From Concept To Art
When we start a new project one of the most important things we need to do is make sure everyone is on the same page. And that can be hard to do when you're creating things that exist only in our imaginations. One way is to spend hours talking about and describing the details of the ships and locations in the film to each person, but a much better way is to have our ideas turned into sketches and paintings so everyone can see what we're thinking.
Even before we started working on the details of the story for "The Darkest Matter" we had a few ideas for the space ships and stations that will be in the film. James described the look and feel of the ships to Andrew, our concept artist. I contributed technical details about how the ships would actually work. Andrew, armed with this information, created a couple of pages filled with thumbnail sketches. James and I give him feedback and select a few of the designs to have done in larger sketches. And we continue this process until we have finished paintings of the final designs.
This year we want to get everyone involved in the pre-production process, and not just as observers. So by joining the production you'll get a chance to help us choose between different designs. But we'll have more info on that later, for now enjoy some of Andrew's early artwork for "The Darkest Matter!"
