Another short film i worked on around the same
time as DRONE (early 2012), I have collected the main design elements that were in
the short (and a few that were cut)....there was much more stuff but i will just post the
highlights for now. The opportunity presented itself to me and
i decided to take it as a design challenge and see what would come out
of the collaboration. Having low budget (and time) constraints was
definitely limiting in many respects but it also forced me to try to
solve problems in different ways. When the project gets picked up i
would of course like to go back in and redesign a lot of these but
thought i would get these out there as a bookmark on where the project
was in 2012.
Some of this content was used to pitch the IP
to studios but Director Kay Parandi turned it into a short film
tying everything together. Check it out!
Quick
promo image done early on to show the producer what the suit would look
like in one of the locations we were going to be shooting in.
Police costume design, created with a lot of back and forth with the Director/Producer/Manufacturing
to meet the design needs for the script....and of course what was
possible on the budget....which was extremely small! A lot of the design
needed to be simplified to large panels especially on the back/front as
the future police used that as adspace to generate revenue for the
NYPC. When the show gets picked up and we get a nice budget i would
definitely like to redesign this or maybe make a more advanced version?
A
gun design i did in 2011 that sparked initial conversations about the
project, we came to an agreement and i let them use this for the short
film. The
gun is based on current day 'centrifuge weapon system' technology,
this just being some sort of future miniaturized version of the same
tech. Video here illustrating the basic idea: http://www.military.com/video/guns/gunfire/dread-weapon-system-video/659603352001/
Early
exploration of some larger rifles based on the same technology as the
centrifuge pistol. We ended up building a few larger rifles as
background props that show up briefly in the short. This is just a small
sample of the guns i did.....too many guns.
Flying drone seen in the short film.
A
larger police vehicle that was cut for budget reasons. Probably the
first vehicle i tried to visualize in 3D to show a Director what i had
in mind......then i never looked back, powerful stuff! Lot of things i
would do differently now on this from a design / rendering standpoint,
but was a fun project to be involved with and look forward to see where
it goes. The idea with the cockpit is that its
entirely self contained, so cameras mounted all over the exterior of
the vehicle combined with display screens all over the interior which
would result in the pilots being able to look nearly 360 degrees around
them while flying and remain completely armored/protected.
A few people were asking to see the ZBrush base i built before painting
over so here it is, really simple stuff, enough to show the forms/basic
details to the director/producer to get them to lock off on it before
taking it further.
One
of the police vehicles seen in the short film, this design was a
collaboration with the Director. Multiple other directions were explored
but the more thin/streamlined helicopter form was decided as the final
direction to take. As with a few other things there is a lot i would do
differently on this now but thought it was worth putting out there.
Robotic
mosquito that was cut for budget reasons, this is the rough concept
that went back and forth with the director until we had something close
to what he was after. The form and mechanics got worked out in more
detail on the ortho but we couldn't afford to shoot the scenes this was
going to be in...maybe someday! Definitely would do a lot of things differently on this now, but thought it was worth showing.
