COMMAND MAGELLAN: Ship Design

Some of my early concept renderings of the Magellan along with a shuttle design.

Early Rick Sternbach Magellan ship design roughs.

Rick Sternbach Magellan ship design.

Just wanted to show a bit of the development that has gone into the Magellan ship design for the upcoming film Command Magellan.  Final Magellan design is by legendary space and science fiction artist Rick Sternbach.  I developed some early concept renderings of the Magellan as seen here and then moved to alien creature design and Magellan Scout Ship design working with CG artists extraordinaire Johan Steen and Leon Maki Maki Kitchlew.  

Some of Rick Sternbach's clients include NASA, Sky and Telescope, Smithsonian, Analog, Astronomy, The Planetary Society, and Time-Life Books and many more as well as designing ships from Star Trek, such as Voyager and Deep Space Nine as well as countless props and set pieces from the various series.  It's quite an honor to be involved in this project and work with such an amazing production team.    

 

Drawing Podcast Inspiration While Drawing

Just thought I'd share a few mind blowing science and exploration style podcasts I've been listening to recently while working at my drawing table.  This type of info influences my art work quite heavily.  

  • Stuff To Blow Your Mind: Julie Douglas and Robert Lamb host this mind-blowing podcast that does just that.

  • Fw: Thinking: Jonathan Strickland. Lauren Vogelbaum, and Joe McCormick explore the future of technology and humanity.

  • Science Fantastic and Explorations In Science: Dr. Michio Kaku is a professor of theoretical physics and co-creator of the string field theory. You know him from just about every Discovery and Science Channel documentary out there.

  • Stuff You Should Know: Charles (Chuck) W. Bryant and Josh Clark cover topics you never even considered wanting to know more about. Ever wonder how the earthquakes work? Everything from abandoned houses to Muppets to space elevators is here.

  • The Seminar About Long Term Thinking: Stewart Brand hosts engaging talks to "creatively foster long-term thinking and responsibility for the next 10,000 years."

Of course I also recommend TED Talks but they are only 18 minutes long and video format so it's best to listen to them while not working on other projects.  I'm always looking for new things to listen to while at the drawing table so please drop me a line sometime and fill me in on some more interesting podcasts! 

 

ARCHIVEd work

Illustrations of mine tend to accumulate, so I'm always trying to figure out the best way to file past works. Recently I came across a bunch of early illustrations while in the process of archiving my work.  Early illustrations are generally difficult for me to look at for because one tends to improve but some still seem to hold up okay.  I decided to start an ARCHIVE to showcase some past works.    

Here are a couple of my editorial illustrations from the mid 1990s.  The top pen and ink illustration was for the American Association of Advertising Agencies and the bottom was for a magazine article about the physiology of stress.  The image was rendered in pen and ink and then I moved it across a black and white copier to give it the warped, stretched effect.