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Storyboards and Concept art

Storyboards

Rayman 2 is a videogame with lots of animations that required storyboards. Here are some of the storyboards used for the development:

This first storyboard is from the final animation at Menhir Hills.

This second storyboard is from the original new game scene. There are some significant differences, like the boat and cell dessigns.

This third storyboard is from The Crow's Nest beginning scene. It has a sign in the bottom-right corner.

This fourth storyboard is from the Menhir Hills scene with Clark. Dialogues from this storyboard were very short.

Concept Art

During the development of the game, some concept arts were made by the development team. Some of them were included (and left unused) in the vignette.cnt file (see here). Others were made public on the internet:

In the last concept art, we can see the early dessign of Globox.

Very early in development

At this point of the development the game didn't had any HUD yet. Water effects doesn't exist, and only a few levels are shown, beeing incomplete and very different from final. Only some later pictures have lums, which had a different design with a big shinning circle and very small wings, including the violet lums that had no rings.

The woods of Light

A platform was between the two sides of the river. This platform would made posible to get the other side without using yet the helicopter.

The Sanctuary of Water and Ice

Some curved walls were at the two sides of the sliding track instead of pillars.
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The Menhir Hills

Menhirs appeared from the electric triangle also seen in The Prision Ship instead of a Menhir house. In this screenshot an early violet lum without ring can be seen.

Whale bay

As can be seen in the screenshots, the water part of this level was unfinished. Water has a dull color, and there weren't any water effects.
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In the last part of the level, the pirate boat sail was coloured red.

The Iron Mountains

It seems that Ly was meant to appear in this level for some unknown reason.

It seems that the Menhir part of this level was planned to be in a flying menhir instead of the final menhir that runs on the walls.

Video

At the time this video was made, lums were not developed yet. Rayman fist had a different dessign that doesn't bounce at the walls which can defeat robo-pirates with only one hit. Robo-pirates attacked with cannon balls. In this video we can see the test level (with the three mushrooms), a very early Sanctuary of Water and Ice, and some more indistinguishable beta/test levels.

Early in development

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This screenshot was made during the development of the early HUD. The circular leaf still has nothing inside

At this point of development, cages had only a grilled side, been the rest plain metal (This cage design is however used in the final HUD)

At this point of development, an early HUD was made, with an early charset still present (unused) in the final game. Rayman face expression was changed with an eye more open than the other, this change was reverted in the final version. Two prerelease videos were made from this development point. A cutted test level is also noticeable.

Test level

The test level can be seen in some prerelease videos and screenshots. It uses textures from the first levels and it has water, a plum, a black snake, and two mushrooms of different sizes (There were three in the early video).