Corridor Concept 3

I'd not heard from Emmett Hagen and the guys at Sun Gate Films since May when they were looking for new studio space for their SF Film. I had an e-mail off Emmet earlier saying that production on this project has now shut down.
They are working on a non SF related picture at the moment but don't think it's likely that they'll get back into production on their SF production. Emmet said they have sold a large number of the props etc... that were already made to a prop rental house to recoup some of the money that had been spent.
From the designs I'd done they've kindly returned the rights back to me so I can do what I want with the stuff I did for them.
The corridor design here was one of the early ones I did which was rejected for being a bit to large and not really what they were after, it wasn't a finished mesh and the render wasn't done at the highest quality, but I thought I'd post it anyway. There were a couple of other bits and pieces that I'd done or started that I'll post up here when ever I have the time.
I wish Emmett all the best in his other project.

Spacecraft - Work in progress

This is the front section of another craft I've started recently for the SF production that Emmett is on with in Germany, they've had a recent set back in production as they're having to find new studio space to build their sets. This model has been put on hold for the moment while I work on the SF project for the guys over in New York.
I should be able to post some renders of the new project I'm working on later in the week,I won't be able to post pics of the whole ship but they're going to allow me to post detailed area's.

Transport Ship pt 3 - Work in Progress

It looks like the top ship here has been rejected, so I've submitted another design, see pic below, and they're happier with that one. Emmett says the top ship looks a little too ominous for what they want and they think the bottom transport ship looks more manned than the top ship. I suppose it because my top ship doesn't have windows and could be automated. Anyway I'm going to try and finish the top ship for myself one day and plod on with the 2nd ship.

Transport Ship pt 2 - Work in Progress

This ship has gone from being a background vehicle to mid ground, back to background and now I don't know where it's going to end up. Anyway this is where it's up to at the moment. From what Emmett has told me it would seem that a lot of the main ships will probably end up as actual miniatures, even though like me one of their other concept artists is designing the ships in CG. Background vehicles will end up being CG, or at this moment that's what I've been told. This project should have a final title within the next few weeks. Anyway this ship is a Transport craft, I posted the nose section of this a month or so ago. I've still got lots of detail to add to the top and I'm awaiting decisions on colours and logo's etc... for this craft.

Transport Ship - Work in Progress

Just started this as part of a background vehicle for the SF Film that Emmett Hagen and all the guys over at Sun Gate Films are in the process of doing pre-production on. This is the nose section of a transport ship.

Corridor Concept work

Ok now I know this doesn't look much like a corridor yet, Hazel over at Sun Gate Films who's in charge of set decoration has started raiding shops like IKEA for objects to help dress the spacecraft interiors etc... She's sent me a selection of stills of things she's already bought in bulk, the aim being that I can recreate these objects in CG so when I'm doing my work I can incorporate these into the designs. Above is one of the objects that I've built which is a lid off a storage box 13 x 9 inches. I'm planning on adding these to the final corridor design and some of the other sets that are being built for the spaceship interior, they'll make great panel details.
The picture of the lid I've rendered for fun in Blue Plastic like the actual box but once on the set these will be all sprayed the uniform cream/light brown colour like my previous concept work.

IKEA was used heavily by the set builders on Babylon 5 for set decoration, they do have some very interesting light fittings. Also on her travels Hazel has uncovered some boxes in storage near the Bavaria Film studios which she says has set dressing used on the 1985 film Enemy Mine directed by Wolfgang Peterson. I mentioned to her that Galaxy of Terror had what appeared to be some sort of food storage cartons on the walls of the spaceship, the orange detail at head height, from what I heard these were from McDonalds, they don't look too bad on the set, also these sets have a similar feel to those of the LV-426 Colony in Aliens, funnily Aliens director James Cameron was a Unit Director and FX man on Galaxy of Terror.

Wikipedia says: Most of the sets of the science fiction series Babylon 5 contained IKEA components. One reason for this was to reduce the cost of set construction; Babylon 5's producers were proud of always filming episodes on time and under budget.

Outpost - Concept

Here are two renders of an Outpost design I did for Emmett at Sun Gate Films. This was just a first pass at this and like the corridor is going through a number of revisions. This is a little too Star Wars for me and have a few ideas on how the next version will look. Built in Max 7 and rendered in Vue.

Corridor Concept 2

Here's a 2nd pass at a corridor design, see post lower down page, there's still some alterations that I've discussed, but on the whole they want to go for a clean looking corridor like this as opposed to a gritty/dirty type of texture. I prefer the lights on this one more.

Corridor Concept

Here's a concept that I've done for Emmett Hagen over at Sun Gate Films. Emmett is in the early stages of producing a low budget SF movie and asked me to submit some ideas. He asked that this corridor design echo the feel of the Star Wars Rebel Blockade Runner, and the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century style sets. I did this corridor yesterday evening as an example. Emmett has suggested some changes to this version, which considering this was just a few hours worth of work I was to expect. I've been given permission to post my concept up here on my Blog.
Cheers to Marty for sending Emmett my way.