Former Uncommon artist Brett Jones, who labored on the basic N64 video games GoldenEye 007 and Excellent Darkish, has died.
Jones’ work on the basic first-person shooter was wide-ranging and included idea artwork and character creation, mannequin rigging, animation, and texturing. He would go on to do a lot of the identical work on Excellent Darkish, together with work on the protagonist herself and main efforts on the sport’s memorable motion-captured animation.
As famous by VGC, designer David Doak shared a screenshot of the sport on Twitter together with the unhappy information, calling Jones an “absolute legend”:
GoldenEye professional and champion @Graslu00 additionally shared a tribute on Twitter, recalling when he met Jones in 2022. Doak added to this with a message emphasising Jones’ important affect on each these BAFTA-winning Rareware initiatives:
Within the years since leaving Uncommon, Jones’s resume features a host of spectacular VFX work throughout initiatives together with Dr. Who, Quick & Livid 6, and Guardians of the Galaxy.
“My job is cool!” he wrote on his web site. “I get to work with crazily gifted individuals and add my very own drop of expertise into the combination. Whether or not I’m rigging robots, portray scales on dinosaurs or sculpting a personality in Zbrush there actually is not any higher option to spend a day.”
A Simply Giving marketing campaign to assist fund an exhibition of Jones’ work, which was began earlier than his passing, is at the moment working. The gallery is deliberate to be open for 2 weeks from 4th November in Hinkley, Leicestershire, UK.
Our ideas are with Jones’ family and friends at this troublesome time. From all of us right here at Nintendo Life who’ve spent so many blissful hours having fun with his work – thanks, Brett.
