Rare Rayman Pictures

[Haruka]

I saw those ones quite a while ago. I saw it on tumblr and then in a really long video interview sort of thing with Michel Ancel. I can't exactly remember it but it was in French. I actually considered posting them here but I figured they had already been seen by then.

I want that video interview now! I swear I never saw those images before, the interview must be really obscure for only now those pictures surface publically.

EDIT: Nevermind, just found it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol-XANkhvTQ

I'll reupload in my channel, we must not miss these pictures.

[spiraldoor]

Can someone translate this, or at least the parts where Ancel is talking about the original game? That's where we're most likely to find new information. He mentions Frédéric Houde at one point!

And look at this!

[Master]

I'm compelled to wonder how we missed this one, it's been out since January!

[Haruka]

Probably because it was disguised in an interview just focused in Michel Ancel. I wasn't expecting to see new Rayman 1 concept arts to emerge though, but they are obviously very well welcomed!

[Master]

Either ways, I guess we owe Dragon for letting us know of this interview.

[Haruka]

Which I give out a thanks by the way. I think this can serve as an advice for future posts but it is never a bad idea to post here pictures you find even if you aren't sure if they are known. We have seen plenty of them, its true, but it doesn't mean that we saw everything!

[Master]

Hm, true, though it does feel at times like we've exhausted the lot, stuff like this is a pleasant surprise indeed.

Now, for translation, think we could beg ask Droolie to help out?

[Droolie]

Hehe I finished listening to it and there doesn't seem to be anything we don't know about. Ancel just mentions Frédéric Houde as a really good coder, who was already working on console games at the time and whom he worked with for Rayman 1. They created a prototype for SNES together and sadly, that's all he says about the whole thing.

As for Rayman 2, I learned that Jacques Exertier did the art for Rayman 2 and then he (along with most of the R2 team) moved on to make BG&E (Jacques Exertier did the story!). It's likely that he's one of the big factors of what made those games so awesome!

It's also quite hilarious how he says they worked together on Rayman 3. The Rayman 3 team had to work on a different site than the BG&E team, so they decided to use webcams to communicate with Ancel and other team members to "work together well". In the end, they, as he says, "argued well". The R3 team showed them animations and other stuff and they ended up screaming at each other that it was horrible, over the webcam.

EDIT -> Lol, I just realized I have already seen this in the past. Here's the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy0kJPQ60n8
As I translated before, the final RRR is actually mostly the result of a rushed presentation for a journalist of Nintendo Magazine. Because they had presented a minigame collection so they would appear to be using the Wii controls to their full extent, they had to go with the minigame idea instead of the platformer. And that's how it happened!

Also, the bit in the beginning with his 2 sisters was funny.

[Squiz]

I have interesting informations for you guys !

In France, a book called "L'histoire de Rayman", which can be translated by "The story of Rayman", will be released in June. We don't have specific release date yet, but I asked the author himself, Michael Guarné, and he answered me that the official release date should be announced soon, next month.



And what should interest you the most is the description of this book, given by many websites where you can find it for pre-order. I translated it :

"This comprehensive overview explores all facets of the saga: the birth of each episode, various characters and worlds, game mechanics, etc. With rare content and interviews with the creators."

"RARE CONTENT"

Do you know what I mean ? I'm pretty sure we will get some interesting visual stuff in this book.

[Cairnie]

I see it's by Pix'n'Love and they even seem to list it on Amazon UK even though it's French...

Very nice find though, we'll all have to keep tabs on it.

[Master]

So this is essentially going to be the "Hyrule Historia" of the Rayman series? Oh dear...as happy as I'd be at some attempt to make sense of the continuity of Rayman, I am a bit apprehensive as to the potential extent of conflicts and changes that'd be needed on the wiki.

Still, can't put down something that could very well be awesome just because it'd complicate a few things, eh? Pity I have no knowledge of French, if anyone does get it, PLEASE scan it!

[Cairnie]

Here's the Amazon UK entry, despite it saying it's unavailable:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lhistoire-Rayma ... %A9+rayman

On the French Amazon it's up for preorder for €28:
http://www.amazon.fr/Lhistoire-Rayman-M ... +de+rayman

Personally I would have it as it is but I'm not sure if I should just in case they end up making an English one, like they did with the Sonic history book PixN Love made.

[sonicbrawler182]

If there is one thing we can take from this, it's that Rayman won't be going on another huge hiatus anytime soon.

[Squiz]

So this is essentially going to be the "Hyrule Historia" of the Rayman series? Oh dear...as happy as I'd be at some attempt to make sense of the continuity of Rayman, I am a bit apprehensive as to the potential extent of conflicts and changes that'd be needed on the wiki.

Still, can't put down something that could very well be awesome just because it'd complicate a few things, eh? Pity I have no knowledge of French, if anyone does get it, PLEASE scan it!

I'm French, and I'll buy it first day it comes out. I will scan it for the english community, no problem. ^^

[spiraldoor]

So this is essentially going to be the "Hyrule Historia" of the Rayman series? Oh dear...as happy as I'd be at some attempt to make sense of the continuity of Rayman, I am a bit apprehensive as to the potential extent of conflicts and changes that'd be needed on the wiki.

Still, can't put down something that could very well be awesome just because it'd complicate a few things, eh? Pity I have no knowledge of French, if anyone does get it, PLEASE scan it!

I would be very surprised if he made any attempt to establish a fictional timeline or explore the continuity between the games. He can talk about the worlds and characters, sure, but that's just documentation. Any connections between the stories (beyond the ones we already know about) would be fabrication. This doesn't look like that sort of book.

[Haruka]

I have interesting informations for you guys !

In France, a book called "L'histoire de Rayman", which can be translated by "The story of Rayman", will be released in June. We don't have specific release date yet, but I asked the author himself, Michael Guarné, and he answered me that the official release date should be announced soon, next month.



And what should interest you the most is the description of this book, given by many websites where you can find it for pre-order. I translated it :

"This comprehensive overview explores all facets of the saga: the birth of each episode, various characters and worlds, game mechanics, etc. With rare content and interviews with the creators."

"RARE CONTENT"

Do you know what I mean ? I'm pretty sure we will get some interesting visual stuff in this book.

Oooh, interesting! I start to feel tempted to get it, even if it is in French!

[OCG]

Buying it 100%

[Clara Knight]

I have interesting informations for you guys !

In France, a book called "L'histoire de Rayman", which can be translated by "The story of Rayman", will be released in June. We don't have specific release date yet, but I asked the author himself, Michael Guarné, and he answered me that the official release date should be announced soon, next month.



And what should interest you the most is the description of this book, given by many websites where you can find it for pre-order. I translated it :

"This comprehensive overview explores all facets of the saga: the birth of each episode, various characters and worlds, game mechanics, etc. With rare content and interviews with the creators."

"RARE CONTENT"

Do you know what I mean ? I'm pretty sure we will get some interesting visual stuff in this book.

Oh my god I'm shaking.

Because in the Twitch event I've asked if they were thinking in publishing a book like this in the future.

Michel Ancel replied me "not yet, but this would be a nice idea".

And here it is. ...Oh my GOD.

...I'm definitly getting it.

[Sorry for poping back into the community from all of sudden, but I really wanted to comment about this.]

[Master]

Ah, hey Clara! It has been a while indeed, how've you been?

[PluMGMK]

Clara!

Also I'll buy it, French or no French!