This first design never made it into the movie sadly, and I don't know whether the sequence ended up on the cutting room floor or was ever even produced, but would have shown the early days of Hydra with a squadron of these heavily modified Messerschmitt BF109's. The first pass I added double engines with counter-rotating props and a twin-tail to accomodate a tail gun...
Someone in visual effects thought it needed to be more different, so the cockpit was updated, the nose lengthened and at Joe Johnston's suggested a pusher-prop a la Dornier Do335 was added. Too bad it never saw the light of day.
Lastly I was handed a pencil sketch Joe Johnston had made of this remote-operated bathysphere and asked to detail out the design for production. It was a quick-turnaround job, so I rushed this out so the previs department could model it up and start on the shot.
As far as I've heard this made it into the movie, so I'll have at least one thing to look out for tonight, besides celebrating the amazing work of my friends Ryan Meinerding, Charlie Wen, Andy Park, Nathan Schroeder Jim Martin and Daniel Simon! Hope you all enjoy the movie.
**And yes, the sub was in the movie... for all of about a half-second blurry shot! :) Great movie, though, I had a blast. **
3 comments:
Joe Johnston hands you something to flesh out - that's concept art geek heaven, really cool.
Cool stuff as usual! Seems like you had quite a team assembled as well!
Hi! I really like this sketch! I have a question about your process. How much ref do you use for this kind of thing? How much from your head? You really have an understanding on how things are put together in a believable way.
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