One of the many off-the-wall marketing ideas that Paramount came up with for the new Star Trek was to have various artists paint models of the USS Enterprise in whatever quirky style they wanted. I've seen these models in movie theaters in Los Angeles, on display at ShoWest, and everywhere else Star Trek has been marketing, but Paramount has only now launched a full gallery of all of the models online right here. One of the ships hidden in the gallery is painted with the Slusho logo (listed as Enterprise #12 in the gallery), as done by Amy Vatanakul, an "artist and animator working at Bad Robot Productions." Check it out! My personal favorite is actually the Enterprise #21 model, in the lower left corner, as that ship just looks frickin' badass with the alien creature being integrated into it. I'd really like to buy that one, please! There are ships designed...
- 4/13/2009
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The official website for J.J. Abrams' Star Trek has a pretty cool page up consisting of a number of Enterprise models painted and designed by various artists and designers, some of them you might have heard of. My personal favorite is probably the one above, by illustrator/concept artist Rafael Burgos. He has worked on film projects such as Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen, and is currently working on James Cameron's Avatar.
Check out these other ones by fan-fave comic book artist Jim Lee and filmmaker Robert Rodriguez.
It's a little surprising that they're turning these over to pop/graffiti artists and in-house designers—a very artsy move. It kind of plays into the film's ambition to break out of its geeky franchise mold and make Star Trek a hipster-cool commodity. I'm not sure if that's a good thing, to be honest, but hey, whatever works,...
Check out these other ones by fan-fave comic book artist Jim Lee and filmmaker Robert Rodriguez.
It's a little surprising that they're turning these over to pop/graffiti artists and in-house designers—a very artsy move. It kind of plays into the film's ambition to break out of its geeky franchise mold and make Star Trek a hipster-cool commodity. I'm not sure if that's a good thing, to be honest, but hey, whatever works,...
- 4/13/2009
- by Arya Ponto
- JustPressPlay.net
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