That picture is captioned "background guy from Star Trek Beyond". What's the Discovery link?Neville Page posted this image in February and we all missed it.
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I was wondering if Page was working on Discovery. The DSC Klingons are pretty much his concept sculpts from STID:
He is working on DSC.I was wondering if Page was working on Discovery. The DSC Klingons are pretty much his concept sculpts from STID:
He commented on that image in reference to DSC in a group I admin in(where he is a member). Although it's possible his comment means it was a direction for Saru. I've asked him.
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It looks like a slightly more alien version of Saru to me.
Well concept work is often not the same as the final product.
True. They probably started with a more alien version and then reigned it in to make it easier for the actor and perhaps to allow for more expression to get through.
Concept art for Beyond leads to final product in Discovery. I'd say Paramount has the grounds to sue CBS.
Well one thing I've noticed about Page's designs is that a lot of them from unrelated movies tend to resemble each other. Besides, it's not like this is the first unused Star Trek movie design Discovery has used.
I do prefer the concept design to the final one. It looks less like there's a Human underneath. Obviously that's something they always have to work with, but sometimes there are clever ways to make them look less Human. The long-faced guy at the buy in ST09 for example, he doesn't speak so it's easy to add a realistic looking fake mouth lower down on his chin which makes him look much more alien.
I do prefer the concept design to the final one. It looks less like there's a Human underneath. Obviously that's something they always have to work with, but sometimes there are clever ways to make them look less Human. The long-faced guy at the buy in ST09 for example, he doesn't speak so it's easy to add a realistic looking fake mouth lower down on his chin which makes him look much more alien.
Well, I guess his people weren't biologically determined for the purpose of grinning at a joke. He can't sense the punchline coming.
Pretty sure the ST'09 Klingon Warbirds are based on rejected ENT concept art, as shown in the ST'09 art book
If I remember what Eaves said on his blog correctly, the final design was done by Alex Jaeger inspired by the unused design from ENT. But they're close enough that when I first saw the film I thought it was the exact same design.
I wonder if there will be a Discovery art book. I know we didn't get one for STID or Beyond, but with all the new designs for a TV series there's a lot of material for one. Hopefully the show is successful enough that the demand will exist.
Thankfully that's about to change!
https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/two-kelvin-timeline-art-books-this-fall.288154/
Woohoo! That's very welcome news. Now to go look for some money...
I don't think so. Even if Paramount owns the rights to the concept art, they may have shared it back to CBS if they weren't using it. Or perhaps the unused concepts revert to the creator, who recycled it for DSC
I gotta say, though, and I know we Trekkies are infamous for reading too much into things, but the fact that the books are described as covering "the new trilogy" somehow gives me slightly less hope of a Kelvinverse 4. <_<;
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