Check Out Helen Garriott’s Original Cover Art for Ultima 3
Yesterday, Richard Garriott teased every Twitter-bound Ultima fan with this remark:
@Koalaman108 I am cleaning up a scan of my mother's original Ultima III cover we did not use, when we instead had @Denis_Loubet remake it.
— Richard Garriott (@RichardGarriott) November 19, 2015
Today, he made good on the promise:
Behold! Original Ultima III cover, created by my mother/art director. I opted to have @Denis_Loubet rework as seen. pic.twitter.com/7jPVf2amI0
— Richard Garriott (@RichardGarriott) November 20, 2015
If you click on the cropped image above, you’ll get to see the image in as large a resolution as I was able to pull off of Twitter. This piece was composed by Helen Garriott, who has been a source of significant artistic inspiration and guidance for her son Richard over the years. As you can see, the final Denis Loubet-created box art draws on a number of elements from Mrs. Garriott’s original work, though the Loubet piece obviously has a darker tone to it overall.
And just for the record, Koalaman108 and everyone else can find a number of cleaned-up, high-resolution scans of box art from Origin Systems’ games right here.
