Digital Domain
here is another Digital Domain composite shot featuring both their CG shuttle plus the live action argo/jeep. This is the sketch of the argo that was built on top of a ford pro racing chassis. really fun to see this one come together and haul around the Mojave during the filming sequences.
Eavesdropping with Johnny 
It’s a pretty cool design. But I couldn’t help thinking that it would have been better to have this float above the ground without wheels but with some kind of anti gravity system. Picard would have had the same fun driving/flying something like that. 😉
that would have been cool and knowing What is possible in the Star Trek world it was odd if not out of place to even have a wheel based vehicle, but you have to do what the script says,,,,haaa!!! cheers
Well, Picard’s the retro fan: Dixon Hill, Shakespeare and so on. Stands to reason he’d have an interest in old-style wheeled vehicles.
I like the way they translated your design into reality, pretty dranclosely eh. I also esp. like the way you matched the overall feel of lines of both the craft. Very cool. And yeah, I felt the “car” was I bit odd myself, but I went with it eh.
Thank dude! 🙂
PLL,
deg
nice to know they had a rig in case they ran into a race that also had off road rigs,,, Hey look at that they did!!! HA!!!!!
Not to sound like an echo, but I liked your design but just hated they felt like they needed a dune buggy instead of some cool antigrav hopper.
I know, I know – what the script says. Eesh. 😉
Maybe the shuttle can have other uses without the buggy? 😀
I thought if you had a jet!!! why take the car!!!
I thought if you had a jet!!! why take the car!!!
EXACTLY.
That’s why I felt the whole scene was kinda contrived (and labored), for the sake of wham-bam chase scene action. I like Bullitt (one of the few car chases done right), but this is Trek for Pete’s sake.
LLP,
deg
being an enormous Mad Max, Road Warrior fan I was excited about working on these rigs for the desert battle, as odd as it was to make 4 X 4’s for the Federation it was still a great treat!!
This and the scorpion are great, fun designs. I also liked the way the lines match the both Argos, but I have no problem with the wheels. Sure, not high tech and a bit out of place, but I love off-roading and this is a ST vehicle I could actually own and enjoy (and I would in a heartbeat)!! It makes me feel more connected to it.
If you think about it, usually when they use a shuttle they get out and look around on foot. This type of vehicle allowed them to move quickly about a small area and be able to see the ground easily. Besides, while zipping about above the ground looks cool, just think of the extra effects time and dollar savings just being able to film them driving around for a change! That must have benn a nice change for the folks involved in those scenes!!
Love the design just the way it is!! Where’s mine?
It was really fun to see this thing drive. It cut thru the desert with a suspension that absorbed everything making for a most smooth off road adventure.
I for one don’t mind it being wheeled.
The reason for this is because if it had been some sort of anti-grav Vehicle. Then everyone would have said that it was to Star Wars, due to the speeder.
The one thing that bugged me about always teams is what DeanneM stated, that they always went on foot. Where you could not cover a large area fast. the Argo made senses and it was fun to finally see it.
Will you be posting up the Bad guys Vehicles that you posted up on SFM?
all is good and true,,, and yes I’ll put up the bad guys soon!
Well, you could have made it pretty different from the Star Wars speeder, I think. But I already remember people walking out of the theater complaining about the fire fights in the ship corridors as being way too much Star Wars. 😉
But the most fun would have been to see the clash between Starfleet technology, a antigrav ARGO, versus the ‘outdated’ technology of the inhabitant, simple dune buggies on wheels.
A well, can’t always get what you want. 😉
Indeed, I used to off-road myself, so in-and-of itself, oh yeah baby! Even some Trek 4-byin’ I’m ultimately cool with, eh. Data even speaks to the fact of Picard drivin’ like a speedin’ nut-bar, as P was havin’ fun!
And oh yeah, Mad Max, Road Warrior, yep. Thunder Dome, I think pretty much lost most of us, eh.
PLL,
deg
Oh those Mad Max films!!! Those never get old and so love getting em out every onece in a while after everyone has gone to bed!!
You have to wait until they’re in bed? Too much violence for ’em? Give me a call and I’ll put one in, too, next time. 🙂
deg, it also made me smile because he was having so much fun tossing everyone else around a bit!!
I’m away for a couple hours and you post another 3 concepts with great detail, wow!
Many thanks for sharing all of these with us 🙂
Nice designs for the Argo jeep. It was fun seeing it in action with Picard, Data and Worf.
I actually liked Star Trek;Nemesis a lot, and as a result I can’t get my head around the fact why this movie was so much reviled…true it was perhaps not as powerful as First Contact, but in my mind it did embody all what was in the spirit of the best what TNG had to offer…however that being said, yeah, the argo buggy scene was totally out-of-character in some way…Picard going “Mad Max” ??? Apparently we humans are still not so enlightend in the 24th century as we were led to believe…Still a very nice sand buggy design though, but more at its place in the aforementioned Mad Max-trilogy
Hi John,
Any chance of making your Argo Jeep drawing into a full-blown model kit? If so, how much do you think it’ll be? Do you build on commission? I wouldn’t mind having one!
If so, please email me. Thanks.
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