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drew some kiddos (mostly) from memory

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PACIFIC RIM + letterboxd reviews (insp/insp)

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i think about this scene literally 24/7

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newt :]

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dr geiszler

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Kaiju interior decorating!

My new website redesign is up and running, be sure to check back to the main news page for more updates and new galleries coming soon. In the meantime I’m going to try and catch up with the Sketch Macabre tumblr a bit, so here’s some PACIFIC RIM concept art for the interior of the fallen Otachi and the second brain sequence.

The first designs were like an organic cavern with neural electricity jumping off the mountaineer-like scavengers rubber suits. The entrance to the kaiju’s second brain also incorporated a large angular heart valve like opening based on a concept by the talented Allen Williams.

The original suits were just place holders and a quick idea I sketched up for scale, with the amazing costume designer Kate Hawley providing the wonderful final scavenger versions in the film.

Once Guillermo approved these keyframes, concept artist Stephen Schirle did an incredible paint over for color and lighting, which you can see (along with more of his great Pacific Rim work over at his website)!

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PACIFIC RIM Props!

In 2011 I spent almost a year working as part of Guillermo del Toro’s concept team on PACIFIC RIM! Along with designing some of the film’s kaiju (including Otachi and Slattern) and helping out with storyboards, I also got to design some props and set pieces. One of the first props I designed was the “welding backpack” that Raleigh wears while working on the construction of the Anti-Kaiju Wall.

I sketched the initial design as a place holder when I storyboarded that scene, Guillermo liked the shapes in the drawings and asked me to refine it. I did a more detailed version of the front / back which was then sent out to be worked up for construction.

Below is the final hero prop from the film (photo from the Prop Store Pacific Rim auction).

Later on I was asked to design some of the various maintenance vehicles for the Shatterdome scenes. One concept that made it into the film was the “Tool Train”~ which was a series of driverless carts that carried different Jaeger repair tools and were directed by a technician using control wands. 

A few months later I was thrilled to be told it was sitting outside in the studio parking lot (not my photo)! Check back for more Pacific Rim concepts in a future post!

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Into the Breach! Storyboarding PACIFIC RIM

Along with working on concept for Guillermo del Toro’s PACIFIC RIM (you can read about my kaiju designs for Otachi and Slattern here) and some prop work, I also worked on storyboarding the film with Rob McCallum, Francisco Ruiz Velasco and Raúl Monge. Below are a few sample pages to some of the sequences did.

After we were done with most of the concept work, Francisco Ruiz Velasco and myself stayed on to help storyboard artist Rob McCallum with the final sequence to the film and rework changes to earlier sequences after Rob left.

For the breach sequence at the film’s finale, I did tighter color boards to also work out the concept of the “Throat” which led to the Anteverse. More Pacific Rim storyboards in a future post!

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Sitting. Thinking. Ive been thinking a bit about pacrim lately but havent completely fallen into the hole again....... what can i do to make that happen.. *tapping fingers* i want to draw newt and hermann........

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some things i doodled while away

insp for third one :]

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The Humans Are Dead,,,

The Humans Are Dead.

We Took Poisonus Gasses,

And We Poisoned Their Asses,

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This asshole

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crying specifically over how the end of pacific rim goes about wrapping up mako’s emotional narrative with a direct parallel between two scenes: 1. little mako, alone, calling out for her parents after the kaiju attack. stacker finds her but that’s not who she’s looking for, and 2. adult mako coming out of her escape pod, looking around, and seeing that no one is there and that she’s alone again after a disaster. she’s finally avenged her parents, but now she’s lost stacker too?? there’s that gut-wrenching moment where she realizes that she’s still alone. and THEN!! to have raleigh RETURNED to her!!! alive!!! they’ve both lost the people closest to them and have been alone for a long time. for them to be together in that last scene, for them to have each other, restores mako’s faith. it quiets the crying child in her. raleigh coming back to mako proves to her that things change. we heal.

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And a word to the wise, do not trust him.

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newt owns this shirt i do not take constructive criticism

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move!!!!!!!