Original Jazz 2 Artwork

[Nickadoo]

Hey guys,

I'm Nick Stadler, one of the members of O.G. Jazz team. I'm in the process of moving and I've been doing a lot of long overdue spring cleaning. I happened to come across a stack of old artwork, specifically nearly all of the original black & white ink drawings I did for Jazz 2 promotional material, as well as the full color ink/color pencil drawing of both Jazz & Spaz that appeared on the Jazz 2 box and cover screen.

I'm considering auctioning them off as a set on eBay once I'm finally settled into my new place. First, though, I thought I'd see if any of you diehard fans would actually even contemplate bidding on it.

Included:

Full color original rendering of Jazz & Spaz (box cover/title screen image)

Black & white line drawing of Jazz & Spaz (same as above)

Approximately 9 or 10 pages of line drawings of Jazz, Spaz, Eva, Devan and several in-game enemies that were used throughout the manual (black & white line drawings that were scanned and later colored in DPaint)

Original black and white line drawings of the comic book (Time Warp) which appeared in the manual. (All of the talk bubble inside copy was added later in DPaint).

Several pages of early concept pencil sketch art with scribbled notes.

I'll take photos of everything later (everything is packed away at the moment). If I decide to do this, the auction will take place sometime in early October.

Part of me doesn't want to part with it, but I know it's just gonna continue to sit in storage.

-Nickadoo

[Love & Thunder]

That sounds fantastic. :D

I'd definitely at least keep an eye on the bidding(Mostly depends on how expensive it gets).

[Louis K]

Cool,
looks interesting :D When will be finished?

[Stijn]

As said, yeah, I'd probably bid on a few things. It would be nice to have some tangible memento of the games, and original concept art would fill that role pretty well :)

[KRSplatinum]

Nickadoo, you did such a great job on the art in Jazz Jackrabbit that 20 years later people still appreciate and play the game, your original drawings will be a great addition to any JJ fan's collection. Thanks for making Jazz such a great fun and longlasting project.

[Bobby aka Dizzy]

I'd be very interesting in bidding on what you describe. Some Jazz artwork would look great next to my Jazz plush toy! :)

If it's not too much extra trouble for you I'd consider putting up the items as separate auctions so multiple people are able to get some nice mementos.

[Nickadoo]

I'd be very interesting in bidding on what you describe. Some Jazz artwork would look great next to my Jazz plush toy! :)

If it's not too much extra trouble for you I'd consider putting up the items as separate auctions so multiple people are able to get some nice mementos.

You don't think it'd be more valuable if I put it all together in a single package? I was thinking even throwing in an autographed copy of an old CD-ROM beta version of the game (although I can't promise it'll work all that well. heh heh).

[Bobby aka Dizzy]

You don't think it'd be more valuable if I put it all together in a single package? I was thinking even throwing in an autographed copy of an old CD-ROM beta version of the game (although I can't promise it'll work all that well. heh heh).

I'm interested in what other people here think. My thoughts right now are that I'd love a piece or two of artwork but anything too much more than that is likely to end up in my closet in a box which would be a shame!

[DoubleGJ]

If you'll enlist all of them in a single auction then I guess the bids will rocket so high that my chances of winning the auction would be rather slim. :B I'd be more than happy with owning just a single picture, and I'm just a young freelancer so my cash income is rather slim :D

[Stijn]

I'm with Bobby and DoubleGJ on this one. Maybe a one-in-all package would in the end make you more money, but personally I'd be less interested in that than in one or two pictures that'd be meaningful (and affordable) to me. Plus, I wouldn't have to fight over them with the others ;)

[ShadowGPW]

bring money, i'm bidding.

[Nickadoo]

Funny thing. Cliffy has the original Jazz 1 cover art. I didn't even know where that went until he tweeted a pic of it framed. I was like, "Bitch, what? When did you snag that from me?!" LOL

[ShadowGPW]

Nick, you know what.. what if we bid high on the items and you dump us a lil tribute ;)

in all serious ness, i would love to have a jazz drawing here. rather see little bundles then one big one.

[Nickadoo]

Nick, you know what.. what if we bid high on the items and you dump us a lil tribute ;)

in all serious ness, i would love to have a jazz drawing here. rather see little bundles then one big one.

I will happily break it up into multiple auctions if I thought anyone would actually bid on them. The reason I posted here was to gauge interest to see if anyone actually would bid on this stuff in the first place. I honestly wasn't expecting to get more than one or two hundred bucks for the entire package. If you guys are actually worried that the bids will go higher than that, I'm honestly flattered.

But truth be told, I don't want to part with anything if I'm only getting 5 or 6 bucks for it. It won't be worth my time or effort to pack and ship it, and honestly it still does carry a lot of sentimental value to part with it.

[Hare]

I'd bid up to $25 for a single drawing. Something I could frame on the wall. It is definitely worth more, but this is what I can afford at the time. I imagine that bidding would go higher.

Oh, and you could contact this guy...
http://kotaku.com/5908177/can-you-name-the-video-game-rabbit-hero-forever-etched-on-my-forearm

I'm sure you could get an article about the auction on Kotaku.

[DoubleGJ]

Kotaku
please no
But truth be told, I don't want to part with anything if I'm only getting 5 or 6 bucks for it. It won't be worth my time or effort to pack and ship it, and honestly it still does carry a lot of sentimental value to part with it.
I'm with Hare on this, $25-30 for even one pic is where I'd go. My band just released a Jazz Jackrabbit remix EP recently and we gathered some hype on Facebook and the likes, so we can advertise the auctions if there's not enough interest.

[ShadowGPW]

Don't underestimate the fans outside this forum. I'm pretty sure.. no.. I just know that some pieces will skyrocket! We are talking about the original Jazz Jackrabbit art work, that won't come cheap! :D

[GuMmYBeAr!]

Oh lord, John. What are you making me do.

Nick, I would literally buy everything for the package's actual worth. If you are interested in giving us dibs on it, it's really sweet. But you could make a /lot/ of money by opening this up outside of the forums.

[ShadowGPW]

Totally agreed Tyff! I feel sorry for our wallets :(

[n0]

Nick, just to give you an idea of the response you are getting, I haven't seen Gummy, Shadow, or Bobby online in probably 6 years. You are making the old, die hard fans come out of the woodwork for a piece of this action. And yeah, I'd take a single frame-able piece for around $25 as well.

[Treylina]

I haven't seen Gummy, Shadow, or Bobby online in probably 6 years.

Shadow and Bobby have been online in the game a couple of months ago (maybe they've been on more recently, but I barely play online anymore)....if that counts.

[Slaz]

To quote myself from the other thread:
Hi Nick! I'll be a bidder too. Don't expect me to put on astronomical sums of money though!

Wouldn't it be a good idea to sell some stuff individually instead of just one big package? That way more fans will have a chance to own something, and you can create better insight in the actual value of the items.

And as told by several posters here, around $25 for a single piece would be OK with me. And what Shadow said is true, I'm sure there are numerous fans outside this community who'd joyfully spend money on original artwork as well!

[GoldRabbit]

old CD-ROM beta version of the game

Well, that sounds interesting. Would you mind telling us a bit more?

[Stijn]

Probably an OEM version.

[Nickadoo]

FYI, I found another stack of drawings today, so it seems there will be plenty to go around. I snapped a few pics before I stored them away this time (sorry they're so blurry).

http://imgur.com/gallery/4TdwN/new

[Stijn]

:!<!>

[Hare]

The self-destruct button gag is in there! Nice :).

[ShadowGPW]

By god, I want one of those!

Nick, before you sell them. Scan them in please, so we can store them on J2O as an artifact. For our fans this is amazing to see these things going by! For most of us this is our child or teenhood. I know it can be a pain in the butt work, but.. this didn't happen before and it's our last chance.

[Stijn]

Nick, before you sell them. Scan them in please, so we can store them on J2O as an artifact.
This is a great idea, it would be wonderful if we could preserve these somehow for fans before they disappear again in someone's collection.

[Love & Thunder]

I agree.

[Ae]

I am of great interest.

[Violet CLM]

If you don't want to scan all of them, I'd put my vote for the highest priority being the images we haven't seen before, in pixel form or otherwise. :) Here are some known ones I could quickly find URLs for:
<img src="http://www.tachyonlabs.com/sam/jjhq/images/CA2Eva.jpg" />
<img src="http://www.tachyonlabs.com/sam/jjhq/images/CA2Rat.jpg" />
And my JJ2 CD case has three additional images: Jazz swinging on a vine and surprising Spaz on a cliff; Jazz and Eva sitting on a brick wall with hearts; and the Queen throttling Jazz. Then there's... ooh, say!

What about this guy?

[Nickadoo]

If you don't want to scan all of them, I'd put my vote for the highest priority being the images we haven't seen before, in pixel form or otherwise. :) Here are some known ones I could quickly find URLs for:
<img src="http://www.tachyonlabs.com/sam/jjhq/images/CA2Eva.jpg" />
<img src="http://www.tachyonlabs.com/sam/jjhq/images/CA2Rat.jpg" />
And my JJ2 CD case has three additional images: Jazz swinging on a vine and surprising Spaz on a cliff; Jazz and Eva sitting on a brick wall with hearts; and the Queen throttling Jazz. Then there's... ooh, say!

What about this guy?

Ha! I'd forgotten about him. Mystery Bunny was intended to be the queen's head of security at the palace. He was supposed to be a boss, but one with advanced AI and would follow you through the entire level.

It was deemed too difficult to create, and even if we were able to pull it off, it would've been to advanced an enemy for such an early level.

[Nickadoo]

FYI, I just talked to Cliffy, he said he'd be willing to help promote the auction for me. (I only did that to make the auction more legit so you'd all know these are the real deal).

[PT32]

Awesome. Absolutely count me in for this bidding. I agree with everyone else who wants to split it up; you'd make a lot of money selling them together, but I and so many other longtime loyal fans would be let down if only one winner got to feel the nostalgia. This is our little piece of history; I think since this community's survived together, they should get to share this moment together.

Maybe have a 1-sketch-per-person max cap? So that multiple people get to participate, and we don't get scalpers?

[AvalancheMaster]

As I already said in the other thread, count me in! ;0

[Metsys]

Same here, count me in. I'm setting aside about $200 for this. I'd like to help out a fellow artist, plus I wouldn't mind having some original Jazz art. :)

[ThunderPX]

Goddamn, why must I be in the process of starting college and moving at a time like this? :(

[Ninja]

Holy crap. I thought I'd never see anything from all of you guys again. I am very interested in this.

[Black Ninja]

I don't have a ton of money, but yeah, I'd totally bid on original Jazz artwork. I've been gaming for many years, but no series has been as important to my life as Jazz Jackrabbit.

I'd love to have even a small chance of winning an auction for some original art, but you could probably make boatloads more money by letting people outside the forum know about it.

[NovaStar]

seems i visited at a fortunate time

would be interested

[Ice M A N]

Oh wow... I'm glad one of my random J2O visits occurred after this was posted but before the auction(s) is(/are) over. Definitely going to be doing some nostalgia-inspired bidding on these.

[ShadowGPW]

Mr I C E man, so you are still a-live. How rare.

[Slaz]

Ever since Nick showed his face, a whole bunch of oldies are ending their lurking spree! These forums suddenly feel more cozy. :cool:

And hi Ninja and Ice!

[CelL]

Wow, if you're gonna auction these off then count me in, totally. Very cool initiative, and thanks for remembering us!

[Obi1mcd]

I'd also be interested, if I can scrounge some money together. The Medivo gargoyles in particular caught my interest, do you have any other tileset-specific art?

[Nonomu198]

amazing

[Black Ninja]

Holy woah, a lot of oldies are appearing out of thin air in this thread. I thought all you guys were dead!

I just love you all so much ;-;

Nick, not to be a pest, but any thoughts when you might start said auction(s)?

[Paul]

Just have to toss my hat into the ring as well. I'd be bidding. (:

[Tik]

This thread hasn't been replied to in nearly three weeks.. is it not going to happen? I have some money. I would bid feverishly.

Nick, if you put these up for auction as one set, I would bid a reasonably silly amount for them. Putting them up in smaller sets probably isn't worth the hassle if you're busy moving.

I do echo the sentiment that <i>all</i> of the images is too many, though.. if I won, I'd only frame and display a couple favourites. But instead of chucking the rest into a box in the garage, I'd post them to one of the site administrators to let them auction them off one by one (if any were interested) to raise some money and awareness for the site/community. Just an idea, in case Nick only wants to auction them in bulk.

[Paul]

Yup, still quite interested here.

If you need further invective, Nick, know that while I'd probably only want one drawing, I'd readily pay $75 or more for it. This is original art! And, my childhood. (:

[KRSplatinum]

The future of Jazz is in your hands, Nickadoo.

[Primpy]

Yeah... I'd love to see some new artwork too. I mean, a redesign of the main characters... that would be great! :)

Btw, what happened? Did anybody win the auction? :|

[Treylina]

Guys...

He hasn't been on here since September 29th. If the auction started, he'd probably say so. The lack of response isn't because he thinks not enough people are interested, he's probably just busy.

Yes, peoples plans can become overdue. It happens a lot.

[Primpy]

*Sigh* Yeah, I guess you're right.
...
Or maybe he was an imposter? :|

[ShadowGPW]

*Sigh* Yeah, I guess you're right.
...
Or maybe he was an imposter? :|

No.

[Primpy]

Are you sure? :|

[Treylina]

Are you sure? :|

Please... stop with your posts that bring nothing to the table. All they are is a mountain of questions with assumptions from nowhere.

You really think someone would make the effort to fake that hard? Hell, he even posted this: http://imgur.com/gallery/4TdwN/new

Plus, his twitter hasn't been updated since the same date either, which also explains he's been away from the internet for a while.

Congrats for being the "Are we there yet?" person of J2O.

[Love & Thunder]

Treylina, although you're right, that was a bit harsh(Mostly just that last part).

Primpy; if a thread has been dead for a while, you should only revive it if you have something to add. It's okay to do a random necro a couple of times if you're new(Everyone does this when they've just joined a forum), but in most cases other than that(And a few including that if it goes on for a while), necro posts are a bit annoying.

(Although, sometimes necro posts can be pretty funny/entertaining/interesting. It's very situational, but in most cases, it's not a good idea)

[DoubleGJ]

well, he said he's moving, I assume it'd be hard for him to sit on the Internet until he settles down in the new place

[Primpy]

*sigh* Ok, I am sorry. I've seen LOTS of people pretending to benother people, that's why I wish to be informed. Also sorry for necroposting. I just joined the community 2-3 months ago. Yes. I am a newbie here, but I played JJ since I was a kiddo. Never thought of joining a community.

[Hare]

I've actually been curious about what happened to this as well, so I appreciate the necro :P.

Good to know it might be related to Nick's recent move.

[ShadowGPW]

His online accounts (as said before) are pretty much dead. Most likely he is to busy with getting things done there.

[Talec]

Holy woah, a lot of oldies are appearing out of thin air in this thread. I thought all you guys were dead!

I just love you all so much ;-;

Nick, not to be a pest, but any thoughts when you might start said auction(s)
I missed you all, too! <3

I'd love to join in the bidding if it ever happens :3! I also want to say that splitting the pile into single images for the most popular pictures & small lots for thematically similar drawings (Medivo tileset art, enemy sheets, etc) would probably work best!

[VashTheStampede]

FYI, I found another stack of drawings today, so it seems there will be plenty to go around. I snapped a few pics before I stored them away this time (sorry they're so blurry).

http://imgur.com/gallery/4TdwN/new

Yep... I'm in.

If you post, I'll buy one or two.

[Ninja]

Ever since Nick showed his face, a whole bunch of oldies are ending their lurking spree! These forums suddenly feel more cozy. :cool:

And hi Ninja and Ice!

Hi! :D Miss you all. Oh, man. The nostalgia. I totally forgot about smilies like this. :7

[Primpy]

Hi! :D Miss you all. Oh, man. The nostalgia. I totally forgot about smilies like this. :7

I don't know who you are, but I'm glad you're back :|

Am I the only one who's under 18 here?

[Jelly Jam]

Hi! :D Miss you all. Oh, man. The nostalgia. I totally forgot about smilies like this. :7
I think i met you in puke nukem these days, welcome back i guess :)

Also

I don't know who you are, but I'm glad you're back :|

Am I the only one who's under 18 here?

You're not. I'm 15 years old.

[Treylina]

I think i met you in puke nukem these days, welcome back i guess :)


There's a lot of players named Ninja in JJ2. It may have actually been NinjaCC.

[Primpy]

You're not. I'm 15 years old.

Good to know! Most 10-20 years old people play modern games with ultra realistic graphics. :r

[Jelly Jam]

There's a lot of players named Ninja in JJ2. It may have actually been NinjaCC.
Sry for replying to this kinda late, but yeah, it really was ninjacc

[Jazz J.]

Has there been any updates on artwork auction? Did it actually take place or Nick just got busy and forgot about it all?

[Treylina]

Has there been any updates on artwork auction? Did it actually take place or Nick just got busy and forgot about it all?

I was meant to poke him on twitter about it, but got shy and lazy. He's active on there.

[Primpy]

I was meant to poke him on twitter about it, but got shy and lazy. He's active on there.

Is it to late to do so? If not...
http://67.media.tumblr.com/2bc3aa7c35c66aadc6b32dd337e94a97/tumblr_npd34ypYaQ1qje999o1_400.gif
I myself am really shy as well but things are different and much easier on the Internet.

[Jazz J.]

So I've asked Nick about the artwork on twitter and here's what he had to say: Hey, unfortunately due to a terrible ordeal I had gone through during that time, much of the work was destroyed. :-(
There's still a chance that not all of the work is gone, but for a JJ series fan that's very sad news.

[SAMI]

Oh no...

I hope the artwork of the games CD cover is intact. We need a scan of that.

[Jelly Jam]

We need a scan of everything that's left.

Indeed, this is sad news...
I would still bid though if I had some money... I hope those gargoyles are still there.

[Love & Thunder]

Here's a cleaned up version of one the pics Nick uploaded earlier in the thread (http://imgur.com/X57WpJV). I basically just messed with the levels filter in GIMP, and centred it in the image, but I think it looks pretty nice.
I'm trying to do a similar thing to some of the other images, but unfortunately the shakiness makes it hard to isolate the actual art from the shakiness.

[Violet CLM]

That looks pretty good :)

[luke11685]

As matter of fact that Nick Stadler deleted his original Jazz Jackrabbit 2 artworks I made a backup copy.One more thing sorry about bumping this old thread.I just had one reason that I did so. I'll try and I swear not to do the same thing ever again.
https://i.imgur.com/rrpqz6Z.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/8bjgYzb.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/IxmHGrT.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/4z7O6Iu.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/4MJTjnd.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/G3sRl91.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/YoZlHtp.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/hipPrHU.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/XuPMOFq.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/BXgwHfP.jpg

[Love & Thunder]

Some pieces of production artwork were shared a few months ago (which only really became known on the Discord server these past few hours) from backup CDs belonging to someone who worked on Jazz 3; included among this stuff is some scans of artwork Nick Stadler drew for Jazz 2, with files dated October/November 1996.

Since the originals no longer exist, this is the highest quality we'll ever see for most of these. (Unless Nick has higher-res scans elsewhere?)
Here's the lot of them on Imgur, 37 images total: https://imgur.com/a/9ScTl9Q

The highlights include:
https://i.imgur.com/MXH8RxP.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/8msAE31.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/OueFZDR.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/eG1yLm2.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/DmhTSR7.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/qBcSmOn.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/K7Q4vOs.png

[Slaz]

Interesting..

The colored one picturing Jazz & Eva sitting on a wall was seen online long ago in a smaller size. It might’ve been on The Daily Carrot, I don’t remember.

https://i.imgur.com/ovtqqw1.gif

[Sun Fun Dude]

https://i.imgur.com/bOKrX4Q.png

[Love & Thunder]

Nice colourisation. :)

I posted this in an earlier page, but I did once try cleaning up the high-res photo Nickadoo took of that piece. It's way blurrier than the scan, but it is HD.

https://i.imgur.com/FaXRGxT.png

Perhaps some kind of composite image is possible. (I doubt it)

I also tried to clean up a couple of his other pieces, but the results weren't very good, so I gave up and never saved my work. I may try again at some point.
I did keep saved copies of a few of the other images, but I feel like, since Nick deleted them, it would be rude to repost them as-is. Maybe that's silly.

[Karmy]

Cool