>>5141241>Also, how could you tell some art was made during that time despite there being no specific stylecRPGs were extremely heavy handed with paintovers/“heavy referencing” since the IE era, and NWN does the same, half the portraits have the the body of one and head of another photo bashed together and painted over, having the face sitting on a different plane than the frontal plate of the head. I’m assuming this is because IE fans did this en mass to make new portraits since those games had an extremely thriving scene, then they decided they want to work on cRPGs and carried the workflow over.
The reason it’s so striking compared to current bashing (I think) is that them being amateurs and the internet no being quite what it is today, they usually used literal supermodel and hollywood star pro photoshoots for female portraits, everything in NWN screams supermodel.
