Tuesday, October 9, 2018

Concept art and design for the Mortal Engines film

Philip Reeve wrote the novel but it took a team of Kiwis to bring it to life for the silver screen. This featurette highlights the work that concept art Nick Keller of Weta Workshop, Wellington put into the design of Mortal Engines.Is Nick the new Doug Chiang He's paid his dues having taken a turn at digital design for The Chronicles of Narnia’, ‘Under the Mountain’, ‘Avatar’, ‘Indiana Jones 4’, and ‘The Hobbit’ trilogy.The design above is the '13th Floor Elevator' which is the ship of Historian and explorer, Thadeus Valentine . He's the protagonist of the film.Have a look at some of Keller's featured work starting with the cockpit of the 13th Floor Elevator:Traction City Tracks: Can you spy Hester and Tom?You know how this turned out in the actual film:The Lions of London will eat you for lunch:Here's Airhaven:If you want to see more of Nick Keller's work, check out his site . Great to see the Mortal Engines crew (New Zealanders at that!) getting some broad exposure as a result of their hard work.Now, if we could only see some drawings of Skrike....