concept art and set photos!

[F. King Daniel]

http://www.scottchambliss.com/Scott.../Portfolio/Pages/Star_Trek_2_(2013).html#grid

Loving these. Evolution of the USS Vengeance, the Vengeance'a bridge, the Enterpise's warp core, San Francisco etc.

 

[SalvorHardin]

Finally!

 

[MickJo1701]

Is it known if the Vengeance bridge is an extensive modification of the Enterprise bridge or an entirely new set?

 

[Titus Andronicus]

Nice!

 

[squeeks]

Is it known if the Vengeance bridge is an extensive modification of the Enterprise bridge or an entirely new set?

New set. Its very very different from the ENT bridge. (a lot smaller actually)

 

[Kpnuts]

I really hope we get lots more Federation ships in Trek 3, preferably not ugly as **** ones like the Vengeance!

 

[RAMA]

Ooooooo but where's the book?????

 

[imranbecks]

Any idea if there were any changes made to the bridge of the Enterprise? From what I saw in the movie, it looks to be exactly the same as the 2009 movie..

 

[SalvorHardin]

Unused Klingon ship concept art by Harald Belker, who worked for a time on STID

 

[Tosk]

^I barely know what I'm even looking at. A Klingon "thing" that Transforms into a flying gun?

 

[F. King Daniel]

Wow, that looks very strange.

 

[SalvorHardin]

It looks like he's not that pleased.

Q: What vehicle design did you work on for the film?
I was mainly hired to develop the Klingon ship, I was also let go at the point where it was written out of the script that we had any Klingon ships. [Editor: Since then, the Klingon ships were written back in.]

Q: You worked with Production Designer Scott Chambliss on this film. What's he like to work with?
Interesting. He is a designer who looks for inspiration online. Every week he would find something that we should incorporate. He doesn't have a classical design education so designing something new is not really in his vocabulary. He is a very nice guy, I just don't think he should do Sci-Fi.

Q: The designs are very original, but still captures the feel of the television design. What were the ship designs based on?
Scott had the idea of putting 3 towers together. I would have loved to design the most b***h'n Warbirds. I could not see 3 arbitrary towers moving in space, no directional orientation...

http://filmsketchr.blogspot.gr/2013...e=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter#.UaDtEspaeXv

 

[BillJ]

It looks like he's not that pleased.

You can tell he's not a fan of Chambliss. Though that Klingon design is a mess.

 

[beamMe]

Q: You worked with Production Designer Scott Chambliss on this film. What's he like to work with?
Interesting. He is a designer who looks for inspiration online. Every week he would find something that we should incorporate. He doesn't have a classical design education so designing something new is not really in his vocabulary. He is a very nice guy, I just don't think he should do Sci-Fi.

And yet he designed two Star Trek films that are beautiful to look at and have a realism to them; they don't seem as design as the old Trek productions.

 

[publiusr]

That might actually work better as a Borg ship with mods.

 

[beamMe]

That might actually work better as a Borg ship with mods.

Speaking of the Borg: was is just me or did the STID-creative team try and fuck with our fan-minds with the reveal of the Vengeance's drydock? At first glance it looked so much like an old-Trek Borg-ship - to me at least.

 

[F. King Daniel]

At first I thought that enourmous drydock was meant to be the Botany Bay! I was thinking, "Damn, those Abrams people just have to make everything bigger"

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Q: You worked with Production Designer Scott Chambliss on this film. What's he like to work with?
Interesting. He is a designer who looks for inspiration online. Every week he would find something that we should incorporate. He doesn't have a classical design education so designing something new is not really in his vocabulary. He is a very nice guy, I just don't think he should do Sci-Fi.

Q: The designs are very original, but still captures the feel of the television design. What were the ship designs based on?
Scott had the idea of putting 3 towers together. I would have loved to design the most b***h'n Warbirds. I could not see 3 arbitrary towers moving in space, no directional orientation...

He's a very nice guy, I just think he lacks the education and creativity to work in this genre, and his ideas are derivative and untenable.

Jeesh. I know he was asked the question, but I think it's kind of rude and unprofessional to throw a peer in your field under the bus out of the blue like that. I mean, if the guy gave you a hard time on the job or was critical of your work publicly, I could understand responding that way, but Helker made no complaints of that sort and said he was a nice guy. It probably won't affect Chambliss' ability to find work at all, but it might have with the bad word of mouth.

 

[Therin of Andor]

At first I thought that enourmous drydock was meant to be the Botany Bay!

Opening night there were people near me quietly chanting, "Botany Bay. Bot-an-y Bay..."

 

[Kpnuts]

...

Suddenly the Vengeance is stunning