Video game his༒torians have reason to celebrate today, as the first-ever drawing of Mortal Ko🌌mbat's iconic dragon symbol has been shared publicly for the first time.
Mortal Kombat co-creator John🌸 Tobias shared the image alongside some fascinating insights into its creation and the ♚series itself. Tobias says he designed the symbol as a way to represent both Mortal Kombat and the in-game fictional tournament players take part in when they play.
Here’s a recently ♊disꦡcovered image of the very first drawing of #MortalKombat’s dragon icon. I designed the icon as both a symbol of our game and its fictional tournament… (thread) #MK30 pic.twitter.com/vVIDr4K9aP
As if it isn't cool enough se✤eing the very first sketch of Mortal Kombat's now famous dragon symbol, Tobias also shared some neat details about its conception. For example, he revealed that John Vogel, another one of the key developers behind the original Mortal Kombat, recorded a video of Tobias's drawing and used it to digitize the image into something that could be used in the game. The image above is a screenshot of that video recording.
Tobias also said that the reason the official Mortal Kombat icon is a dragon is because the title 'Dragon Attack' was being considered before the one we all know and love. 'Dragon Attack' is the nam🐭e of a Queen song loved by Mortal Kombat co-creator Ed Boon, so that's where that came from.
The ac🦂tual design of the dragon was inspired by a golden statue that sat on the desk of Midway ge🍸neral designer Ken Fedesna, which Vogel took and turned into a model for the game.
The inspiratio𓃲n for the dragꦛon icon’s design started when John Vogel saw a golden dragon statue on the desk of Midway’s general manager, Ken Fedesna. John borrowed it to digitize for use in our game’s backgrounds. Here’s a frame from that footage… (5/9) pic.twitter.com/QTOQ3q6YLx
Tobias noticed the statue in the game ꦆand was inspired to design an🐎 Asian-themed arcade cabinet with a version of the dragon on the sides. "I used the dragon from my cabinet side panel sketch to inform the look of the dragon icon as our symbol," Tobias said.
You'llꦫ defin✅itely want to peruse the to hear the complete story from Tobias himself, which includes a hilarious tidbit involving a family member of his confusing his original dragon sketch for a drawing of a seahorse.
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