Wil Overton is a British
artist
An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating the work of art. The most common usage (in both everyday speech and academic discourse) refers to a practitioner in the visual arts o ...
, specialising in
manga
are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long history in earlier Japanese art. The term is used in Japan to refer to both comics ...
styles.
Career
He has worked for a number of notable British
video games
A video game or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, game controller, controller, computer keyboard, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual fe ...
magazines
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, including
Super Play
''Super Play'' was a British Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) magazine which ran from 1 October 1992 to September 1996.
Overview
''Super Play'' covered in great detail the role-playing video game genre. Many of these games were nev ...
and
N64 Magazine. He then worked at
Rare and was an illustrator for
NGamer magazine. After Overton drew the ''Perfect Dark'' cover for N64 Magazine at the time of the game's release, the manga-styled Joanna Dark design impressed Rare, and he was hired by the company as a result; the original cell-shaded designs for ''
Perfect Dark Zero'' were based on this design, but later changed to more realistic graphics.
Since leaving Rare, Overton has been a freelance artist. He will provide art for the instruction manual of the
Playtonic Games title, ''
Yooka-Laylee''.
See also
*
Matt Bielby, video game magazine editor
*
Julian Rignall
Julian "Jaz" Rignall (born 6 March 1965, London, England) is a writer and editor. He has also produced content for corporate websites such as GamePro Media, publisher of ''GamePro'' magazine and ''GamePro.com'', marketing collateral and advert ...
, video game magazine publisher
*
Helen McCarthy, anime book author
External links
Official website
References
British artists
British magazine illustrators
Living people
Rare (company) people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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