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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#1027: March of the Machine with Taylor Ingvarsson

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

Duels Of The Planeswalkers, Games, Magic The Gathering, Leisure, Game Design, Mtg, Ccg, Mark Rosewater

4.8743 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

I sit down with March of the Machine's Lead Art Director Taylor Ingvarsson to talk about the visual identity of the set.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm not pulling in my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for their drive-to-work at home edition.

0:07.0

So today I have Taylor Inverson, who was the art director for March of the Machine, and we're going to talk all about the art direction of March of the Machine.

0:15.0

So hey, Taylor.

0:16.0

Hey, Mark, how's it going?

0:18.0

Okay, so let's talk a little bit about the scope of this set is huge.

0:25.3

How exactly do you approach a set that's everything we've ever done everywhere?

0:30.4

Yeah, no, the task was pretty daunting.

0:34.8

I think even at one point, somebody in the office was like, are we biting off more than we could chew on this one?

0:42.1

I don't know. I think we got it.

0:45.4

But it's been a really interesting process for this project, in particular for me, because this was one of the first sort of like big arc things that were sort of

0:56.5

presented to the studio just like super high level this is kind of generally where we want

1:04.4

to go and where we want this finale or we want this finale to happen of brexia invading the

1:10.2

entire multiverse.

1:11.3

I think that was in my first year at Wizards.

1:15.1

And at that point, I was like, oh, that sounds so cool.

1:18.5

Bananas.

1:19.1

Whoever gets to work on that is super lucky.

1:21.3

And then fast forward, it's like, you get a work on this.

1:24.0

It's like, oh my gosh, it was very exciting.

1:26.2

But also a pretty on this. It was like, oh my gosh, it was very exciting, but also also a pretty

1:27.7

tall order. So how we approached this set was really trying to narrow down what planes we wanted to

1:40.0

focus on and what planes we kind of wanted to have in the periphery during the card set.

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