#netrunner
‘Project Zurich’ by Jean Giraud (Moebius).
Card art from the 'Netrunner’ collectible card game, released April 1996 by Wizards Of The Coast.
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I really need to do a proper post on Nisei and System Gateway - the new starter set for netrunner, available now HERE!,
Amazing work for Project Nisei by David Lei
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Again, lif is slowing me down, but there’s new stuff, lots of new stuff!
Will be sharing some more (it’s AMAZING!), but for now I’ll let an artist and board member of nisei just say it in their own words:
https://nisei.net/blog/su21-weyland-art-blog/
https://nisei.net/blog/su21-anarch-art-blog/
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Sorry for the silence recently - I just moved house, and have had technical issues, but none of that matters, because today, today is the long-awaited first day of Nisei’s spoiler season - the day we get the first info on new cards of their upcoming products. There’s a schedule information and a short fiction to whet appetites - I know I’m looking forward to it!
https://nisei.net/article/susg01-gateway-opens
https://nisei.net/article/gateway-fiction-starter
And here is the card: Pantograph! A very funky looking console.
This first new-new card I’ve also been able to get a fairly decent full art for - which won’t be the case for most, I’m sure, but I’m so happy to see new cards, new art, and the results of Nisei’s work after a tumultuous year-and-a-bit!
Art by Martin Diego Sadaba (who also provided art during FFG’s tenure)
His sites here,here,here.
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Sadly I’ve only been able to find about half of Chris Newman’s art for netrunner cards, but they’re amazing! Some really sweet looking runs, and some cool (if dubiously effective) ice.
https://www.facebook.com/cnewmanart
https://www.deviantart.com/viviphyd
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Nisei have dropped a new article talking about, and posting, shiny new art!
https://nisei.net/article/su21-weyland-art-blog
It’s always great to see the progress and development of cards and card art, and the article goes into some depth about the production and process.
Kind of weirdly (or maybe not, this isn’t the most active space in the world) I don’t end up talking much about the game. Project Nisei’s 2020 was as bad as it was for everyone else, and their releases were delayed - what was planned for December 2020 is now scheduled as Q1 2021 - this is hardly new for netrunner though. What is new is this art, for System Update, a set of existing cards that will be released as a product - partly for collection and card legality reasons, but mainly (imo) to serve as a follow-on from the All-New* New Player product, System Gateway, aimed specifically at new players. As non-Nisei know next to nothing about that though, System Update with its existing cards is a big thing that’s easier to talk about - and to admire the shiny new art for!
Also posting some other art that has been previewed, for the perennially useful card Project Atlas - as with the above cards, by the excellent Zoe Cohen
*Except for about 5 cards, in a 50+ card set.
Coming to the end (for now) of my collection of Liiga’s art I think (I’ve got some old posts as well as this recent series), but never fear - Liiga’s already produced art for Nisei and I have no doubt she’ll continue to do so.
https://www.instagram.com/liiga_s_art/?hl=en
https://www.artstation.com/liiga
https://www.deviantart.com/liiga
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This one I’m posting on it’s own, because compared to most other art I’m posting, it’s massive. There’s a reason for this, this art was meant to be box art for Creation and Control - I think there was meant to be an especially heavy emphasis on cyberspace, hence the massive city being hit with a tidal wave behind the giant bioroid there, and when the box got retooled and re-focused this big, beautiful art was not used for it - it was used for playmats and later the (sadly underwhelming) card Running Interference
https://www.instagram.com/liiga_s_art/?hl=en
https://www.artstation.com/liiga
https://www.deviantart.com/liiga
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Some more Liiga, I think I might have posted most before, still very good though.
https://www.instagram.com/liiga_s_art/?hl=en
https://www.artstation.com/liiga
https://www.deviantart.com/liiga
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Returning with some of Liiga’s earlier work for Netrunner - the intimidating (if not very strong) Kraken, which definitely has something of Apex about it, the deadly Ichi 2.0, the mighty Battering Ram. Last is the excellent Datasucker, an excellent card done excellently - this version by Liiga is from the Core 2.0 set
https://www.instagram.com/liiga_s_art/?hl=en
https://www.artstation.com/liiga
https://www.deviantart.com/liiga
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Some of the more unusual Liiga cards today, Red Herrings (apparently there’s around 300, and they were very zen to draw), Imp alt-art, the terrifyingLittle Engine (as one excellent flavour review said, sysops get nightmares too), the unfortunately unreleased Plague, and the angel of judgement Veritas
https://www.instagram.com/liiga_s_art/?hl=en
https://www.artstation.com/liiga
https://www.deviantart.com/liiga
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A follow-up to my Team Dog posting of Liiga’s art with one I forgot and two non-Liiga pieces - Watchdog by Sam Guay and Data Hound by Adam S Doyle. The last member of the pack, News Hound, by Darren Waud remains unfortunately elusive to me.
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Wanting to continue with having a consistent theme for at least one more post, so I thought I’d bring together all of Liiga’s bird pieces, despite a couple of reposts - there’s not really a #TeamBird the way there is a Team Dog, but there’s certainly a lot of them, and they’re awesome!
Data Raven, Peregrine, Phoenix, Saker, Owl, Golden, Musaazi, Hadrian’s Wall
I think it’s also telling that there’s still lots more excellent Liiga art to come
https://www.instagram.com/liiga_s_art/?hl=en
https://www.artstation.com/liiga
https://www.deviantart.com/liiga
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Netrunner is not without its memes, and one of the best is “Team Dog” (other cyberspace animals are available, but not as awesome). Today, meet the majority of the members of Team Dog, all by the excellent Liiga - Rex, Cuj0 and Lady, on the runner side, and for corps Fenris, Pup, Lab Dog and last but not least, Komainu
https://www.instagram.com/liiga_s_art/?hl=en
https://www.artstation.com/liiga
https://www.deviantart.com/liiga
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In a ruse to give the impression I’m somewhat organised, over the next week or two I’ll be posting a bunch of LiigaSmilshkalne’sart, trying to work through a kind of backlog - these few are fairly recent finds, from Liiga’s store on InkedGaming
Liiga is one of the key artists for netrunner, with work right from the Core Set up to the current Nisei initiative! She’s even in the community discussions as well! Truly one of the greatest visualisers of cyberspace for netrunner, and an amazing artist to boot.
Peeping Tom, Charlatan, SYNC BRE (Big Red Eye? no-one’s quite sure what it stands for) and the (terrifying, in-game and in-art) Anansi
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Not really a coherent theme today, just sharing things I don’t think I’ve done before (mostly recent finds). Art by Diana Martinez.
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One of the core parts of the Android Universe setting is the New Angeles Space Elevator, commonly known as the Beanstalk* - so central to it that the RPG expansion for playing games of Genesys in the Android Universe is even called “Shadow of the Beanstalk”. The Beanstalk is not an especially unique element, for sci-fi, but it’s a bit rarer to see it in cyberpunk specifically, and it’s very rare that it gets much attention. But the Beanstalk is a big part of the lore of the Android Universe! - in-setting, it’s the raison d'être for the biggest city in the solar system, and the key to space - almost all of the earth-space commerce is down this link, and the biggest component of that is ALL of earth’s Helium-3, aka fusion fuel. It’s also why (and I love that the Android Universe creators did their research here) the city is where it is - a space elevator needs to be as close to the equator as possible. And thus we get our cyberpunk megacity not in the north American sprawl, or east Asia (though both exist), but in Ecuador - it doesn’t always show, but it’s an interesting difference. Also, it leads to some very cool cards, and some cool card art - what I’m all about. Nisei have really made some beautiful cards in particular, the flip side of Earth Station is amazing.
*Slightly incongruous name came from when it was being built - critics and crew working on it both called Jack Weyland’s project “Jack’s Beanstalk”, implying it was a flight of fancy - and also because it’s really tall and goes up into the clouds. The name stuck, and the wealth it produces lines up with the idea of there being gold at the top of the ‘stalk.
Beanstalk Royalties by Johnathan Lee, The Root by Alex Kim, Shadow of the Beanstalk cover by Viko Menezes, Cayambe Grid/Earth Station and Earth Station by Kira L. Nguyen, and New Angeles board game cover by KirstenZirngibl
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Don’t know if I’d shared this one (an older card)
Interns, by Flo Minowa http://www.flominowa.com/ - one of the few arts I haven’t found personally, this was copied from the excellent https://www.instagram.com/netrunnerart/ (who does what I do, but better)
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The three Original Core set consoles (don’t think I’ve posted these before):
Grimoir by Jonathan Lee
Toolbox by Michael Hamlett
Desperado by Outland Entertainment LLC
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Every time, I say I should post more (I do have more to post, honest!) and every time I end up taking another break.
Some more of EmilioRodriguez ‘s work - two for FFG, one for NISEI: ACME, Azmari, and the Syndicate
Just going to repost this with an addition, rather than make a whole separate post for one new pic - even if it is one of my favourite IDs in the game!
I wonder (hope) if this is going to be a trend of uploading older art every now and then
https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/emkun/
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