Thursday, January 7, 2010

Forbidden Island Board Game

I recently had the opportunity to work with Gamewright to create artwork for a board game called Forbidden Island. I created all the artwork for the game, this includes: the box, play pieces, board tiles, and player cards. The play pieces will be sculpted in China.

The release date for the game will be somewhere around March of 2010. I am looking forward to playing the game when it is out. You can see the teaser trailer for the game on You Tube. Here's the link... Forbidden Island Trailer

These are a series of sketches to one of the board tiles. This board tile was eventually chosen to be the image for the box art.





Here is the box art image. As you can see it is a combination of elements from the sketches above.



Forbidden Island box tin front and back.



These are some of the sketches for the board tiles. These are all locations in the game.




Here are some of the finished board tiles.







Playing around with island shapes.

37 comments:

isabella said...

super amazing chris! when can we see the actual board game!?

neiko said...

They are awesome. i love it!

Dan Cooney said...

Beautiful work Chris! I want to go to there right there -- amazing! Well done.

Carl Knox said...

sweeeeet concepts chris! i was thinking the other day "what happened to all the cool board games we used to play as kids".... guess they got taken over by video games. damn kids of today! :P

Jenea said...

Hi dear Canga! It's really very interesting and funny!!! I want so much this Awesome game ( I think)!!! What kind of method you use in your paint!! -Photoshop??? :)

Oscar Rosales said...

WOW these are great! Awesome stuff C.B.! Congrats, wishing you a lot of success in 2010! Take care buddy!

Steven Wayne Howard said...

as always, awesome work!

abhishek singh said...

this is such BEAUTIFUL work and so MUCH as well ,
i love the way you explore composition, ,
, love the sketches and the colors in the final render , do u also do color thumbnails before the final one?

Barry O'Donoghue said...

Great concepts, I love the colour studies.

EL Gato Negro said...

awesome Dude this looks like it was a fun project to work on !!

Ty Carter said...

awesome

Robert Trujillo/Tres said...

Dope!!! feelin these and taking notes!

RAWLS said...

Very cool looking my friend!!

Chris Deboda said...

Awesome job with these man!

David GJ said...

Awesome! I like a lot how you use the colour in your pictures.

"TORI CAT" said...

beautiful work as always!!
Sorry i havent been in touch much.
Been a busy year!!
Hope you are well and keep up the AMAZING work!!
YOur such an awesome inspiration!!
Happy new year to you and all the best!!
T.x

Chris said...

It's fantastic, and I will add it to the board game collection here!

Daniel said...

Hi Cris...
Beautiful drawings and pictures... you're good.

Daniel Valadez said...

Man this is fantastic stuff!

pablo pablo said...

very nice!

Em said...

this is just fantabulous beyooond fantabulous, Chris. Just so so awesome. And your kids get to play a game you designed too! How cool is that.

Referee said...

That is gorgeous art! Game will be a pleasure to play.

JRonson said...

Great expressive work ! i liked a lot really

jonnadon said...

dude!! i love the illustrations

"TORI CAT" said...

Mannnn, Im always so knocked back with the amount and knock out Quality of your work!!
You Rock!!
Im so sorry i have not been in touch for a long time. I have not really had much chance to do lots of bloggin recently. Just slap up the odd post now and then, but never really have the time to go checking out all the other wonders there are in the bloggin world!!

Like i said, your colours, your life drawing, your layouts, backgrounds, characters... you have every thing and do it so well!!
A massive inspiration!!
Hope you are keeping well?
T.xx

Aaron said...

Very Nice C. Thanks for posting!

Richard Cu Doble said...

awesome chris!!!!

Martin Bergquist said...

What a nice update, beautiful work!

Eli said...

Hi Chris,

This is Eli Stutz, author of Pickle Impossible. I just wanted to thank you for the great work you did on the cover and inside the book. You do amazing stuff - keep it up!

Thanks again!

Eli

George Cwirko-Godycki said...

awesome, this is really cool

M. Wilson said...

Beautiful pieces bro!

Ricky said...

wow, that's so cool! i just saw the trailer too, i really wanna play it. beautiful board titles!

Desiree Cassidy said...

Wow!!! Amazing! I love the location ones!

Mimi Cortazar said...

Beautiful work Chris!
very interesting :)

Stephan said...

that looks really nice! Cool!

Jonathan said...

Ha! these look great. It must be awesome to have your artwork on a tin!

Arne said...

Awesome illustrations! Can't wait for it to come out in germany!