While exploring Tim Flattery's updated website I came across some newly uploaded concept art for films he's worked on that hasn't been seen before. I decided to share some and tell you to check his site for the rest.

Check after the jump for some pulse-pounding concept art from The Incredible Hulk (2008) showing his fight with Blonsky and some moody illustrations from Daredevil (2003) showing Fisk's office and an alternate grappling hook cane. Click on the images to enlarge.

First, the Hulk illustrations

Now some amazing Daredevil art

As a teaser, here is an early designs for X-Men. Notice Wolverine's hands are bleeding from his claws. Nice touch.

There's lots more to see of Tim Flattery's portfolio at http://www.timflattery.com/

Make sure you read my exclusive interview with Tim Flattery and I've updated my post on his Fantastic Four concept art with new illustrations.

Wikipedia Description
Daredevil is a 2003 American superhero film written and directed by Mark Steven Johnson. Based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, the film stars Ben Affleck as Matt Murdock, a blind lawyer who fights for justice in the courtroom and out of the courtroom as the masked vigilante Daredevil. Jennifer Garner plays his love interest Elektra Natchios; Colin Farrell plays the merciless assassin Bullseye; David Keith plays Jack "The Devil" Murdock, a washed up fighter who is Matt's father; and Michael Clarke Duncan plays Wilson Fisk, also known as the crime lord Kingpin.

Directed by    Mark Steven Johnson
Produced by Avi Arad, Gary Foster,Arnon Milchan
Screenplay by    Mark Steven Johnson
Based on    Daredevil by
Stan Lee
Bill Everett
Starring    Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, Michael Clarke Duncan, Colin Farrell
Cinematography    Ericson Core
@ Copyright 2003, Regency Enterprises, Marvel Films, Horseshoe Bay Productions, 20th Century Fox

Wikipedia description
The Incredible Hulk is a 2008 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character the Hulk. It is directed by Louis Leterrier and stars Edward Norton as Dr. Bruce Banner. It is the second film to be released in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. This film establishes a new backstory where Banner becomes the Hulk as an unwitting pawn in a military scheme to reinvigorate the supersoldier program through gamma radiation. On the run, he attempts to cure himself of the Hulk before he is captured by General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross (William Hurt), but his worst fears are realized when power-hungry soldier Emil Blonsky (Tim Roth) becomes a similar but more bestial creature. Liv Tyler also stars as Betty Ross, Banner's love interest and General Ross' daughter.

Directed by Louis Leterrier
Produced by Avi Arad, Gale Anne Hurd, Kevin Feige
Screenplay by    Zak Penn, Edward Norton

Story by Zak Penn
Starring Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth, William Hurt, Tim Blake Nelson, Ty BurrellCinematography Peter Menzies Jr.

@Copyright 2008 Marvel Studios, Valhalla Motion Pictures, Universal Studios


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Last week some images for the new Syfy series Defiance were released and I decided to share some concept art for the series.

Defiance is an upcoming science fiction television series by Rockne S. O'Bannon. The series is being produced along with a Defiance MMO video game by Trion Worlds. Defiance is about Grant Bowler (Jeb Nolan), the local lawman in an alien Votan refugee camp known as "Defiance" on top of the ruins of present-day St. Louis.

Check after the jump for more concept art along with descriptions from the Facebook page.

"Inside the NeedWant: Whether your night is winding down or just getting started, Defiance's favorite local bar has everything you need - and everything you want." Kenya Rosewater (Mia Kirshner).

"Doc Yewell's Office: Not your typical doctor's office. Then again, Doc Yewell (Trenna Keating) isn’t your typical doctor."

"Lawkeeper: Nobody ever said establishing law and order in Defiance would be glamorous."

"Acting as a both living transport and ultimate threat, the Hellbug Hellion is a monstrous behemoth with an insatiable appetite for gulanite."

"You may recognize this guy from recent demos. He's calls himself a 99er and works the mines in Marin. What do you think it would take for you to bring him down?"

"The grand Golden Gate Bridge has defied the cataclysmic force of terraforming and the destructive powers of an era of war to still stand as the primary span into the wasteland of San Francisco."

"Of all the Votan races to have immigrated to Earth, the Irathients have adapted best, using their affinity with nature and tribal warfare tactics to thrive in the most dangerous frontiers of Earth."

"The Votanis Collective's highly destructive SRL (Spread Rocket Launcher) design has been reproduced by frontier manufacturers for sale to all."

"Refurbished ships have become the primary trade lifeline to many coastal frontier towns and are prized targets for hordes of Raiders."

Overland

Tanker Crew

Raiders

Hypersleep Chamber

Potech Docks

Official Synopsis:
From Syfy and Trion Worlds comes a revolution in entertainment: Powerful scripted drama and a massive online world, united for the very first time. Set on a transformed Earth in the near future, events in the show will impact the game, and players will impact the show, creating an unprecedented immersive experience.
WATCH THE SHOW, PLAY THE GAME, CHANGE THE WORLD
Defiance is set to premiere Monday, April 15, 2013 at 9:00 p.m. Eastern/8:00 p.m. Central.

Defiance stars Grant Bowler (Ugly Betty, Liz & Dick), Julie Benz (Dexter, No Ordinary Family), Stephanie Leonidas (MirrorMask, Crusade In Jeans), Tony Curran (Gladiator, The Pillars of the Earth), Jaime Murray (Warehouse 13, Hustle), Graham Greene (Dances With Wolves) and Mia Kirshner (The L Word, The Vampire Diaries). The series is executive produced by Kevin Murphy (Desperate Housewives, Caprica; Hellcats) & Michael Taylor (Battlestar Galactica). Kevin Murphy serves as showrunner. Scott Stewart (Legion, Priest) directed the pilot; Michael Nankin will serve as director/producer on the series.

Official Site: http://www.defiance.com/

Trailer:


Images Via io9 CinemaBlend fpsgeneral

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Total Film has a couple of concept art images and you can see them here along with some drawings from Guillermo del Toro's notebook for the film.The first two images are by professional concept artist Doug Williams and the rest are from director Guillermo del Toro who always does detailed sketches when developing his films.

"You can see two of those exclusive pieces by Doug Williams right here. The first puts the overwhelming scale of the Jaegers [giant robots] into perspective, as a Russian collosus ("Cherno Alpha") stands guard, dominating the skyline. The second features a freaky Skull Temple that’s fused with its derelict urban surroundings."

Pacific Rim (2013) Russian Jaeger "Cherno Alpha" concept art by Doug Williams

 Check out the rest of the art after the jump and click on the images to enlarge.

Pacific Rim (2013) "Skull Temple" concept art by Doug Williams

Flixster managed to get some images from the Legendary Pictures panel at the New York Comic Convention in 2012. For the design of the monsters, del Toro said "he initially got a bunch of artists he liked in a room to sketch and design anything they wanted. Eventually he clamped down on the creative freedom and had two major stipulations: the monsters needed to look like they could be real creatures, and that the artist couldn't be too referential to existing monsters." He eventually settled on approximately 9 types of kaiju (monsters) and 6 or 7 Jaegers (robots).

Here are del Toro's explanations of the drawings in the online discussion.

"Not Jaegers- GAS MASKS for Black Market Kaiju scavangers. A scavanger walking away with two cuticles on his back."

"Mako in a rain of Ashes as a kid."

"The bones of a fallen kaiju"

"Mako in her military garb in the rain (short haircut)."

See more of Doug Williams work at http://dougblot.blogspot.com/.

Official Synopsis
"When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity's resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: massive robots, called Jaegers, which are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural bridge. But even the Jaegers are proving nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless Kaiju. On the verge of defeat, the forces defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes--a washed up former pilot (Charlie Hunnam) and an untested trainee (Rinko Kikuchi)--who are teamed to drive a legendary but seemingly obsolete Jaeger from the past. Together, they stand as mankind's last hope against the mounting apocalypse."


Official Site: http://www.pacificrimmovie.com
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Production Designer:
Cast: Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day, Ron Perlman, Robert Kazinsky, Max Martini, Clifton Collins, Jr., Burn Gorman, Larry Joe Campbell, Brad William Henke, Diego Klattenhoff
Cinematography by Guillermo Navarro
Production Design by Andrew Neskoromny, Carol Spier

Release date: July 11, 2013
(Via io9)
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See some designs by IainMcCaig that show what young Han Solo would have looked like in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. Iain McCaig is an illustrator, storybhoard artist and conceptual designer. He was involved in the Star Wars film projects as well as John Carter of Mars.

Check them out after the jump and click on the images to enlarge.


Some concept art has been swirling around recently. It's not new or anything, but what makes it exciting is it ties into the news of Star Wars spin-off films.  It first appeared in the excellent concept art book Art of Star Wars III (Star Wars Episode III) from 2005.

The story goes that Lucas wrote early drafts of the script in which a 10-year-old Han Solo appears on Kashyyyk, Chewbacca's home planet, but the role was not cast or shot.

Here's the clip from the script:

HAN SOLO
I found part of a transmitter droid near the east bay… I think it’s still sending and receiving signals.

YODA
Good. Good. Track this we can back to the source. Find General Grievous, we might…

McCaig said, “It’s not in the script anymore, but we were told that Han Solo was on Kashyyyk and that he was being raised by Chewbacca. He’s such a persnickety guy later on – he always has to have the best of everything – so I thought it’d be great if when he was a kid, he was an absolute slob.”

Thankfully, it got cut. I can think of 100,000 things wrong with this idea, but the biggest one is implying that Chewbacca was Solo's surrogate father. It changes the whole relationship.

You can see more of Iain McCaig's work at www.iainmccaig.com and iainmccaig.blogspot.com and on my Filmsketchr Concept Art blog.

Wikipedia Description
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith is a 2005 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas. It is the sixth film released in the Star Wars saga and the third in terms of the series' chronology.

The film takes place three years after the onset of the Clone Wars. The Jedi Knights are spread out across the galaxy leading a massive clone army in the war against the Separatists. The Jedi Council dispatches Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi to eliminate the evil General Grievous, leader of the Separatist Army. Meanwhile, Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, separated from Kenobi, his former master, grows close to Palpatine, the Chancellor of the Galactic Republic and, unknown to the public, a Sith Lord. Their deepening friendship proves dangerous for the Jedi Order, the Republic, and Anakin himself who inevitably succumbs to the dark side of the Force and becomes Darth Vader, changing the fate of the galaxy forever.

Directed by George Lucas
Produced by Rick McCallum
Written by George Lucas
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen, Ian McDiarmid, Samuel L. Jackson, Christopher Lee, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, Frank Oz
Cinematography: David Tattersall
Production Design: Gavin Bocquet
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Doctor Who’s new Production Designer is Michael Pickwoad. He takes over from Edward Thomas, who's been head of the art department, since Rose (2005). On BBC, he explained the design behind the new TARDIS for the 2013 season of Doctor Who.

Check out the interview after the jump and click on the images to enlarge.



Question: What inspired the look of the new TARDIS?

Michael Pickwoad: There was a desire that a new TARDIS should be much more technical and be darker and moodier than before, along with a sense that this machine can fly.

Working in the previous TARDIS it became apparent that the gallery was not only difficult to get to, but awkward to use and so the idea of a gallery that could go right around the interior and give a lot of scope for shooting would be a positive design feature

The feeling of technical precision in the Hadron Collider, the world’s largest and highest- energy atomic particle accelerator, Hi-Tec Architecture and what might Barnes Wallis, the great inventor engineer who I once had the privilege of meeting, have come up with, were some the of the inspirations.

Question: What was uppermost in your mind when you designed the new TARDIS?

Michael Pickwoad: The design of the main ribs was the most crucial feature as they needed to support the gallery without obstructing floor space and be a shape that suggested high technology, but of an organic nature that would sweep from the floor to the central rotor like a magnetic field diagram. Their shape is a blend of straight lines and sweeping curves connected by sharper curves that give it a definite and particular profile, and although they are large, the structure still has a sense of delicacy and precision.  The use of steel allowed this delicacy and the surface was finished in a cosmic blue, suggesting a unique Gallifreyan alloy.

Various numbers of ribs were experimented with in the drawing stage, and with twenty ribs being too intense and sixteen being too far apart and out of balance with the intended scale, eighteen appeared to be just right.  The overall size of the new TARDIS is the same as the last, but appears to be larger as all of the space is accessible.

The entrance was designed to make the arrival within the space, rather than on the edge, and give a sense of weightlessness by not being aware of how the bridge to the console platform is supported.

The staircases connecting the different levels, all in different directions, take on the essence of an Escher drawing and were designed to give a confusing yet magical look.

The new design incorporates enough lights as part of the design to basically light the set for wide shots. They can be made to chase round the set to give a sense of motion or acceleration, and turn red for danger. The pairs of blue and amber circular lights on the gallery were based on Dalek head rings, a not inapposite reference for TARDIS evolution.

The console itself returned to more of the look of earlier designs, allowing for more positive technology, veering away from the whimsical, yet retaining a sense of entertainment. This may be considered retro, but allows for a greater range of controls and levers that can be combined with touch screens and computer panels, which in themselves have less shape. The Doctor, of course, always needs a lever.

Question: What’s your favourite element of the new TARDIS interior?

Michael Pickwoad: This has to be the contra-rotating time rotor. It came to me when realising that all TARDIS have had a large circular feature above the console, which never actually did anything. By making it revolve it would suggest that it was computing the time co-ordinates and setting the course through time.  Looking at the revolving tray in a microwave suggested the idea that if each ring supported the next on wheels fixed to the centre, then by turning one ring, the next would revolve in the reverse direction and give more of a sense of computing and conjuring up the idea of a circular slide rule.

Each ring of the rotor is divided into eighteen parts, complimenting the eighteen ribs of the TARDIS structure, and being finished in silver and furnished with Gallifreyan symbols, adds to the sense of precision.

Here's the scene from Doctor Who series 7 special "The Snowmen"




Images from http://whopix.wordpress.com

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Today I thought I'd share some storyboards from Terminator 2. They were published in the now out-of-print book Terminator 2: Judgment Day- The Book of the Film- An Illustrated Screenplay (Applause Screenplay Series).


Director James Cameron is a respected artist in his own right and has done concept design and storyboards for many of his films.

The storyboards here are actually from Philip Norwood (Terminator 2: Judgment Day, TRON: Legacy, The Abyss) and Steve Burg (Prometheus, Star Trek: The Motion Picture) who worked with director Jim Cameron and visual effects supervisor John Bruno developing all the visual effects story boards.

Check out the rest of the images after the jump. Keep in mind some images are duplicates of others, but I didn't want to cut any of the pages up. Click on the pics to enlarge.



"These preliminary storyboards, drawn by Steve Burg, Philip Norwood, and John Bruno, depict the destruction of Skynet from the point of view of the beleaguered human' soldiers In the original Future War sequence. A wounded soldier is about to be blown away by a terminator endoskeleton; we cut close to see the light fade from the it's [sic] red eyes as it prepares to fire, With Skynet destroyed all of the remote-controlled machines freeze up, the Flying HKs failing out of the sky."

See more of they're work here: Philip Norwood at http://phillipnorwood.com, Steve Burg at http://steveburg.com.


Wikipedia Description:
Terminator 2: Judgment Day is a 1991 science fiction action film, the second installment of the Terminator franchise and the sequel to The Terminator (1984). Directed by James Cameron and written by Cameron and William Wisher, Jr., it stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick, and Edward Furlong. Terminator 2 follows Sarah Connor (Hamilton) and her son John (Furlong) as they are pursued by a new, more advanced Terminator, the liquid metal, shapeshifting T-1000 (Patrick), sent back in time to kill John and prevent him from becoming the leader of the human Resistance against the machines. An older, less advanced Terminator (Schwarzenegger) is also sent back in time to protect John.

Directed by James Cameron
Produced by James Cameron
Written by James Cameron, William Wisher, Jr.
Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick, Edward Furlong
Cinematography Adam Greenberg

Via io9


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