Monday Artbook preview 1. (Patreon)

Hello!

Here's a couple of pages from the artbook draft that I quite like. It's rather gratifying to be actually putting together something like the many art books that I used to collect from anime. We're still drafting it together while sound is in production and updating as that is happening.

The alien is way too detailed for an animation model, but I couldn't really take any more detail out without diminishing its Giger-ness..! And I was the only one being forced to crunch on it, so it's fine... a studio would have had me killed if I handed that in, I reckon.

I did research into what kind of tech level the 1979 Alien film is at when it comes to hyperspace engines, etc, so that's gone into the notes in the art book. For the look of the ship, I wanted something bulky and slow and very functional and industrial-looking. It's a mining ship and it's probably going to get hit by small rocks a lot, so a bunch of big boxy cargo containers with engines strapped on made sense.

I'm picking some full color pages to show in the next sample. I want to make sure it has all the behind-the-scenes chapters you'd expect and more. Additionally I'd appreciate some hints of any chapter ideas, extras you'd want to know or see more of? 

-Paul