Mateusz Skutnik has for the development of the Covert Front series and PNCE, used many artwork as a base for his in-game artwork. This page is made to document these links with real images and the artwork used in the series. This page is made up of several sub-sections, one for character design, the intro images of Covert Front 1, Architecture and remade drawings.
Character Design[]
Wilhelm also shows up in PNCE, in a painting on the wall instead of being Manfred. It is based on a real portrait photography of the Kaiser Wilhelm II by Court Photographer T H Voigt of Frankfurt, taken in 1902.
Karl Von Toten's character design is almost copied of an existing General from WW1, Hans Hartwig von Beseler. The main picture in the hallway of the mansion is almost a copy of this picture seen. But it can be seen that the background in the original is different. The one of von Toten has wallpaper in the background while the one of Hans actually has a room behind it. The picture was also reused as a base in the second episode, where von Toten poses for engines of the flying wing.
Like Karl von Toten, Manfred is based on a real person from the great war, Wilhelm II. The picture from 1917 is taken in a garden of Wilhelm, he is in a military outfit. Manfred always has a fur-collar. Although the medals from Wilhelm aren't his too. Wilhelm had a smaller arm on one side, Manfred does not have this condition.
Intro of Covert Front 1[]
One of the first few frames of Covert Front 1, shows a plane that crashed in the intro scene in Covert Front 1. It is based on an original image from the first world war, which was staged by Mrs. Gladys Maud Cockburne-Lange.
A picture of a tank from World War I, which has been redrawn by Skutnik for many of the war intro frames used in the first episode of the Covert Front series.
US Soldiers walking into a gas cloud with gas mask on, takes at January 1st 1917.
Architecture[]
This image compares the Dante Alighieri House in Florance to Hotel Alstadt.
This image compares the Forrest Hill drill hall in Edinburgh to the Library in Zurich.
Remade Drawings[]
The Horten Plane is a new kind of airplane denominated Flying Wing. It appears in all Covert Front Series games. In the game, it is called "Airplane of Unknown Construction" by the Intelligence Agency General Headquarters. It was designed by a unknown character as seen in Movie Reel 2. It was probably designed with the help of the Imagination Realisator. You can see it being developed in the Movie Reel 3. It looks like an airplane in real life. It is called Horten HO-229 and was made by Nazi German at the Second World War to bomb the United States in the project "Amerika Bomber".
This image illustrates the plane used in the Covert Front series, the AGO C II, which Matt used as a template for the plane shown in the series.