Telltale needs to hire these guys.
 

Some guys remade a bunch of Blood Island backgrounds and characters in 3d, and their work is stunning. Now this is Monkey Island.

http://goblin.scummbar.com/full/3db/storageroom.jpg

http://goblin.scummbar.com/full/3db/shipwreck1.jpg

More artwork here.

At first I was all like :)

Then I was all like :D

And I'm like :confused:

And after some :rolleyes:

I am still :confused:

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d9.../seperated.png

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Stan is neither manny enough to be Manny, and Manny isn't stanly enough to be Stan. Not to mention being a height deficient Mexican.

nice!

Their environment designs are pretty great, and they match Tiller's layout & painting style. Whether that's a good or bad for Tiller, I don't know, but it's pretty cool none the less.

Cool for something not made professionally(or for a professional job), but I wouldn't want to play a Monkey island game that looked like that. That is, I'd probably play it, but I'd hardly be sold on the looks alone, nor would I say "this feels like Monkey Island". Then again, I'm in the minority of people that thinks Curse doesn't at all "feel like Monkey Island", so perhaps I'm just a contradictory, contemptuous git.

Well, as long as you're aware of it.

Man Blood Island still looks awesome in awkward 3D!

haha! indeed.
I love Curse.

However good the background art is in this 3D rendering, the character models are bad. Stan, the Voodoo Lady, Elaine-turned-to-gold, and Goodsoup all look awful. Also when I look at Elaine's gold statue, the shadowing on her body makes her breasts stand out. Literally. Kudos to the background artist, but whoever did the characters needs to keep their day job.

Meh, CMI doesn't really need 3D. 3D never beats beautiful handcrafted 2D. That said, I barely notice any difference at all in the first posted shot.

Can't be bothered to see all pics in the link, but I would say I would prefer the old CMI style look.

Well, here's some 2D for ya. From the same link. Really, I'm surprised none of the rabid Sam & Max fans around here posted this already

http://goblin.scummbar.com/full/2db/sm1.jpg

Heh, most of these are pretty old. Mixnmojo just happened to re-launch the site recently.

Wow, maybe you can make a special edition of Curse...

It's not perfect, but I'm a little more willing to see what can be done with it.

Re-scan the art, make it high-res, and, if you reallyyyy have to, add new models for the characters so that shadows grow when they stand under trees, etc. Smooth out some of the animation (the bit where Guybrush sighs at the opening has always been a little clunky). Maybe get the original guys to extend the epilogue. Maybe.

Otherwise, leave it alone. Don't even make the clouds move. Leave. It. Alone.

Pretty much this and have the audio at 48Khz for Vocals and SFX and 44.1Khz for Music, and not have it compressed like Tales (no offence to Telltale but I can see why they do it), that's all Curse needs if it were to be updated, just rescanned at a higher resolution and better colour depth and higher frequency uncompressed audio.

I dunno it doesn't feel right. some environments look good, but the people look terrible. And like Hassat Hunter said: 3D never beats beautiful handcrafted 2D. I love 2d

I thought this thread would be about the guys who made "Ben There Dan That" and "Time Gentlemen Please."

This is what I've been saying for months. However, to get there we need MI2 Special Edition first, so hopefully LucasArts won't divert its attention from us Monkey Island fans too soon.

Wow, these look really good. I'm liking 'em a lot