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                      <p><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000FF"><i><a href="../../2.1/uc/index.html"><font color="#904C10" size="3">Under 
                        Cover - Francis Tsai</font></a></i></font></b><br>
                      <div align="right"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">By 
                        Rowan &quot;<a href="mailto:sumaleth@frag.com">Sumaleth</a>&quot; 
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                    <h5 align="right"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#00025E">Vol. 
                      2, Issue 3&nbsp; <br>
                      November 22, 1999&nbsp; </font></b></h5>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">On the 
                topic of favorite artists, Francis has a long list;</font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">&quot;Almost 
                too many to mention, but a good cross section would be (in no 
                particular order):</font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Masamune 
                Shirow - mecha and vehicle design, the &quot;sketchy&quot; style 
                of his ink work, watercolor/paint stuff.</font></p>
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                      <p align="center"> <i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#000253"> 
                        <ignoreme>Some 'urban design' by Francis (90k).</ignoreme></font></i></p>
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                </font></font>Thomas Schaller (architectural renderer) - watercolorist; 
                I really like his ability to capture mood and light quality.</div>
              </font> 
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Lebbeus 
                Woods (architect) - architectural design.</font></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Chris 
                Bachalo - characters and layout/graphic style.</font></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Alphonse 
                Mucha - technique, layout/graphic design.</font></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Craig 
                Mullins - Photoshop paint technique.</font></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Alex Ross 
                - seeing comic characters rendered in a realistic style.</font></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Joe Madureira 
                - character design, graphics/layout.</font></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Travis 
                Charest - draftsmanship, attention to detail.&quot;</font></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Francis' 
                approach to artwork uses both traditional and computer based techniques; 
                &quot;Typically, I will scan a pencil drawing and paint it in 
                Photoshop. There are two approaches to painting I use:</font></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1) To 
                get a comic or anime effect, I will leave the line art in the 
                final drawing and use more &quot;flat&quot; coloring, although 
                I do add some highlights and shadows; an example of this would 
                be the &quot;<a href="http://www.teamgt.com/francis/art/seven.jpg">Seven 
                of Nine</a>&quot; painting or the &quot;<a href="http://www.teamgt.com/francis/art/konoko02.jpg">Konoko</a>&quot; 
                painting.</font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">2) To 
                achieve a more painterly effect, I will use the pencil drawing 
                as an underlay and paint over it using higher opacity. I then 
                add lighting, shade and depth using different levels of opacity. 
                An example of this style would be the &quot;<a href="http://www.teamgt.com/francis/art/borg3.jpg">Borg</a>&quot; 
                painting in my portfolio.</font></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">In the 
                past I've used a variety of processes although prior to starting 
                with Photoshop I pretty much stuck to pencil and watercolor. An 
                example of this is the &quot;<a href="http://www.teamgt.com/francis/art/saul.jpg">Saul</a>&quot; 
                image.</font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">During 
                Francis' professional career he has continued to work as a freelance 
                artist under the moniker of <a href="http://www.teamgt.com/">Team 
                GT</a>, working on a variety of projects, &quot;typical projects 
                include vehicle airbrush art for custom automotive body shop, 
                T-shirt and logo art, murals, interior design and signage for 
                retail, comic book art and advertising story board art.&quot; 
                In recent months Francis has also produced some 'fan art' in his 
                spare time - such as the previously mentioned Konoko drawing which 
                is based on the upcoming Bungie title, Oni - and has had some 
                of his images shown on the game orientated fan-art site, <a href="http://www.gameart.com">GameArt</a>.</font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">And what 
                does the future hold for Francis Tsai?</font></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">&quot;I'm 
                currently working on a new project with Presto Studios that will 
                last through most of the next year. This is a pre-rendered adventure 
                game which requires a lot of pre-production work. After that, 
                probably a real time third person action/adventure game, and after 
                that, who knows?</font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">--</font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">To see 
                more of Francis' art, and you really should, there is a portfolio 
                of his imagery on the <a href="http://www.teamgt.com/index2.htm">Team 
                GT</a> site, including architectual drawings, characters, comic 
                art, and a funny little animated Captain Picard. <b>Star Trek: 
                Hidden Evil</b> is due for release this coming friday (26th November), 
                although there are reports that some stores have it on sale already.</font></p>
              <p align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><i>- 
                Rowan &quot;Sumaleth&quot; Crawford is loonygames' Supervising 
                Art Director.</i></font></p>
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<p><i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2">Credits: Cover illustration 
  &copy; 1999 Francis Tsai Under Cover is &copy; 1999 Rowan Crawford. All other 
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  you cartoonish villian, you.</font></i></p>
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