The copyright on the first Ermac pic belongs to Ian Naud. I googled him, and discovered that he is actually a CG artist. Here's a website of his work:
http://iannaud.cgsociety.org/gallery/There is also a sketch of Kung Lao on there:
http://features.cgsociety.org/newgallerycr...59912_large.jpgAlso, a personal website that says he is a character artist for Midway:
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/ian-naud/3/306/119If you look at the gallery, the artist has text there. He says these are just sketches he did of his favorite characters after MK vs. DC came out. So according to him, these don't mean anything.
A couple more:
Darkseid vs. Shao KahnBaraka--------
Since this is not "reassembling the once lost", I'm gonna call BS on this site. Some of these were done after the release of the last game, and it's basically just fan art from one of the creators. That's my take.
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[EDIT] Did a little URL hacking on the website, and found these:
MK1 Select Screen musicOutworld music