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Title: Lorin Wood releases Aliens: Colonial Marines concept art developed with Syd Mead
Post by: gold on Feb 06, 2020, 02:39:12 AM
https://lwoodesign.artstation.com/projects/gJ4g8P

https://lwoodesign.com/aliens-colonial-marines

Very cool how she captured the original Syd Mead design language used in the 1986 film and expanded on it.

RIP Syd.
Title: Re: Lorin Wood releases Aliens: Colonial Marines concept art developed with Syd Mead
Post by: SM on Feb 06, 2020, 03:36:32 AM
Nice.
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Post by: The Old One on Feb 09, 2020, 02:40:02 PM
Great stuff.
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Post by: Xenomrph on Feb 09, 2020, 03:15:21 PM
For all the games' problems, the art assets and design elements were not among them. I'd gladly buy a concept art book for Colonial Marines.
Title: Re: Lorin Wood releases Aliens: Colonial Marines conce...
Post by: The Old One on Feb 09, 2020, 06:50:03 PM
Yeah definitely.
Title: Re: Lorin Wood releases Aliens: Colonial Marines concept art developed with Syd Mead
Post by: The Necronoir on May 06, 2020, 01:18:40 PM
This occurred to me years ago when first playing the game, but I only just remembered now:

Do you think the W-Y FTL Ship is intended to be a retconned redesign of the Patna from Alien 3 (which would mean it is also named Patna, actually)? Wouldn't make much sense, in-universe, for Michael Bishop to switch ships after carting the Conestoga class all the way to FIORINA 161.

Considering there are already two Conestoga class in the game, I can understand the desire to get a bit more variety and differentiation into the mix as well.
Title: Re: Lorin Wood releases Aliens: Colonial Marines concept art developed with Syd Mead
Post by: Corporal Hicks on May 07, 2020, 09:30:15 AM
They had been intending to design a new ship for the Patna, so it certainly wouldn't seem out of place for this to be the case. Not sure if that's an actual intent though.
Title: Re: Lorin Wood releases Aliens: Colonial Marines concept art developed with Syd Mead
Post by: The Necronoir on May 07, 2020, 11:03:04 AM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on May 07, 2020, 09:30:15 AM
They had been intending to design a new ship for the Patna, so it certainly wouldn't seem out of place for this to be the case. Not sure if that's an actual intent though.

Interesting. I wonder why they didn't have one of the characters name-drop the ship, seeing as they went to all that trouble anyway.

It also just occurred to me that we get the sequence with Hicks arriving at the end of Alien 3 in the Stasis Interrupted campaign. Can't remember if we see Michael Bishop's ship during that part, and what it looked like it we did. If it's the FTL design though, I'd say that's pretty conclusive evidence that they tried to retcon the Patna design.