Ahoy mateys! I really couldn't find a better place to post this, and since we use this section more or less as a "General Chat" I decided to do it here.
So, I stumbled upon this gentleman today! A young Mr. Max Simoneau! And what I saw in his ArtStation got my jaw drop on the floor.
At first I though "wow, this guy is really good" but then I realized some of the concepts he made and posted, are actually 2+ years old and that's when he smacked me in the teeth. Please allow me to show you.
Firebombs:
Arena clothing & Reaper Chest (which are not just similar to the ones in the game, they 1:1 copies):
Ashen Lord?
For those of you who still don't understand what I'm talking about, 2 years ago, these things did not exist in SoT!!
His ArtStation is stacked with all kinds of stuff, some of which already made it into the game:
- winter clothing (almost 1:1 again)
- Asian style ship cosmetics
, and who knows how much more stuff that my eye has missed.
There's also tons of things which we haven't really seen but are brutally awesome:
- ice biome
- ice skeletons
- gold cursed wyvern
He even has concepts of whole fan-made expansions!
Now, I was thinking, after I realized how many of his things were actually implemented into the game, I thought "ok, I get it, this must be a an artist working for Rare" but then I quickly scratched that theory, because if he was indeed working for Rare, he wouldn't just be posting future content around the internet.
SO!! WHO IS MAX SIMONEAU REALLY?!
My current theory revolves around him starting out with these concepts, and then immediately getting picked up by Rare to draw for SoT. But this theory is also close to being scratched, as his later posts (ones from less than 2y), also contradict to showing people highly classified work in progress.
So I'm out of guesses really... Who is this guy?
