Celal Kandemiroglu
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Celal Kandemiroglu is perhaps one of the most important graphics artists of the German computer games 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 created lots of video and movie covers until he became the major cover artist for the German computer game industry in 1988.
Celal created more than 800 illustrations between 1982 and 2000, some of them more detailed others are done in a rush. Besides that he worked on many games and also did the in-game graphics.
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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 (1992), ASCARON Entertainment GmbH
- Der Planer (1994), Greenwood Entertainment
- Menateus (1995), Siemens Nixdorf
- Biing!: Sex, Intrigue and Scalpels (1995), Magic Bytes
- Elisabeth I. (1995), Ascon
- Emergency: Fighters for Life (1998), TopWare Interactive
- Panzer Elite (1999), Psygnosis Limited
- Sacred (2004), Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.
- Sacred Plus (2004), KOCH Media UK Ltd.
- Soeldner: Secret Wars (2004), JoWooD Productions Software AG
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 - Sperical
- (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
- (1991) Eclipse - Monster Business
- (1991) Rainbow Arts - Turrican II
- (1991) reLINE Software - Fate: Gates of Dawn
- (1992) Eclipse - Stoneage
- (1992) Thalion - No Second Prize
- (1993) Rainbow Arts - Turrican III
- (1995) reline / Magic Bytes - Biing!
- (1999) Wings Simulation - Panzer Elite
- (2004) Take Two - Sacred
- (2004) Wings Simulation - Soeldner (Secret Wars)
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