He's a very technical monster.

togovero

That deserves a "holy shit"!.

I wonder how long the actual time used is. I'm sure it took a long time, but it just looks awesome.

They could auction that off easily i bet

Capp

Oh em gee. Alex Ross is amazing. Seeing this is amazing. Now I feel amazing. Always loved his work. So amazing.

OddOne

I'm a big fan of Alex Ross's work and this is obviously no exception.

Hauler

wow, that's some serious talent, very impressive.

cracker_vizzo

@Earthslide: Not true, there are freaking AWESOME fatalities in the game.

benderbendingrodriguez

Impressive.

yashichi8bit

Awesome stuff. I heard no fatalities in the game. True?

Earthslide

Oi

benderbendingrodriguez

@taftsearlobe33: Yes , Yes he is. Really nice man in person as well.

휘성

Alex ross is a god.

taftsearlobe33

@Earthslide: There are fatalities, but the gore content is incredibly tame for a Mortal Kombat game.

+ Watch video

+ Watch video

dry-roasted-peanuts

@taftsearlobe33: I felt that way after checking out Kingdom Come. I urge anyone who isn't familiar with Ross to check it out. Easily one of the best graphic novels ever.

ThickSkinned

I was on the border of should I get this and should I not, and this has just taken me. Consider me SOLD

infestedDemon

Sweet, a poster of this should be the pre-order bonus. Eidos gave away a really nice Alex Ross poster for pre-ordering Justice League Heroes and I reserved it just to get the poster(game was actually kinda fun too).

fearing

I am drawn to Alex Ross.

You can kill me later.

Ping5000

epic

icko

Anyone know where I can get this as a poster? Anyone selling high-quality prints or such?

DukeOfPwn

Agreed w/ pretty much everyone here, lol. Ross's work is always gorgeous to look at.

DragonSphere

Alex Ross is a comic book legend. Seeing the making of one of his works was amazing. Ross and Alan Moore should do a collaboration someday.

KeroseneClimax

Alex Ross is the most talented comic book artist... no, artist period - on the planet! If anyone can draw as good as Ross I have yet to see it. Plus his comic books are just brilliant!

Connobi

@ThickSkinned: Only problem is that he won't draw any DC character who's not Silver Age. They got him to draw Wally in Justice by not telling him it was Wally.

hitokirimaru

*sigh* why do I have the feeling that the cover is going to be better than the game....

Tom Clancy's Samuraidino

@dry-roasted-peanuts: I love that Joker clip. I hadn't seen it before.

skrame ☆

I wish I could own a original art from him. Great stuff

trailingedge

@KeroseneClimax: Impossible.Considering the amount of time Ross' art needs and the extense of details Moore likes to put in his scripts... That'd be the graphic novel that never got finished.

Poison

Away from the fact that I, as so many others, love Ross' art: did anyone notice the blurred out Wonder Woman pic around 2:25? And why was the coloring skipped so much? That's the most interesting part!

Poison

Beautiful artwork indeed, and a lot of effort and skill in it as well.

Just a shame that the game, I expect, will be pretty damn terrible.

sanzen

Why is this not the actual cover to the game?

Dummies.

ZeeBeeEss

holy crap that was awesome.

chaos_isnt_here

Ross is one of my favourite artist all time along with Jim Lee HTK, Kevin Llywellin, and Shawn Barber.

Shachihoko

Uh, let me be the dissonant voice. Do ya?
I think Alex Ross art style is kinda (unconfortable) similar to that Mormon magazine illustrations...
You know, happy white people sitting in the grass playing with childrens and feasting with delight.
The glow effect, the "photographic prettyness"...

I just dont dig the guy style...

Joe Satriani plays some guitar really well, bot not for me, also...Do you know what I mean?

My 2 cents, please dont hate me.

victor-hvgo borges

Alex Ross is amazing! I bought his Mythology book he released. Really impressive stuff. I need to start painting in gouache.

ShizzleBeef

@Earthslide: Nice try, troll.

HT Tenrai

@HT Tenrai: Look who's talking! In your face! ass.

Earthslide

If only they put this much effort into making a real Mortal Kombat game. If they made a rated M Collectors edition, I would buy it but a Rated T Mortal Kombat? That's like a Street Fighter game without Ryu.

y2julio

As nice as this cover art is, it's for a MK game. And given MK's track record, that's like using a $100 bill to wrap a piece of shit.

banana_ridah

Some of his original works go for like 25,000 dollars!
its amazing.

siamgx

@Connobi:

Frank Frazetta is still alive, heathen.

Koztah

Technical wise, he is very good. I actually prefer Steve McNiven's line work. And I pretty much grew up on Spider-man, so I really like Mark Bagley's artwork. While not as realistic as Ross, it's every bit as good.

lv1shinobi

As much as I love Alex Ross' paints, I really miss his pencil work...

He does a great job no matter what the subject, though.

GrrSnort

@trailingedge: My friend studied with his teacher at the chicago academy of art, and the teacher had a huge collection of Alex Ross' paintings and stuff that he had worked on as a student.

ハリセンボン

That is actually some beautiful cover art. Really blends perfectly. I can stare at thar for hours in awww.

shrek187

@Tom Clancy's Samuraidino:

Your psychic now? quick give me next weeks lotto numbers.

Really though it all looks good so far.

VenomMelendez

@dry-roasted-peanuts:

Look fine.

If anything it makes them look more realistic unlike MK's usual slapstic death's.

VenomMelendez

This artwork is as awesome as the PSM covers Joe Madureira did way back when MK4 was released; Neat stuff, Alex Ross is really talented...

Daisuash

Yeah, that pic of Wonder Woman is prolly blurred because it's someone in his family. Ross generally uses family members as models to get the pose down.

SafiaTaygete

First off, what's wrong with Photoshop? Is it more "authentic" to create art on a wooden frame wrapped in fabric? Is this like those people who won't listen to music on anything other than vinyl because they insist "the soul of the music" is lost when you listen to it on CD?

And second @Connobi: You need to expose yourself to more than comicbooks before you go around making silly statements like that. Alex Ross isn't a "comicbook artist". He's more of a classic artist who's just slumming it. He "draws" like a first year art student but because he's not talented enough to make it as an actual honest to gawdness artist, he's settled for a life of mediocrity...drawing picture books.

lucifer_goosifer

@VenomMelendez: It's Mortal Kombat. Realism has no place in the franchise.

dry-roasted-peanuts

@lucifer_goosifer:
@lucifer_goosifer: Photoshop's digital art, so the amount of control you have over what's done is far greater than that of non-digital artwork. You can set things like effects, or copy-pasting people into a lineup and have the main amount of the work done by a computer rather than relying on any actual artistic skill of the person designing the cover art. Also- digital artwork can be duplicated since it's basically just stored data, whereas non-digital media is unique in its design and thus is more valuable overall. It still takes talent to make good art with photoshop, but it takes more to make it without it. The way that you talk about him "drawing picture books like a first year art student" makes it seem like you should have some artistic knowledge, but it's apparent that you don't, making your opinion rather moot. Comic Book Art is a particular style. Just because his chosen medium isn't the extreme realism, or abstract interpritations of a so-called "actual honest to gawdness artist" doesn't make it any less impressive.

TrilbyGabsta