Howdy all, HOT NEWS!!!! HOT NEWS!!!!! HOT off the press and will be released later this week on the Star Trek website!!!! J.J. finally Talks at length about the new film and Paramount is releasing some location pix!!!! WOOOOOO HOOOOO
Here is quick look at the header that you’ll want to keep an eye out for…. OK enjoy and can’t wait to read this one.
Today’s sketch is of the final design of the Enterprise B, The B came to be because of budgets reasons on the production and there was just not enough cash available to make a new ship and shooting miniature for Generations so the USS Excelsior model from previous films was called for to be recruited as the B. Story line called for some hull changes so that the Nexus ribbon could whip off a chunk of the ship without destroying the whole ship. This was my first art assignment on Trek and what a fun one to say the least.. I was one huge fan of Bill George’s Excelsior and despite all the changes we were asked to do it was important to maintain the overall design as much as possible. To seek out inspiration the PBY Catalina came to mind with it’s built in boat like belly detail which made for the perfect reference to re translate into the Starship’s new hull lines. As for the big wing top props the same is seen on the top of the saucer with twin impulse engines located on the back of the dish. After Herman Zimmerman and the producers were happy with the design the sketch and some rough plans went to ILM and the reboot was underway headed by famed model maker John Goodson. The end result looked beautiful on film and the folks up in Marin County again made movie magic. Stay tuned for more on the B and lots of art n pics to come.
PBY 1
PBY 2
PBY 3
PBY 4
the uss enterprise b
plans for the bridge graphic by Mike Okuda
an old pin up pby
It’s flash back Thursday, so lets journey back to 1996 and the early days of First Contact. At the time that these drawings were being laid out on paper, the film was untitled and ST Resurrection was a loose working title for the 8th film in the Star Trek film series. The film called for a lot of designs from every aspect of production and one of the more fun and obscure requests were for a new style of upgraded photon torpedo. The E was advancing in it’s on board weaponry and the newly established Quantum torpedo was the in thing. We had broken for lunch one afternoon and were venturing off the lot to one of the two choices of restaurants and on the walk a car drove by with this cool thing strapped to the hood. What was that!!!, I wondered and back at the desk a few hours later that shape kept coming to mind and I wanted to go stand on the corner to see if another one would go by so I could learn more about what it was. it was a few weeks before I saw another one and thankfully the odd shaped box was stopped at a traffic light and I was able to catch the brand name off of the side. back at the office I was describing the box to Mike Okuda and he ventured onto his computer and found out that the box’s were a new kind of storage unit for travelers. With all of this new info it was off to the drawing board and a combination of the Mark V torpedo and the Yakima box made for the first and final pass of what the new torpedo was going to look like. At that time the torpedoes had a much larger section in the script and were to be built for many of the scenes that called for them to be physically handled. as time went on the scenes were cut and all that was left were the concept drawings. So after years of sitting in the flat files these drawing are seeing the light of day once more, so without further delay here is the torpedo sketch and some of the inspiration that went into the Quantum’s final look.
yakama 1
Yakima 2
#3
The Thule box
and the Quantum
advertisement art, curtousey of Fredericks nostalgic newspaper movie ads
Holy smokes 45 years!!!!! Who ever would of thought that this little show would have spawned into what it has today!!!! The 12th movie is now in the works, we’ve enjoyed 5 television shows, and lots of cool merchandise, and out of geekdom bought lots n lots of bad merchandise. HAAA! Regardless the golden age of Television and the imagination of Gene Roddenberry, produced one incredible show in the 60′s, and on September the 8th 1966 we were introduced to Nancy, the salt monster, from the premier episode called “The Man Trap” Her terrifying debut started us down the path for weekly adventures with the crew of the USS Enterprise. I so loved this show but after my parents saw the opening episode deemed it to scary for me to see for at least a season. My introduction to Star Trek came with “the Doomsday Machine” and is still one of my all time favorites. Besides all the show was and is I have to say the music from that series is beyond incredible, the themes and instruments were ground breaking at the time and still to this day when you hear the theme you remember the episode. Hard to think back that being a little fan of Trek would eventually be a part of my life in a significant way as a livelihood starting in the late 80′s with occasional model work on TNG and full blown on Trek V working with my hero Greg Jein. Great fun and lots of great folks to work with on all of these additions and the same is true with trek 12. With all this said I want to end with a big Happy Birthday to “the Man Trap” and a big thanks to Gene for starting it all. Here are a few pics from man trap and some of the other incredible episodes from the 60′s
Nancy, I have salt Nancy!!!
The USS Enterprise
Kirk is seduced
from Doomsday machine
the USS Constelation
being drawn in
from tomorow is yesterday
tomorow is yesterday
from the arena
Gary 7
the planet killer
Wow what a week!!! had our big garage sale, making the final pack for Wyoming, getting ready for the fair, and just started on Star Trek Monday morning, life is good but a bit blurry in the high speed lane, HAAAA anyways I’m takeing a coffee break and trying to get up as many con pics as I can this morning,,, there will be a part 4 if I don’t make it today. OK one n all have a great day and enjoy the pics.
a pin up style movie ticket, cigerrette girl
direct from disneyland, a pair of evil queens
it's mickey's bones
an awesome star wars poster
komodo king
ol scratch
just cool
full view
staem punk thrives at the con
the dream machine from "Inception"
the bat mobile
the original, my favorite martian ship
James Bond props from "the Man with the Golden Gun"
props from, Men in Black
a very cool MIB rifle with a special detail
there's a real octopuss inside!!!!
a wicked bike sculpt, (GROWN)
CAPTAIN A
the leg lamp in miniature
OK have to go so there will be a part 4
As promised here are more pics from the show!!! be sure to check out pin up model Valerie at the end of the post and stay tuned for part three of the con coverage coming tomorrow!
iron man
the full size T800
the big suit from iron man
one cool iron man model
chromed!!!
captain America
the original alien
full size predator bust
hey, there's a hidden mickey in Jessica's dress!!
one very cool Star wars display
this one blew me away
from Sucker punch
the pan am stewardess's
what ever this is it's cool
coolness
I bought an art book in the 80's called sexy robot by Japanese artist Soriama and it featured pin up girls rendered in gold and chrome and this is the first relly good sculpt I've seen of his work, INCREDIBLE!!!
lots of great costumes started hitting the floor come Thursday
creepy
a lot of the sculpts are grown now, it's an interesting mix to see grown pieces and hand sculpts!!
this is a very cool
arrrrrrrrrr!!!!
awesome home made steam punk costumes everywhere!! this was a fav
way cool retro rockets!!! i wanted these bad
and one more pic of the bewitching Valerie to end todays comicon special, stay tuned for part 3 coming tomorrow!!
Here is a rare shot of the Ent-E engineering corridor. Note the translights at the end of the hall which lets you know that the optimum use of this location, from a camera’s point of view is from the center of the set. This set was realized for ST Nemesis and is where Riker first encounters Shinzon’s Viceroy.
e e corridor
Good morning and happy Wednesday. GOOD NEWS for you collectors out there, or if you’re like me a window shopper, the new Profiles in History auction catalog #44 is now out, and what an awesome auction they are having. Below is a link to the downloadable version, and I have already spent hours looking at this one and am so glad that my wife can hold me back from these incredible auctions, haaaa….. Tons of great movie items, art, and just a cornucopia of things that we all wish we could have. Here are a few pages from my wish list and by far the best thing in this catalog for me is the Spaceship from Zombies of the Stratosphere…also used as Commando Cody’s ship in Radar Men from the Moon) A real treasure!!! OK then off to the drawing board so enjoy the download and have a great day!!!
http://profilesinhistory.com/hollywood-memorabilia-auction-44/hollywood-memorabilia-auction-44
cover
the coolest model ever
Wow It's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
What a great car
COOOOOOL,,,, stuff from the Rocketeer
the not so Jupiter 2, jupiter 2
very nifty Trek stuff
and holly cow the simple blaster from "Forbidden Planet"
Howdy and good morning everyone, this is the piece that was created for the Ships of the Line calendar, and here is the process of how it came to be… Doug Drexler called and asked if I wanted to submit another piece for the 2011 calendar, and I was so happy to be able too. From a personal challenging point of view, I wanted to see if I could do the whole thing in Photoshop and thus I bit off more than I could chew because I had never taken on such a big task in Photoshop before….. It took a very long time to make everything work this way but I was very happy with the end result. What Doug needs to get the calendar going is a few ideas and then some sketches to pitch the concepts to Pocket books in New York. A big nod has to go to the USS Midway CV-41 for the inspiration from which the idea came. My friend, Nelson, and I had just had our first tour of the Carrier in San Diego after a week at Comicon and once we were below the flight deck, we were in the aircraft storage area of the ship. The bay was almost the entire length of the flight deck above and one incredible site to behold. I was imagining the E bays looking like this in my head but didn’t really think about rendering the concept until the calendar art was in the works.
The bay pictured in the drawing is the one situated at the back of the saucer. The first sketch shows a rough view of the angle and what the surroundings will be like. I drew the first pass in the wrong format so I had to add more length to the left side before I got the go ahead from Drexler. Once all was ago, I started the piece off with a very clean pencil drawing, did a scan and then began to texture and paint away. It was way hard to find grid and metal screen textures that were usable, and I spent more time researching than drawing at times, HAAA! I’m sure this is a big issue with those of you who live in CG and 3D land that you build more than you need. I did the same with putting a large amount of under the grates equipment below the floor line and once I put the shuttles on top of grates the details were all hidden. Lost a couple of days with that idea LOL. From there it was a lot of fun to find tons of LCAR screens to use, and I even found some deck crew from the carrier Enterprise CV-65 and dropped them in the background. After the piece was nearing completion and I was passed my due date, I started to drop the heavy shuttles on the opposite side of the bay and at the last minute left them out so the wall details could be seen. I went back and forth with this layer and in the end, I’m glad I left it turned off. The hanging shuttles were a fun way to fill space and add another layer of detail. The ships were designed to be the fighter group that were added to the ship’s arsenal after the Nemesis refit.
I have mentioned this loosely in past posts, but if the chance arises I name the shuttles after people that I highly admire. There are never enough shuttles to do this idea any justice so the names rotate as the drawings for the Trek films are being drawn. In every drawing I do, though, there is ALWAYS a shuttle named for the great “Siouxsie Sue” my all time favorite singer. Siouxsie has the most beautiful voice and many a drawing have been done with her music as the backdrop. In the early 80′s her first band was named “Siouxsie and the Banshees”, then in the 90′s the group changed their name to the “Creatures”. As of the present time, Siouxsie has gone solo and she only gets better with time!!! Love ya, Sioux. Next is the Yeager named after the great Chuck Yeager. Remember “the Right Stuff”???? Yeager is the test pilot who broke the sound Barrier in October of 1947 and is still flying today. The next shuttle was named after pilot Glen Edwards, Glen was one of the pilots that was killed in a test flight of the Northrup YB-49 (The Flying Wing). Muroc AFB was renamed Edwards Air Force Base in his honor in 1950. The 4th Shuttle was named after William J. Fox, another USAF General that has a small airport named after him in Lancaster, CA. A few days after the drawing was out of my hands, news came that my friend Robert McCall had passing away. This terrible news hit me hard!!! If this name is unfamiliar to you, Bob is the space artist from Arizona who is best known for his works on 2001 a Space Odyssey and his massive murals at the Smithsonian depicting NASA and the quest for space. I made a quick call to Doug and he let me replace the Fox shuttle with the McCall shuttle in Bob’s Honor. On an interesting note, except for Siouxsie all of the above men listed knew each other. Bob’s passing was a sad time, but it was so nice to be able to honor him in such a memorable way. So with that all said, Thanks go to Doug and a few of my heroes that got to be a part of the drawing. Enjoy, and more from the world of Trek to come.
the e exterior
sketch of the E bay
view of the E bay from the ILM miniature
the USS Midway, CV 41
the first sketch
the reformatted sketch
the full placement rendering
in the works
more penciling
the background painting and I found that cigarette smoke makes for a great galaxy detail
the bay minus the graphics and shuttles
even more pencilings
and the final piece
little details 1
little details 2
little details 3
little details 4
Siouxsie from the early 90's
Siouxsie from today
Capt. Glen W. Edwards
Edwards Yb-49
Chuck Yeager and the X-1
Yeager in the cockpit of the NF-104
Robert McCall
McCalls art from 2001
WOW!!!!! I just had a moment to hang out on the computer and browse a bit and I came across a website and a blog by RYAN DENING!!!! Ryan was my boss on the Star Trek online game when Perpetual was putting the game together. We met in 06 and I started working remotely with a visit up to the bay about once a month to meet and go over all the new lists of things to be rendered. Ryan was hired to be the design boss for the game and what an awesome talent he is. When I first walked in the office, which was very tiny and very dark you could see his art work being modeled or manipulated on every screen as you walked through the halls of computers. Ryan has an incredible sense of design and his passion for Star Trek was without limits. I was a huge fan from the first day and I loved his style of color & tight perspective on how he would choose to set up a rendering. AWESOME talent and one incredibly nice guy!!! I am so glad to have come across his pages today and so glad to be sharing some of his work with you.. I attached both his links in my blog role so be sure to go check out some incredible stuff!!! So for know hold on to your chair and feast your eyes on some of Ryan’s fantastic illustrations.
The Excalibur, STO's flagship
the sacagawea
some cool interior
Wow an Abrams which has been Denisized!!!
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