Caption: Dozens of images from multiple artists help to establish the look, color, lighting, and overall vision for a given level.
If you’ve spent any time at Disneyland, you’ll also notice how much the Gremlin Village has in common with the “It’s a Small World” attraction.
Inside the Game: Epic Mickey | Game Informer
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Disney Epic Mickey is months away from release, but the work involved in its creation began years ago. Anyone who has perused the November 2009 issue of Game Informer understands the project’s dramatic scope and ambition. However, we can only fit so much information in the magazine. In our first Inside the Game online feature, we follow the art and animation development from concept to implementation to get a better sense of how Mickey and his world came to life. Don’t miss your first-ever chance to see early animation tests of Mickey and his friends in action.
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Before you hit the link and begin reading the pages long probe into this upcoming title, know the man behind its scenes who is leading the dev team:
Warren Spector (Wing Commander, Ultima series, System Shock, Thief: The Dark Project, Deus Ex).
“How you decide to play the game should make a difference. You get to determine what kind of hero you are. Everybody solves the problem. Everybody saves the day. Everybody gets to save the world and gets the girl,” Warren Spector tells us, in regards to the shifting spectrum of play styles that change the appearance of Mickey throughout the game. “But how you do it, and how you end up looking is up to you. What abilities you have is up to you. Who likes you is up to you. What missions you hear about or not is up to you.” Each version of Mickey has a distinct look crafted by the character artists at Mickey, from the crouching and feral scrapper to the stalwart hero.
From what I gleaned skimming through the article, it looks to be that you'll ge given a choice of 3 Mickeys - Scrapper Mickey, Wastelander Mickey, and Hero Mickey. The article includes a couple of work-in-progress videos showing Mickey in action.
Epic Mickey is slated for a 2010 release
exclusively on the Wii console.
