2021年7月12日
封绘重塑：若昂
Box Art Reimagining: João
本月，我们邀请了四位才华横溢的社区艺术家，请他们重新创作《古墓丽影：黑暗天使》那充满暗夜色调的封绘。
We’ve lined up four talented community artists this month to reimagine Angel of Darkness’ moody box art.
今天我们要介绍的是若昂，他的推特账号是乔·科雷亚（Jho_correa）。他认为，劳拉在巴黎的探险是哥特式的，黑暗却使人沉醉。
Today we are featuring João, but you may know him as Jho_correa on twitter, whose take on Lara’s Parisian adventure is delightfully dark and gothic.
《古墓丽影》粉丝、社区会员若昂重新创作的《古墓丽影：黑暗天使》封绘的完整版
The full version of Tomb Raider fan and community member João's reimagined take on the Angel of Darkness box art
下面，若昂将会与大家分享他与《古墓丽影》系列的绵长往事，并对启发他本次创作的其他电子游戏的艺术风格进行了分析。
Below, João shares his long history with the series and breaks down the other video game art styles that inspired his reimagining:
我叫若昂，来自巴西，是一名平面设计师。我从事平面设计已经超过10年了，插图创作一直是我的一大爱好。早在2008年，因为“古墓丽影论坛”上的一个“《古墓丽影：地下世界》粉丝艺术作品”的主题帖子，我开始创作数字艺术和设计。我的一切自此开始，我也因此得以从设计学院毕业，并使之成为我从事的职业。为25周年纪念创作这件作品对我来说是一种荣誉。我实在是太高兴了，这个过程让我有种世间万物周而复始的感觉。这感觉就像做梦一样。从上世纪90年代末起，我就是一个古墓丽影迷，我非常热爱《古墓丽影》系列，它已经与我融为一体。而且因为《古墓丽影》，我学到了很多知识，也认识了很多人。我至今都为电子游戏竟能如此改变我的人生而感到惊讶。现在我已经正式参与了官方25周年庆祝活动，我感到很开心。谢谢你们邀请我！
My name is João. I’m a graphic designer from Brazil. I’ve been doing graphic design for over 10 years now and illustration has always been a great passion of mine. I started creating digital art and designs back in 2008 because of the ‘Tomb Raider Underworld fan artwork’ thread on Tomb Raider Forums. That’s where it all started for me, and I was able to graduate design school and make my living off of it. Doing this piece for the 25thanniversary it’s an honor to me. I feel like everything came full circle and I couldn’t be happier. It feels like a dream. I have been a Tomb Raider fan since the late 90s and this franchise is something I am so passionate about that it became part of who I am. I learned so much and met so many people because of it. I’m still amazed at how life changing a videogame can be and I am happy to be now officially part of the 25th celebration. Thank you for having me!
毋庸赘言，若昂对《古墓丽影》系列的热爱在这幅作品和他本人的故事中溢于言表。他能同意与我们合作真的使我们非常高兴！我们最喜欢这个重新创作系列活动之处，就在于不同艺术家表现出的风格千变万化，每件作品背后的故事回味无穷。接下来，我们请若昂畅谈他创作的灵感，他有很多话想与大家分享！
Needless to say, João's love for the franchise shines through in both this piece and his story and we're really happy he agreed to work with us! The thing we love about this reimagining series the most is how diverse different artists styles can get and how each piece has a story behind it. We asked João about his own inspiration and he had much to share!
在这件作品里，我想重点关注游戏所呈现出的哥特式美学。我并没有完全另起炉灶，而是决定回归原版封绘触动我心弦的地方。
So for this piece I wanted to focus on the gothic aesthetic present in the game. Instead of doing something completely new, I decided to go back to what made the original cover so striking to me.
标志性的蓝色火焰，劳拉背后敞开的铁门，底部的欧洲景观，劳拉站在这样的画面中央，她的英姿极具冲击力。我深受内克罗（Nekro，西班牙80后插画师、数字艺术家）、比尔·埃利斯（Billy Bogiatzoglous，又名Billelis，英国数字艺术家）和基利安·英格（Kilian Eng，瑞典插画师）的艺术作品启发。我还从其他电子游戏中获得灵感，如《血源诅咒》《恶魔城》和《渎神》，我想方设法让这些灵感得以展现出来。我喜欢用他们的美学元素来制作游戏周边。两侧巴洛克风格的雕刻都在述说着自己的故事。在左侧，我们看到埃卡德特（Eckhardt）被真理之光组织（Lux Veritatis）封禁，而在右侧，我们看到一种使用黑魔法来复活的仪式。他在飞升！他走出囚禁的深渊，走进了21世纪。这位黑炼金术士就活在当今的世界里。在底部，我尝试使用代表绝望和混乱的雕塑。劳拉正跨越在这些雕塑之上，这代表着她为自己正名、让一切重回正轨的旅程（并在这个过程中拔掉她的“肉中刺”，不知道我这样理解对不对？）。沾满鲜血的双手代表了……一种选择。我不确定用鲜血涂满她的标志性双枪是不是一个好主意，但我还是决定这样做，因为这会为整个故事增添一笔色彩。创作这件作品绝对是一件乐事！在我目前的作品中，这是我最喜欢的作品之一，我打心底希望所有人都和我一样喜欢这件作品。
The iconic blue fire, the iron gates opening behind her, the European panorama at the bottom and Lara’s striking figure standing ever so heroic right in the middle of the scene. I was heavily inspired by the arts of Nekro, Bill Elis and Kilian Eng. I also took inspiration from other videogames such as Bloodborne, Castlevania and Blasphemous, and I made sure to make these inspirations obvious. I love make game cross-overs using their aesthetic elements. The baroque-like carvings on the sides are supposed to tell a story. On the left side we have Eckhardt being banned by the Lux Veritatis, while on the right we have a sort of resurrection through the dark arts. He is ascending! Out of the depths of his imprisonment, into the 21st century. The black alchemist lives in a world of today. At the bottom I tried to use sculptures that represent despair and chaos. Having Lara almost walking over it, it’s supposed to represent her journey to clean her name and put things right (and remove the thorn in her side in the process, am I right?). The blood covered hands were...A choice. I was unsure if it was a good idea to cover her iconic duals in blood, but decided to go for it anyway because it adds to the whole story. It was an absolute joy to work on this! Turned out to be one of my favorite pieces I have ever done, and I hope from the bottom of my heart that everyone else enjoys it just as much as I do.
本月在我们四位庆祝《古墓丽影：黑暗天使》的社区艺术家中，若昂是第二位。现在让我们来看看卡莱布·格罗韦斯（Caleb Groves）独特的、风格化的封绘。点击此处链接下载不同版本的若昂作品！
João is the second of four community artists we are featuring this month to celebrate Angel of Darkness. Now check out Caleb Groves’ unique, stylized take on the box art. You can download different version's of João's piece, here!
——原文网址：https://tombraider25.square-enix-games.com/en-us/traod/blog/reimagining-joao/
