Final Fantasy: The spirits within

It is the first all cg film to go where most producers and artist just simply will not go. Hyper realistic character and futuristic tech design.

This genre of film obviously lacks the return profit that goofy dancing cg animals or cartoony characters do as it isolates only a small population of viewer, probably a techy male from ages 12 on up.

Spirits within has been criticized for its "weak" story line and the ever so popular and overly used term "uncanny valley syndrome" but I think everyone will agree that the only thing uncanny is the technical achievement by Square and all of the artists involved on the project.

Final Fantasy: The spirits within has been airing lately in High definition on HD.net and is still my favorite all cg movie to date. Kudos to Square for taking a chance and pushing the medium beyond anything we've ever seen.











It's difficult to find a whole lot of information on artists who have worked on the film and even the bonus disc doesn't disclose a whole lot of information on the subject. Though there is a commentary version on the bonus DVD, it's geared more towards the creation of the cg characters as opposed to the technical elements of the film.

There is a making of Final fantasy: The spirits within book.
Stay tuned for number nine of the most influential concept ship design in film countdown here on conceptships.blogspot.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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Concept ships renders from Sparth

You know December is hard hittaz month here on concept ships... Right?! Everyone has seen some piece of work from Sparth somewhere... And if you haven't... You're about to... Right now. His loose concept ship render style is balanced out with great execution of composition and color. Check out some more concept art work from Sparth RIGHT HERE!





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Czech tech concept ship mech

I knocked out one more concept ship with the 07 mark before 2008 hits. I've gained some pretty good control over the last year or so with my tablet... I hope to continue at this pace into 2008. Happy new year!



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Ion cannon

Okay...okay... This is not a concept ship. It is the ion cannon from The empire strikes back to shoot them down. Conceptcannons.blogspot? This is a taste of what direction my multimedia blog/zine is headed in. I've got some great stuff in store for conceptships.blogspot in 2008.



Starting January 1st 2008, conceptships is going to highlight the best sci-fi movies of our time who have produced the world's most influential concept ship art and designs.

It's going to be a retro look back at the best sci-fi ships that have paved the way for todays filmers and concept design artists compiled of rare photos and multimedia film loops along with a little commentary from me here at conceptships.blogspot.

I've put a lot of thought and effort into my compilation so please join conceptships starting January 1st highlighting the most influential spaceship design in movies/film and television.

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Concorde style concept plane ship

Not sure who did this or what it's from. Has a Concorde supersonic transport feel to it with a hint of anime.



Any info on this piece of art would be appreciated.

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New and Improved Antimatter Spaceship for Mars Missions and the x-43A & x-43B

A little dose of reality today...

Most self-respecting starships in science fiction stories use antimatter as fuel for a good reason – it’s the most potent fuel known. While tons of chemical fuel are needed to propel a human mission to Mars, just tens of milligrams of antimatter will do (a milligram is about one-thousandth the weight of a piece of the original M&M candy).

However, in reality this power comes with a price. Some antimatter reactions produce blasts of high energy gamma rays. Gamma rays are like X-rays on steroids. They penetrate matter and break apart molecules in cells, so they are not healthy to be around. High-energy gamma rays can also make the engines radioactive by fragmenting atoms of the engine material. Read the rest of the article RIGHT HERE!



NASA x-43A Hypersonic Experimental Vehicle concept



NASA x-43B concept

AFF fleet roster by strangelet

Insane amount of concept ships on strangelet's Deviant art pages... Check 'em. Actually most all the them are renders. Not concepts. The models have been put together by different people not just stranj. Yet Stranj touched every ship at some point in its creation. Check out Angels Fall First Universe... Our teams site.






This artist has a colab video game dev site RIGHT HERE!

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Andrew Lee concept ships

These two concept ship images come from a great Chinese concept artist by the name of Andrew Lee. There is more concept art on his website RIGHT HERE!






Andrew has a big digital sketchbook on conceptart.org.

Practical model concept ship Minerva

This is a model of the Minerva, the protagonists' ship from the "Crusher Joe" anime movie series. Love the blue paint job on the front... Very Boeing concept looking.



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Carrier assault

Concept ships illustration by Mike McCain A.K.A. moljnir.
You can see more of this artist's work RIGHT OVER HERE!



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A Gaudi tribunal spaceship by Crankbot

This gritty organic concept ship is by Crankbot. There is more work by this artist on this site RIGHT OVER HERE!



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Stormhead skyships

Concept ship design by Ruben Devela... There is more concept design work from this artist RIGHT HERE!



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concept ship art from Francis Tsai

Here are two stylized concept ship drawings from Francis Tsai. You can see more work from this artist RIGHT HERE!





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Vector concept ship with sonic boom mitigator

This is one of my first attempts to draft a concept spaceship design with CorelDRAW. It was made around the end of 2004. I've always liked the long tube at the front of the ship to balance out the design but never thought of any other use besides maybe a gun, light or receiver of some kind and wondered what kind of effect it would have on a high speed traveling vessel.



I recently came across this nasa photograph of a F-15B testbed aircraft with a Gulfstream Quiet Spike sonic boom mitigator attached.



Insane!



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Concept ships from Daniel Simon

Another super hard hitta in the technical concept design field... Daniel Simon works with the Massive Black crew. Super fine line style... Almost vector like. You can see some more amazing concept art design work from Daniel RIGHT OVER HERE! CGChannel just interviewed Daniel OVER HERE.





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Khang Le concept ship

Let's start the month of December off on a good note. This concept ship vessel is done by Khang Le... One of my favorite concept artists out there. Super versatile and super tech. Khang just updated his site RIGHT OVER HERE!... Check it out and hang on! Or is that Khang on!




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Prototype D216 by omi-kun

Concept ship digital art by Omi Nanasuko A.K.A. omi-kun. You can see more of Omi's work right over here!




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OUTSIDER A full-color web-based science fiction comic by Arioch.

There is some amazing concept design work on this site. I believe the creator's name is Jim Francis. Support this site... Nothing better than a free anime style comic book with kick ass concept ship designs.

Humanity is caught in the crossfire of a galactic war, and it's up to the members of Earth's Scout Corps to forge an alliance that will ensure Earth's survival. But which side to choose: the oppressive, insectoid Umiak or the ruthless, elflike Loroi? Outsider is self-rated PG-13 for intense battle sequences, related images, and brief language.







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Stranded on Phobos

This was one of my first attempts at modeling a spacecraft in a 3D application (Lightwave).

It's supposed to be a crane ship that's been stranded on one of the Mars' moons... Phobos. The middle section is not finished... Maybe I'll finish it one day.







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Capital of Korah

Concept ship digital painting by Daniel Graffenberger A.K.A talros.
You can see some more of Daniel's digital concept design art paintings RIGHT OVER HERE.



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Swordfish concept ship illustration

This is a concept spaceship vehicle painting from Hector Ortiz... You can check out more digital concept art work from this artist RIGHT OVER HERE!



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Ramjet fighter concept ship

This sick little concept design ship sketch is from Grant Regan.
You can see more of Grant's digital concept illustration work over at unitstudio.com.



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Piranha fighter concept

This concept ship is from Mike Doscher A.K.A Malaveldt. Pretty tight!



you can see more concept spaceship and vehicle design from Mike right here!

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Futuristic plane ship

This is a vector illustration design concept done a while back in CorelDRAW 12. It's a prop plane at earth gravity but has a booster rocket for short distance space travel. It folds when stationary for horizontal space saving.



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