Check out After Earth concept art by Jason Dunn!

Jason Dunn is a professional concept artist and matte painter who's worked on Hollywood films like Cloud Atlas (2012) and television shows like No Ordinary Family (2011) and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008). He just released some concept art on his blog of futuristic technology, weaponry, and FX sequences for the film.

Check out the rest of the pictures after the jump (click to enlarge).

All quotes are from his blog.

"We designed a 'wormhole' effect, with the idea that the ship itself remains still relative to the viewer, but space in front it gets compressed into a singular point, and then expanded back to full size behind the ship, propelling it forward. Entire galaxies get crunched into the size of a pinhead, pass through the ship, and then explode to their original size in its wake." - Jason Dunn

"The weapon of choice in this future is something like a transforming Swiss army knife;  an expandable, double-edged staff which can reconfigure itself for different functions, including a blade, a taser prod, and a water purifier. It is made of some kind of living fiber which can change size and shape on command." - Jason Dunn

"For a probe design, we experimented with different types of exotic biotechnology, which could be economically grown on demand and infused with robotic implants." - Jason Dunn

"These sketches explored the various nuts-and-bolts of the sensory equipment. " - Jason Dunn

"And some otherworldly plant life." - Jason Dunn

See more of Jason Dunn's work at http://www.robotrumpus.com

Click on the links if you want to see more of Jason Dunn's work and After Earth concept art on my blog.

What do you think of the illustrations? Did you see After Earth and what did you think? 

Official After Earth Synopsis
One thousand years after cataclysmic events forced humanity's escape from Earth, Nova Prime has become mankind's new home. Legendary General Cypher Raige (Will Smith) returns from an extended tour of duty to his estranged family, ready to be a father to his 13-year-old son, Kitai (Jaden Smith). When an asteroid storm damages Cypher and Kitai's craft, they crash-land on a now unfamiliar and dangerous Earth. As his father lies dying in the cockpit, Kitai must trek across the hostile terrain to recover their rescue beacon. His whole life, Kitai has wanted nothing more than to be a soldier like his father. Today, he gets his chance.

Directed by M. Night Shyamalan
Starring Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Isabelle Fuhrman, and Zoë Kravitz

Official Site: http://www.afterearth.com, https://www.facebook.com/AfterEarth

© Copyright 2013 Columbia Pictures, Overbrook Entertainment, Blinding Edge Pictures

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Concept art for After Earthhas shown up online by Colie Wertz and Emmanuel Shui sent me some illustrations for the movie. The movie has been critically panned and Rotten Tomatoes gives it a rating of 12%.

But it's still a beautiful film.

Emmanuel Shiu is a professional concept artist and matte painter working in the entertainment industry that has designed for big budget films like Sin City (2005), The Perfect Storm (2000) and Superman Returns (2006).

Colie Wertz is a professional Hollywood concept artist who's worked on Iron Man (2008), Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) and Transformers (2007). He helped design a variety of props and vehicles including the Nomad flotilla ships, hovercraft and frigate.

Check out the illustrations after the jump and click to enlarge.


Emmanuel Shiu

Colie Wertz

See more of the work of the artists Colie Wertz at coliewertz.com and Emmanuel Shiu at eshiu.com

Via Comic Book Movie (Nailbiter111) Concept Art World

Official Synopsis
One thousand years after cataclysmic events forced humanity's escape from Earth, Nova Prime has become mankind's new home. Legendary General Cypher Raige (Will Smith) returns from an extended tour of duty to his estranged family, ready to be a father to his 13-year-old son, Kitai (Jaden Smith). When an asteroid storm damages Cypher and Kitai's craft, they crash-land on a now unfamiliar and dangerous Earth. As his father lies dying in the cockpit, Kitai must trek across the hostile terrain to recover their rescue beacon. His whole life, Kitai has wanted nothing more than to be a soldier like his father. Today, he gets his chance.

Directed by M. Night Shyamalan
Starring Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Isabelle Fuhrman, and Zoë Kravitz

Official Site: http://www.afterearth.com, https://www.facebook.com/AfterEarth

© Copyright 2013 Columbia Pictures, Overbrook Entertainment, Blinding Edge Pictures

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M. Night Shyamalan posted some concept art for his upcoming film After Earth. Actually, he just posted some images that had concept art in the background. I guess, if you're starved for concept art, this works.

His concept artist is Dean Sheriff, who also worked on three of the X-Men films (X2, X-Men United and X-Men Origins: Wolverine) and Watchmen.

Shyamalan captioned both of these via his website and Twitter to explain.

This is Dean [Sheriff], an amazing illustrator. He’s illustrating an early scene from the film. (I’ve picked tantalizingly vague pictures haven’t I?)

These are paintings and photos I’ve collected over the year. They are up on the inspiration wall in the art department of After Earth.

Details about the plot are few, but one description gives some details:

M. Night Shyamalan is directing the pic, which had previously been titled 1000 A.E. The story is set in a future in which humans no longer live on Earth after it becomes inhospitable. The elder Smith is playing a hero, while Jaden is his son, considered a failure as a warrior. When the two crash-land on Earth, it's up to the son to save the dad. - Hollywood Reporter

Check out Dean Sheriff's site at http://www.deansherriff.com

Via: /Film

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