Celal Kandemiroglu was a
graphic artist
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in the
German computer games
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industry. He was born in 1953 in
Turkey and made his first comic when he was five years old. After graduating at the fine arts academy in
Istanbul he started to offer his comics to the Bastei-Verlag in Germany around 1978. Since 1985 he has created many video and movie covers until he became a cover artist for the German computer game industry in 1988. He died in 2022.
Celal created more than 800 illustrations between 1982 and 2000, some of them more detailed, others done in a rush. Besides that, he created the in-game graphics for many games.
List of games
* Battle Stations (1990),
Magic Bytes
* Dragonflight (1990),
Thalion Software
* Legend of Faerghail (1990),
reLINE Software
* M.U.D.S. (1990),
Rainbow Arts
*
X-Out (1990), Rainbow Arts
* Masterblazer (1991),
LucasArts
*
Fate: Gates of Dawn (1991), reLINE Software
* Monster Business (1991),
Eclipse Software Design
*
The Patrician
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* Patrician (post-Roman Europe), the governing elites of cities in parts of medieval ...
(1992),
ASCARON Entertainment GmbH
* Der Planer (1994),
Greenwood Entertainment Green wood is unseasoned wood.
Greenwood or Green wood may also refer to:
People
* Greenwood (surname)
Settlements
Australia
* Greenwood, Queensland, a locality in the Toowoomba Region
* Greenwood, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth
...
*
Mad News (1994),
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* Menateus (1995),
Siemens Nixdorf
* Biing!: Sex, Intrigue and Scalpels (1995),
Magic Bytes
* Elisabeth I. (1995),
Ascon
* Emergency: Fighters for Life (1998),
TopWare Interactive
* Zeus (1998),
Blissware Entertainment
* Panzer Elite (1999),
Psygnosis Limited
*
Sacred (2004),
Take-Two Interactive
* Sacred Plus (2004),
KOCH Media UK Ltd.
* Soeldner: Secret Wars (2004),
JoWooD Productions Software AG
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List of famous cover paintings
* (1988) Axxiom / Micro Partner - Spinworld
* (1988) EAS - Zero Gravity
* (1988) Rainbow Arts - Volleyball Simulator
* (1988) Time Warp / Rainbow Arts - Detector
* (1989) Magic Bytes - Air Supply
* (1989) Factor 5 - Denaris aka Katakis
* (1989) Rainbow Arts - Rock'N'Roll
* (1989) Rainbow Arts - Spherical
* (1989) Rainbow Arts - X-Out
* (1989) Rainbow Arts / TimeWarp - Berlin 1948 - East vs. West
* (1989) reLINE Software - Dyter-07
* (1989) Starbyte - Tie Break
* (1990) Magic Bytes - Big Business
* (1990) Magic Bytes / Micro Partner - Domination
* (1990) Play Byte / Psygnosis - Atomino
* (1990) Rainbow Arts -
Turrican
* (1990) Rainbow Arts - M.U.D.S.
* (1990) Rainbow Arts - Masterblazer
* (1990) Rainbow Arts - Z-Out
* (1990) Rainbow Arts / Amiga Artists - Startrash
* (1990) reLINE - Legend of Faerghail
* (1990) Starbyte - Crime Time
* (1990) Thalion - Dragonflight
* (1990) Thalion / Eclipse - Wings of Death
* (1991) Eclipse -
Lethal Xcess
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* (1991) Eclipse -
Monster Business
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Plot
The Mad Meanies, a group of mutated monsters, have invaded constructi ...
* (1991) Rainbow Arts - Turrican II
* (1991) reLINE Software - Fate: Gates of Dawn
* (1992) Eclipse - Stoneage
* (1992) Thalion - No Second Prize
* (1993) Rainbow Arts - Turrican 3
* (1995) reline / Magic Bytes - Biing!
* (1999) Wings Simulation - Panzer Elite
* (2004) Take-Two Interactive - Sacred
* (2004) Wings Simulation - Soeldner (Secret Wars)
External links
Temple of CelalInterview with Celal Kandemiroglu
1953 births
Living people
German people of Turkish descent
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