Harmonix Senior Artist Kevin McGinnis spoke last week at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) about the user interface in the Beatles: Rock Band.  Based on what he talked about, it wasn’t something that came together easily.  From Joystiq:

McGinnis talked about the different concepts the team had tried — they first attempted to do a very clean, serene respectful version of the menus, but then decided to go much more colorful. They hired a few artists to build the menus up into actual 3D spaces (after accidentally telling Apple Corps that yes, the menus would all be animated), and McGinnis even showed off the 3D model that the camera zooms around in to guide the player into the game.

Head on over to Joystiq to take a trip through a huge gallery (60+) of images from the user interface design discussion.

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