#SCI FI SPACE DROP SHIP CONCEPT ART MOVIE#

We caught up with Tim and Ryan to find out about the challenges of designing with one eye on the 21st century and another on the stars.

#SCI FI SPACE DROP SHIP CONCEPT ART MOVIE#

To bring those worlds to life вЂ“ not to mention the showвЂ™s numerous ships, costumes and weapons вЂ“ Alcon called on the design talents of TorontoвЂ™s North Front Studio.ДЇounded two years ago by games veteran Ryan Dening and movie concept artist and matte painter Tim Warnock, The Expanse was North FrontвЂ™s biggest job to date, calling on the duo to create an ultra-detailed distant future grounded in todayвЂ™s technology.

ItвЂ™s dense, uncompromising stuff, building convincingly grimy worlds around its cast of deep-space miners and underworlders, and juxtaposing their struggles against a vast, steadily unfolding conspiracy. Corey вЂ“ the pen name of authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, who also co-wrote the TV series вЂ“ The Expanse takes place 200 years in the future, in a fully colonised solar system in which the human inhabitants of Earth, Mars and the asteroid belt teeter on the brink of war. And before the fifth episode had even screened, Syfy had picked up Alcon EntertainmentвЂ™s gritty space opera for a second season.Д«ased on the Hugo Award-nominated series of novels by James S.

According to io9, itвЂ™s вЂњthe show weвЂ™ve been wanting since Battlestar GalacticaвЂќ. Ars Technica called it вЂњthe best new science fiction series in yearsвЂќ. Right from the start, The Expanse looked like it was going to be special.

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