Traditional Art?

Gamer gives his on the merits of traditional art in the interface:

One of the things that made BG1/ 2 and IWD better than planescape I thought was the traditional art used. ie, instead of just computer modeling everything, there were paintings and drawings. What will NWN be like? From the screen shots Ive seen there doesnt seem to be much of an interface there, just some outlines and a little pop up menu. Is that what it will look like on release?

The interface in NWN is very “minimalist”. We deliberately went for a very lean Gui. Our goal is to leave as much screen real estate open for gameplay as possible while presenting all the required data

The game will feature a number of hand drawn stills for module starts and endings and a huge variety of hand painted user portraits. All the Inventory items are also hand painted with matching 3D models in-game.

Trent Oster