Wil Overton

Wil Overton is a British artist, specialising in manga styles.^[1]

Will Overton
Movement	Manga

Career

He has worked for a number of notable British video games magazines, including Super Play^[2] and N64 Magazine. He then worked at Rare and was an illustrator for NGamer magazine. After Overton drew the Perfect Dark cover for N64 Magazine at the time of the game's release, the manga-styled Joanna Dark design impressed Rare, and he was hired by the company as a result; the original cell-shaded designs for Perfect Dark Zero were based on this design, but later changed to more realistic graphics.

Since leaving Rare, Overton has been a freelance artist. He will provide art for the instruction manual of the Playtonic Games title, Yooka-Laylee.^[3]

See also

• Matt Bielby, video-game magazine editor
• Julian Rignall, video-game magazine publisher
• Helen McCarthy, Anime book author

External links

• Official website of Wil Overton

References

1. Lent, John A. (2001). Animation in Asia and the Pacific. Indiana University Press. p. 76. ISBN 0-253-34035-7. Retrieved 13 May 2011. Wil Overton.
2. Simon Armstrong (5 September 2019). "Sonic, Street Fighter and the 'golden age' of gaming magazines". BBC News Online.
3. Seedhouse, Alex (10 June 2015). "Will Overton to Illustrate Yooka-Laylee's "retro themed game Manuel"". Nintendo Insider. Archived from the original on 22 June 2015.