I had the honor of working on this film with a bunch of cool people at Nickelodeon! When the call came asking if I wanted to design a bunch of ships for the show, I had to say yes. Here’s some of my favorites.
Part fo the job was taking old ship designs and giving them a slight update. But the best part was looking at the shape language of the original series and projecting forward what these ships might evolve into.
Below are the prison ships which offered a completely different design language than what I was used to. It was fun challenge to make brutalist ship designs.
I wanted to share this batch of early sketches as well. Though they were way off the mark of what was needed for the show, I had a lot of fun exploring shapes and seeing how unique I could make the designs.
The final designs (in color above) were a much more brutalist look than what I originally came up with. It was such a great idea from Jhonen to make them look like flying prison cells.
Lastly, here’s the capital ship called the “Super Massive.” I was tasked with keeping the original design, but making it more detailed and updated slightly.
Super fun project to work on! If you haven’t checked it out on Netflix yet, take the afternoon off and watch it!
-Jake