Elysium - Things That Fly

 Hi! Here's a kinda odd selection of images I did for Neill Blomkamp's Elysium, a fictional science movie I was lucky enough to contribute to. These are pics I found on the world's widest web so I hope I'm allowed to repost 'em. Along with my Weta Workshopian pals Aaron, Stu, Leri and Ben we created over three thousand images for Neill so hopefully at some point we can share more, some of them were pretty cool!
The top two are smuggler's shuttles, there was a pre-existing physical set built that these designs had to fit around.
Next one down is a not-quite-final design of Carlyle's Veyron-inspired shuttle and a look at  his pimp-esque chillin' chair. Was pretty cool that the Bugatti guys did a final pass on it.
After that is an early-ish sketch for the deportation shuttle and then the final design with a couple of paint options, was really pleased with how that came out.
There's some images of the Raven around that I did the exterior detailing and paint on but I'd feel like a dick posting them here cos the rad and iconic design I was painting over is by the very talented TyRuben Ellingson.

If I come across my droid and weapon stuff I'll post that stuff too. This was a rad film to work on, there were a lot of awesome briefs from Neill and heaps of amazing work generated by those ^^^ aforementioned a-holes, hopefully someday we'll get to show more of it.

Oh, here's a Fun Factoid™ - the registration/serial numbers on Kruger's RPG launcher, the smuggler's shuttles, deportation shuttle and Raven seen in the drawings and even in the final movie are the dates I painted 'em!
"That fact is neither fun nor oid. You are terrible."
Whoah! Chill dude!

lil' lolrods

Here's a story - a tale if you will - put your feet up, you'll like this one. So I did these doodles in a meeting then I coloured them in! That sort of stuff happens to me all the time, my life is mental! Mental!

Ghidoragh - Threat Level Ultra Cover ArtsWhole!

Yo! Here's the cover art for EP that I was blabbing on about down there↓I done did it with that Broadmore guy that you like so much. Really stoked to have got the job, the band is totally blowing up and the drummer is a dreamboaticus maximus.

We knew we were gonna be doing something Psygnosis styled from the Amiga era but hadn't decided what type of game we were gonna be ripping off. There was so much rad box art back then, rich pickin's for burglin'!

When I was a young'n at primary school a kid told me about a movie he saw called Mad Max. He said it was about a guy who drove a truck with spikes on the tires and ran over heaps of dudes. I liked the sound of that! When I saw it and realised that kid was a big fat liar I was really disappointed but grew to love it anyway.

That image of a spiky-tired 18-wheeler stuck with me though and I wanted to paint it for this. Greg wanted to paint a cyber-knight on a motorbike and viola - here they is! You can see the evolution of the painting in Compress-o-Vison™ here, Greg and I bounced it back and forth a bit and then we stopped doing that and it was over.