artwork

Children of the Clone

Lost masterpieces & miscellaneous gems by maestro Jim Guthrie in the key of Sword & Sworcery. Compositions created on a Playstation One using MTV Music Generator 2000 - 2003. A significant inspiration for Superbrothers & the S:S&S EP project. The 64-bit Jim Guthrie portrait in this artwork is by illustrator Steve Courtney, whose portfolio is located right here.

GET THE NEW RECORD at Jim Guthrie's Internet Record Shop.

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new record

Sword & Sworcery LP is joined by the new record Children of the Clone at Jim Guthrie's Internet Record Store.

For more information about these recordings you can read up on S:S&S EP's music.

A Cozy Yuletide 2011

A painting created as the winter solstice loomed in the year 2011 (the year in which S:S&S EP was made available), built upon an S:S&S EP sketch generated in pre-production, published as S:S&S EP was going on sale.

Would you like to download a high res edition of this image as a wallpaper? Click here.

The sale mentioned above occurred at the usual location, that is to say, Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP on the iTunes App Store. The intention behind the sale was to spur sales of S:S&S EP as a gift for friends, family & loved ones.

Sharper & Smoother on iOS 5

An illustration depicting a horned warrior holding a sharpened blade in the style of Robert E. Howard's famed Cimmerian. This warrior is standing beside The Archetype, the smooth-talking cigar-smoking researcher who greets & guides participants through the psychosocial experiment known as Superbrothers:Sword & Sworcery EP. This artwork was put together to mark S:S&S EP's 'sharper & smoother' iOS 5 update in October 2011, and the artwork is available here for folks to use as an iPad or iPhone wallpaper if they so choose.

jim guthrie

Created in late February 2010 to promote a rock show featuring Jim Guthrie & His Litter at the El Mocambo in Toronto on March 26th.

jim guthrie gig poster

Sword & Sworcey LP - The Ballad of the Space Babies

Image created by Superbrothers Inc. for Jim Guthrie's Sword & Sworcery LP - The Ballad of the Space Babies. For details about this music release please go here.

another yuletide

Created for family, friends, teletex readers & internet pals for the yuletide season of the year 2010.

TOUCH

Image captured from the start of Side A from S:S&S EP, released for #screenshotsaturday on Saturday, November 27 2010.

PROCESS WALLPAPER

Far left: rough digital schema created by Mr. Clay Morrow in a free-to-use Lego design tool for the electric computer.

Centre: the original photograph of the Lego sculpture by Mr. Clay Morrow at a research facility in Burbank, Calfornia.

Far right: the same photograph after color correction and post processing at the Superbrothers laboratory in Toronto.

LEGO SCYTHIAN

Lego sculpture constructed, staged & photographed in late March by Clay Morrow & his sons Ever & Levi, Teletex readers from Burbank, California, in late March 2010.

Clay writes:

Having spent countless hours playing with Lego and then later with an NES and its pixels I've always felt a connection between the two! S&S really struck a chord with me and my kids, and it has us revisiting some old videogame systems that I had in storage.

RETRO HD

Left: a sprite of The Scythian from S:S&S EP.

Right: a lego sculpture of The Scythian constructed, posed, lit & photographed by Mr. Clay Morrow and his sons Ever & Levi at a research facility in Burbank, California.

frazetta

"And let me say this: copying someone else is not art."

Created to mark the passing of art legend Frank Frazetta, whose visual interpretations of Robert E. Howard's 'sword and sorcery' stories, created in the mid 60s, redefined the fantasy subgenre and have exerted a tremendous influence since then. To read more about Frazetta, Howard & their relationship to S:S&S EP please feel free to read the article 'ART LEGEND ASCENDS TO VALHALLA'.

gdc yeah you know me

Created to express the S:S&S EP team's naked enthusiasm for GDC 2010.

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exp

Created in January 2010 to communicate the time, date & location of the first showing of S:S&S EP at a Hand Eye Society social unofficially named 'Exp' on February 4th 2010 at Unit Bar, 1198 Queen St. West in Toronto.

yuletide

Originally created as location concept artwork, then re-purposed & distributed to family & friends as a greeting card (as above), now made available for download without 'yuletide' text, in three display resolutions:

first look

Created to accompany the announcement of the S:S&S EP project, now digitally remastered & made available for distribution in three display resolutions: