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INSIDE HOLLYWOOD: Hydra Train concept sketches Captain America
Never had to draw a steam train before, took me a little bit of research to get into it. We found a German streamline train that we all very much liked, the sketches all jump of that. More inspiration came from the amazing American steam train styling of Art Deco by designers such as Otto Kuhler, Raymond Loewy or Henry Dreyfuss. © 2010 Marvel...
INSIDE HOLLYWOOD: Tron Uprising Concepts
The production asked for a 'classic helicopter', yet Tron-esque. My favorite proposal, very geometric, with tiny jet fighter cockpit and octagon fuselage. Considered too abstract / needed more interior space for filming.This version has a twin gunner cockpit like usual combat helicopters have, and we carried this over into the final design. ...
FRIENDS WORK: David Levy - Prometheus
Prometheus owes much of it's great look to David Levy. He just uploaded tons of his contribution to his blog. We both came to Hollywood for Tron, to the same desk, and I was happy to briefly be part of the Prometheus team amongst him, Ben Procter and Steven Messing. Everything you see here from David was done 10 times faster then you...
INSIDE HOLLYWOOD: Tron Uprising Concepts
The design process on Tron Uprising was brutally fast with no turning backs. As Lead Vehicle Designer I tried to maintain the agenda that Uprising vehicles are geometric yet dynamic shapes and silhouettes that can be broken down into an algorithm and will look out of place in any other world. LIGHT TRAIN: This cubist train features...
SERGIO PININFARINA: 1926 - 2012
Italian car design super legend Sergio Pininfarina passed away last night at 85. He shaped automotive dreams of generations like no other, and the decades of wonderful sculpting for Ferrari will stand forever. Pininfarina badges should be much bigger on cars like the 288 GTO, favorite dream car of my teenage yea...