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              <h5 align="right"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#00025E"><loonystart>Vol. 
                2, Issue 4<br>
                December 1, 1999<br>
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              <h5 align="center"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000FF"><i><font color="#904C10" size="3">Under 
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                </font><font color="#904C10" size="6">Dhabih Eng</font><font color="#904C10" size="3"> 
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                <p align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">by 
                  Rowan &quot;<a href="mailto:sumaleth@frag.com">Sumaleth</a>&quot; 
                  Crawford<br>
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                <p align="left"><img src="../../images/letters_new/d.jpg" width="26" height="38" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">oes 
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                  from that Brat-Pack movie, Young Guns, perhaps?</i> Keep guessing. 
                  <i>A decidedly average Michael J Fox comedy? </i>Nope. <i>Maybe 
                  the reason you can't get your broken arm checked out on a sunny 
                  day?</i> Come on, we're talking about games here!</font></p>
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                <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Doc 
                  Holiday, in times past, was the handle used by a young art school 
                  student who, in his spare time produced a small series of fan-art 
                  images based on the id Software game-in-development, <b>Quake 
                  2</b>.</font></p>
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                <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">A Gunner 
                  portrait was first to appear, accompanied by the soft hum of 
                  enthusiasm from a receptive <a href="http://www.bluesnews.com">Blue's 
                  News</a> readership. The image seemed to resonate the look and 
                  feel of the (at the time) still largely under-cover sequel to 
                  the immensely popular, <b>Quake</b>, and it was promptly put 
                  into good use as Windows wallpaper everywhere. </font></p>
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                      <div align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http:/home/loonygames/loony.timedoctor.org/content/cgi/image.pl?image=/content/2.4/uc/images/dhabih_turok2.jpg&amp;w=715&amp;h=904&amp;back=/content/2.4/uc/index.php&amp;name=Under%20Cover"><img src="images/dhabih_turok2_sml.jpg" width="99" height="125" border="0" alt="click to enlarge!"></a></font></div>
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                      <p align="center"> <i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#000253"> 
                        <ignoreme>An image of Turok2 for an Electronic Gaming 
                        Monthly cover. (270k).</ignoreme></font></i></p>
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                <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Time 
                  goes by, the world as a whole settles back down into the previous 
                  daily grind, and Windows is once again reintroduced to the bikini-clad 
                  female form.</font></p>
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                <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">And 
                  then another image is released by Doc Holiday, this time an 
                  atmospheric image of a mysterious flying character from <b>Quake 
                  2</b>. The online community begins to hum again, although this 
                  time it feels a little more like a buzz; the Doc had proven 
                  that the first picture wasn't merely the result of luck. </font></p>
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                <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Readers 
                  of Blue's News and other gaming news sites during that that 
                  period will recall the regular flow of quality images from Doc 
                  Holiday; more <b>Quake 2 </b>pictures at first, but eventually 
                  other themes began to</font></p>
                <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">appear. 
                  And even though they occasionally had little to do with games, 
                  the fan base was well enough established that they continued 
                  to appear as Images Of The Day on a variety of gaming news sites.</font></p>
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                <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Eventually 
                  the Doc's work was spotted by gaming magazines who saw in his 
                  work a style of image highly suited to gaming magazine covers; 
                  large, bold designs, smooth shading and colors, and quite often 
                  quite adventurous designs. He has since gone on to produced 
                  7 magazine covers for a variety of gaming magazines, including 
                  Electronic Gaming Monthly, PCGaming UK, and Game Developer Magazine.</font></p>
                <p align="left"></p>
                <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">With 
                  the change from hobbiest to commercial artist came another change 
                  as well; the signature on his images. He gave the Doc Holiday 
                  moniker back to the Val Kilmers and Michael J Foxes of this 
                  world and</font></p>
                <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">chose 
                  to begin signing the images with his real name; Dhabih Eng. 
                  </font></p>
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                <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">'Dhabih' 
                  is a name that you'd never guess how to pronounce, there's just 
                  no way! The correct pronunciation is like 'ZA-BEE' (and the 
                  Eng bit is 'ENG'). &quot;For those wondering where my name comes 
                  from,&quot; Dhabih explains on his website, &quot;it's because 
                  my dad's half Chinese, half Scottish; and my mom's Persian. 
                  Hence the name Dhabih.&quot; </font></p>
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                <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">As well 
                  as producing magazine cover images, Dhab (Zab) also created 
                  a logo for the gaming news site, <a href="http://www.shugashack.com">sCary's 
                  Shuga Shack</a>, and was also asked by Valve Software to produce 
                  a pair of images for their long-time-in-production but hugely-successful 
                  first person shooter title, <b>Half-Life</b>, a game that, at 
                  the time, was beginning to create an incredible buzz of it's 
                  own. </font></p>
                <p align="left"></p>
                <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">&quot;I 
                  had known a couple of people at Valve (John Guthrie, Steve Bond) 
                  casually before they were hired. One day they invited me down 
                  to check out <b>Half-Life</b> and while I was there I was asked 
                  to do some freelance work.&quot; </font></p>
                <p align="left"></p>
                <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">For 
                  <b>Half-Life</b>, Dhabih was tasked with creating two major 
                  images of the <b>Half-Life </b>Man-Of-Action, Gordon Freeman 
                  (OK, Gordon's really a bit of a nerd, but give him an enviro-suit 
                  and a crowbar and you've got a very hard man indeed!). The two 
                  pictures were; the loading image, seen whenever loading a previously 
                  saved game, and the portrait of Gordy on the box cover. </font></p>
                <p align="left"></p>
                <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">All 
                  the while he was still at university, doing an &quot;Interdisciplinary 
                  Art major at the University of Washington&quot;.</font></p>
                <p align="left"></p>
                <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">&quot;That's 
                  a fancy way of saying 'general art'. So the courses ranged from 
                  painting to jewelry design to furniture design. Some courses 
                  were just fun to try, like the metal classes and clay classes. 
                  It's really interesting to get into other fields of art other 
                  than just 2D. I think the oil painting classes aided me the 
                  most in learning about light shapes, negative shapes, and stuff 
                  like that.&quot;</font></p>
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<p><i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2">Credits: Cover illustration 
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