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🗓️ 17 March 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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In this podcast, I sit down with Art Director Ovidio Cartagena to talk about the art direction of Phyrexia: All Will Be One.
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0:00.0 | I'm not pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for the drive to work at home edition. |
0:06.0 | So today I have a video, Cartagena, who did the art direction, Phorexia. All Will Be One. And we're going to talk all about art direction today. |
0:15.0 | Hey, a video. |
0:17.0 | Hey, what's up, Mark? |
0:19.0 | Okay, so this is all about |
0:22.6 | for XI, All Will B-One. So let's start from the very beginning, |
0:25.3 | which is you find out you're going to be doing |
0:28.1 | for X-A-L-L-L-L-B-1, the art direction of it. |
0:30.7 | What are the big challenges? |
0:32.5 | Like, what are the things you're most starting, |
0:35.1 | at the very beginning, that you most are concerned about? |
0:42.7 | So, yeah, most starting at the very beginning that you most are concerned about um so yeah when i found out it was it was interesting i didn't have a lot of time to mentally get ready for it and it was pretty |
0:49.7 | exciting too at the same time um some of the first cards I played were Forexians, way back when. |
0:58.0 | And I immediately felt the pressure to honor that, |
1:06.0 | honor those play experiences that I had, |
1:10.0 | the legacy of Forexians and how they feel. |
1:17.5 | It was for me a lot about the storytelling and about their progress and the revolution |
1:23.2 | and how that could play out back in how that, sorry, how that could play out forward to now, |
1:35.5 | how they've been, what they've been up to and what that might look like from a vantage point of inside the world, in world, but also to match the world we're in now. |
1:53.4 | And of course, to match my artistic influences and this stuff that has informed my work for years and also the um the ideas |
2:06.7 | that have been swimming around in the world in the last few months at that point yeah just so the |
2:14.3 | audience understands the phrexins are actually our oldest enemy. |
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