THE TERMINATOR
BOARD GAME
A fully licensed, fully-funded kickstarter project celebrating all the great scenes and lore from the original movie “The Terminator”. I acted as Art Director on this project. I oversaw all illustration teams as well as the kickstarter campaign look and feel. I also helped designed the 3d renders for the collector’s coin as well as the unique terminator dice and chess pieces.
Color Palettes
The Terminator was a very moody film as far as color. Since there are two time periods to consider (1984 and 2029) I had to keep that in mind for cards or game board areas that pertained specifically to those backdrops. Illustrators had to limit there color palettes often where applicable. Surprisingly, both time periods celebrated pink and blue neon extremes.
New Creations
The biggest challenge is to create new imagery that feels like it's still part of the Terminator taxonomy, while at the same time, offering new concepts to the fans. For both artwork and game pieces, we introduced new characters and vehicles that strictly adhere to the franchise but also offer something fresh and new. These sketches show proof of concept.
Character Cards
Character Stat Cards continue to grow and be developed as we augment to new game play mechanics. Some actors we have license to recreate, some we don't. The process is ongoing to create a large catalog of characters.
Metal Dice
Because licensing had to be super specific to just the first Terminator movie, I sold the idea of a metal dice (as an add-on item to the game) by showing the licensing team that I only pulled designs from the actual T-800 Terminator. After creating a mockup for the dice, I let a professional do the job of fine tuning and creating a working file that could be sent to manufacturers.
Birth of a Vehicle
The game required a new vehicle alongside the HK-Aerial and HK-Tank. The general idea was to create a much smaller drone aerial device that Skynet could send out in swarms (no bigger than a soccer ball but very deadly). I created several pages of mood boards with details and height requirements for the game piece and then handed off to the 3D modeling team. Once approved, the HK Stinger was illustrated onto a stat card.
Terminator Token Figures
Here are just five of the many game figures created for The Terminator board game. Some versions of these became exclusives at Comicons. I created the mood boards for these figures and guided the artists through to approval process with licensors. Toby O'Hara created five out of the six below while Imagi Studios created the "Kyle Reese" bust (far right). These figures were over 54MM in height.
