*Behind the ships of Foundation (2021) *Behind the ships of Dune (2021) *The Art of Lorin Wood Three new long-form, deep dive articles into the making of space fiction, on my Patreon ==>

Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance opened 2 years ago today at Disney's Hollywood Studios.

The Matrix Reloaded (2003): The Ganesha, art & design by @georgehullcom Love this aggressive design. We see this hovercraft very briefly and partially in Zion's dock.

Space Truckers (1996): Truck cockpit, art by Simon Murton

Flash Gordon was released 41 years ago today.

The Bad Batch (2021)

Don't be surprised if this account is momentarily renamed The Spidervershipper in October 2022. 🙃 If these films are splendid, the production work is just as formidable.

Yeah yeah ships, so now I know it's the Osiris (seen in the Final Flight of Osiris Animatrix) by Guy Hendrix Dyas (Passengers, Inception).

But the Oracle is the Queen.

I'm still not 100% sure if this is the work of Ed Natividad, but Niobe had a hell of nice costume sketches for Matrix Reloaded (2003).

Another Saturday night when I should have done VR and where I finally spent hours trying to decipher signatures in old pixelated concept art. 🤘

Passengers (2016): The Avalon, art by Guy Hendrix Dyas "We had a lot of internal discussions about the look of the ship. Sony, among the higher echelon, were quite split as to if this was too radical of an approach. Luckily I’m a good salesperson and I was able to sell it."

Matrix Reloaded (2003): The Nebuchadnezzar, modeling by @JHDargie

Matrix Reloaded (2003): The destruction of the Vigilant, storyboards by @Delgadosaurus

Inquest of Pilot Pirx (Test pilota Pirxa/Дознание пилота Пиркса, 1979)

@emanshiu [Advent calendar 2021] One day, one artist December 4: The art of @Isaac_Hannaford

@JHDargie More Neb modeling magic by @JHDargie because I love it.

Note: all the other Matrix hovercrafts of which we know the origin were built in the USA. Not in Europe. And only the Neb (2069) and the Osiris (2079) from the Animatrix were built in the 21st century.