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We (Project Umbrella) have been sitting on these for almost two years now. The original plan was to release them exclusively on the redesigned PU website, but we don't have a designer.

We came into contact with freelance concept artist Satoshi Nakai, who was hired by CAPCOM in 1997 at the recommendation of Nextech Co., Ltd to provide concept art for the games under the directions of scenario company FLAGSHIP's lead writers Noboru Sugimura and Hiroshi Soda.

Only a very small fraction of this artwork has been released by CAPCOM over the years. They are direct scans of the original pages. Also included is a single artwork for a scrapped game originally directed by Masaaki Yamada, featuring HUNK on a cruise ship facing against new plant/human Zombie enemies.

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As a side-note, if anyone would like to help create the new Project Umbrella website or simply get involved in the site in general, drop me a message.

 

[Shauni]

I need to replay Zero and CV. I don't remember half of the stuff in here.

 

[bryanee]

lmao @ the Steve design. You'll know it when you see it.

 

[Aostia]

I need to replay Zero and CV. I don't remember half of the stuff in here.

probably two of my favourite RE games.
I loved my Dreamcast and my GC also because of those games.

 

[LUXURY]

If Jill was the star of Code Veronica...

Anyway, these are really neat to see. The k you for sharing.

 

[Galdius]

I need to finish RE0. I played it when I was younger but there was a part that I didn't knew what to do and so I stopped playing. Maybe I begin playing it again this year and then finally finish it.

 

[Kuraudo]

CV had some beautiful monsters. Always really liked the designs of the bandersnatches and Nosferatu. It also has the best looking Tyrant.

 

[Davey Cakes]

I need to replay Zero and CV. I don't remember half of the stuff in here.

I finished Zero but need to do the same with CV.

 

[Gamester]

WTF?!

 

[Alpha_eX]

I can see why these weren't released, horrifying!

 

[Baraka in the White House]

Zombie chicken fuck yeah.

 

[Dusk Golem]

I'm not surprised there were so many scrapped enemies from Zero. A shame since many of the scrapped enemies, while following the 'giant animal' trend in Zero, are more interesting.

 

[MattXIII]

whoa, those late 90's/early 2000's digital painting techniques...

 

[Despera]

Holy shit it's zombie Didier Drogba!

 

[Badlucktroll]

RE 0 will be done as a remaster soon enough i bet. Its not really that good though.

 

[ubersticky]

THANK YOU JESUS FOR NEVER GIVING US THAT JILL OMFG IT'S ATROCIOUS

 

[TheJollyCorner]

Awesome.

Thanks for this, News Bot!

 

[joe2187]

lmao @ the Steve design. You'll know it when you see it.

STEAVE!

 

[V_Arnold]

This cant be real.

Edit: Lol, great minds think alike!

 

[badcrumble]

This cant be real.



Edit: Lol, great minds think alike!

steave is the realist thing ive ever seen

 

[Shauni]

The zombie chicken...man, I wish that wouldn't have been scrapped. I need to know how that would have looked and been implemented in the game. I need to know.

 

[joe2187]

This is a pretty amazing design

and this one too

 

[StevieWhite]

Changing my name to "SteavieWhite"

 

[Rymuth]

Even back then, they wanted to turn Jill blonde.

 

[joe2187]

Hey Newsbot, Any idea what this image represents on the XMB for RECVX on PSN.

 

[BasilZero]

Those are horrifying especially the character faces and lol @ Steave

The monster and zombie designs look good.

 

[Manu]

Thank you based News Bot.

 

[Sub_Level]

DNA Arranged Lack of Intelligence

lol

 

[Herbspiceguy]

Awesome. Would love to see an art book of 1, 2, 3 and Code Veronica.

 

[adamsapple]

Hey Newsbot, Any idea what this image represents on the XMB for RECVX on PSN.

Claire's boot and Alexia's silhouette ? ;p

 

[betweenthewheels]

 

[King Boo]

interesting, cv originally had jill as main character
chameleon-man would have been cool to fight
containment zombie reminds me of those poison monsters in dark souls 2
steve looks like the brother of a final fantasy character
conductor zombie looks really cool
lol zombie chicken

 

[bananafactory]

this thread lol

 

[Dragon1893]

Thanks for sharing. Love both games, can't wait for 0 to hit steam and hopefully CV will follow eventually.

 

[Jawmuncher]

STEAVE!

We've had a street fighter crossover with RE all along.

 

[Teknoman]

Awaits indie game based on this guy.


The faces of those other characters, especially the normal humans...wow. Kinda off putting.

 

[Xaero Gravity]

That Tyrant cawk cannot be unseen.

 

[Mellahan]

Daaaang this is sweet.

The first piece, is that from the scrapped BIO3 with the plant-zombie enemies?

 

[Sevket-Erhat]

Thanks for sharing

 

[Orochinagis]

Alexia nipples got censored, what a surprise

 

[Mr_Zombie]

Thanks for sharing.

Artworks of monsters look great.
Artworks of human characters, especially protagonists and STARS members, mostly look very amateurish. And those early designs for Jill, Steve, Billy and Annie. :|

 

[Xaero Gravity]

Is that a giant vagina? O____O

 

[brandonh83]

Steave. You'll only slow him deawn.

 

[Übermatik]

Could you kick up the, er, 4D3D3D3?

 

[Werewolf Jones]

Why is so much of this concept art ugly?

LMAO @ the Zero protagonist concepts.

 

[rtcn63]

I never realized until now how much Alexia Ashford's human-tyrant form resembles Kuja from FFIX.

 

[soultron]

Awesome work! I loved STEAVE.

Really great seeing some of their processes and how some changed over the course of shipping the games.

 

[Jimnymebob]

So Jill looks a tad abstract in those pictures.

 

[Akibared]

This is really awesome!

 

[halfbeast]

So Jill looks a tad abstract in those pictures.

it's the new anime style...