledge, who knows...?
Quote: "If we place two camo mines here and here, we can kill most of our enemies before they even get a chance to see us."

RC-1355 'Cyph':
Already his name partially indicates Five-Five's specialty (Cy from 'cyber'): technology. His skills in hacking terminals are nearly as good as Fixer's. Cyph is also the squads moral sustainer. His ironical comments animate his "brothers" and give 'em their guts back. He also has a special visor mode that let's him see droids throuh walls and locate terminals very quick.
Quote: "Ever seen a droid thru walls? Well, u won't get a chance as well." ]]> ~CorranFett