For the August TrekBBS Art Challenge, let's design something original and iconic.
By this I mean that you can not use ANY preexisting design from anywhere in the franchise, but must instead create something new and different that draws upon the familiar motifs from the show.
So you can't use any actual costume designs or ship parts or iconography (including the Starfleet Delta). Say you decide to design a new ship, it can not utilize any "cut-n-paste" elements from an existing ship (so if Franz Joseph was entering, he couldn't use any of his Tech Manual ships as they all contain bits from Jefferies' Enterprise design. Get it? Good.)
Whatever you make has to look like it would fit comfortably alongside what we're already familiar with. (So, imagine this is 1995 and John Eaves is entering the contest. He could enter what we now know as the E-E as it does not use any pre-existing parts, yet clearly fits the Star Trek motif.)
I hope I've explained this clearly.
And no cheating with labels that say "Star Trek" or whatever. In fact, let's just say that there should be no discernible writing anywhere in the final image.
So your challenge should you accept it is to design something that:
1) is wholly original, using no pre-existing elements.
2) clearly fits within the Star Trek esthetic we all are familiar with
3) has no text component
It occurs to me that if this does end up being a two month challenge as has been done lately, that September is the 50th. So I felt it would be appropriate to try to flex our most creative muscles like Roddenberry, Jefferies, Thiess, Chang, et al did back in those halcyon days of yore.
GOOD LUCK
--Alex
By this I mean that you can not use ANY preexisting design from anywhere in the franchise, but must instead create something new and different that draws upon the familiar motifs from the show.
So you can't use any actual costume designs or ship parts or iconography (including the Starfleet Delta). Say you decide to design a new ship, it can not utilize any "cut-n-paste" elements from an existing ship (so if Franz Joseph was entering, he couldn't use any of his Tech Manual ships as they all contain bits from Jefferies' Enterprise design. Get it? Good.)
Whatever you make has to look like it would fit comfortably alongside what we're already familiar with. (So, imagine this is 1995 and John Eaves is entering the contest. He could enter what we now know as the E-E as it does not use any pre-existing parts, yet clearly fits the Star Trek motif.)
I hope I've explained this clearly.
And no cheating with labels that say "Star Trek" or whatever. In fact, let's just say that there should be no discernible writing anywhere in the final image.
So your challenge should you accept it is to design something that:
1) is wholly original, using no pre-existing elements.
2) clearly fits within the Star Trek esthetic we all are familiar with
3) has no text component
It occurs to me that if this does end up being a two month challenge as has been done lately, that September is the 50th. So I felt it would be appropriate to try to flex our most creative muscles like Roddenberry, Jefferies, Thiess, Chang, et al did back in those halcyon days of yore.
GOOD LUCK
--Alex
