IWD chapter intro slides - original artwork?

ineth

IWD has beautiful chapter intro slides.

I'd like to showcase them on the wiki (on the pages for the respective chapters/areas), but unfortunately, the paintings are stored in the game files with the UI (curvy border frame, and box for the scrolling text) already baked in:

• Prologue (Easthaven)
• Chapter 1 (Kuldahar)
• Chapter 2 (Dragon's Eye)
• Chapter 3 (Severed Hand)
• Chapter 4 (Upper Dorn's Deep)
• Chapter 5 (Wyrm's Tooth)
• Chapter 6 (Lower Dorn's Deep)
• Chapter 6b (Easthaven)

I'd like to get my hands on the clean artwork.

The one for the Prologue (Easthaven) is featured on the IWD:EE press page:


The one for Chapter 1 (Kuldahar) is featured in a Beamdog blog post:


But where are the rest?

@JuliusBorisov, does Beamdog have them all and would be willing to post them?
Or has anyone seen them published elsewhere?

Dev6

*bump*

It'd be real nice if we could get these paintings.

ineth

RPGFan has the one for chapter 2 (Dragon's Eye), albeit with logos:

ineth

The GOG.com extras for the original Icewind Dale game include a low-resolution version of the one for Chapter 6 (Lower Dorn's Deep):

ineth

Alright, since it doesn't look like the original artworks for the remaining slides will be found, I've given it a shot to restore them from the available material.

"Restore" means photoshopped together from (a) the UI screen backgrounds stored in the IWD:EE game files, and (b) whatever low-resolution or partial copies of the source art I could find.
The resulting images suffer from graininess/blurriness, loss of details, and slightly wrong colors in some parts, so they're not 100% authentic representations of the lost source art, but should be pretty close.

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Chapter 2 (Dragon's Eye):
Restored from the UI screen background and the aforementioned promo art.


Chapter 3 (Severed Hand):
Restored from the UI screen background, and a low-resolution version of the source art (found at IGN).


Chapter 4 (Upper Dorn's Deep):
Restored from the UI screen background and this GOG.com wallpaper.


Chapter 5 (Wyrm's Tooth):
Restored from the UI screen background.


Chapter "6b" (Frozen Easthaven):
Restored from the UI screen background.


Trivia: The last one isn't actually used in the game.
While the UI background for a Frozen Easthaven chapter intro slide exists in the game files, it is never used. Instead, a video cinematic is shown when the party is teleported from Lower Dorn's Deep to Frozen Easthaven.