day two of the Scimitar

Well, the overall design had been approved, so the next step was to get into the details and work out how the ship would open up into a spider.  David Negron Jr was on the show and had worked on Voyager prior to Nemesis.  I was always a fan of David’s work, and I so loved his ability to whip out some awesome ideas in beautiful quick color sketches.  Below are some variations on ideas to get the Scimitar to open up.  There were a lot of ideas that he penciled out and some of which had some wicked hinging of the wings.  The two of us would work off of each other’s concepts, and it was a lot of fun to work with Dave, even though we were in different buildings.  Dave’s work on the Scim was short, and we both did the same with the next ship, the Romulan Valdore.  We worked back and forth to get the big V’s look and details down on paper.  Both of us had big palettes of things to do, and while Dave was working on ship sketches, he was also busy working on the Reman mining complex.  I was doing both Enterprise and Nemesis, as well as Doug Drexler and the rest of the E art depot, so it was one very busy Art department.  Below are a lot of drawings that started to define the intricacies of a very complex  battleship, so sit on back in yer easy chair and enjoy Day 2 of the Reman Scimitar!

tight winged spider concept

this one was my favorite, loved the back of the ship hinging area

a very aggressive idea!!!

A simpler idea where the wings come to gether to make one mighty wepons point

I loved this spreading Peacock/spider look and especially how the arms arch across the top of the ship's front view.

the kite version was cool but didn't fly,,,,Haaa!

this was cool and depicts a similarity to Andy Probert's original idea for his Romulan Warbird from TNG

Dave's tight ideas were really cool and would have loved to see some of these realized in CG

another great idea

here was a 3/4 view with the first of the hull based hinge points and layered wings sections

this drawing came from the end result of a little cardboard model built to try and work out the wings without doing a million drawings first

detail of the front of the ship, CG artist Rory McClish over at Digital Domain designed the central hull cannon section and I drew in his designs onto this sketch .

the Thalaron weapon was far more elaborate in the early days and the next two sketches show a radically large weapons bay and focusing system which later were removed for a simpler idea

exposed wepons bay and thalaron focusing details

a close up of the wepons bay

in the end the massive bay became a pair of impulse engine exhaust ports. the tiny circle shaped detail above the new impulse thrusters is the round window where the Scorpion blasts thru in a later scene.

and a later added detail of the silly back up thrusters

Some screenshots: