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The Incredibles 2 | Visual Development

Old Enemies

World's Safest City
Stretched Out

Good Old Days
Stars of the Sky Tours
Incredible INC.
Go Away.

Finally I present you guys my top secret personal project: The Incredibles 2!

'WHAT?! Incredibles 2 artwork?! Is Pixar working on a sequel?!'

Well, not exactly. Let me explain.

A couple of months ago I was watching Pixar's 'The Incredibles' again, and started wondering wether a sequel would ever be made, and how awesome it would be to do visual development for such a project.

But, as I don't really have (director) Brad Bird or Pixar on speeddial, I decided to just start development on this fictive project myself, and see where it would lead me.

On the trainride to work I started scribbling down ideas for a possible storyline and doing quick thumbnails to explore some of these ideas visually. I created around 50 thumbnails I think, which I eventually brought down to these 7 images.

As I'm not much of a writer, I'm not going to bother you with the story I based these images around; I would much rather hear your interpretation of these images, and other ideas you'd love to see in a sequel!

It would be great if these images could start a buzz around The Incedibles 2, and have Pixar acually do another one. :)

Feedback, comments and ideas very much appreciated as always.

-Edwin

UPDATE 10/02/2012
My little fan project has defenitely started to create a buzz! Here's a list of websites that have featured my art sofar!

Animatie.blog.nl:
http://animatie.blog.nl/concept-art/2012/02/08/concept-art-the-incredibles-2

NuJij.nl
http://www.nujij.nl/film/knappe-concept-art-voor-the-incredibles-2.15620963.lynkx#axzz1lpU8byeJ

ThePixarTimes.com
http://pixartimes.com/2012/02/08/awesome-fan-creates-concept-art-for-the-incredibles-2/

PixarPlace.com
http://www.pixarplace.com/artwork/fan-concept-art-the-incredibles-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fan-concept-art-the-incredibles-2

Slashfilm.com
http://www.slashfilm.com/superhero-bits-170/

FirstShowing.net
http://www.firstshowing.net/2012/check-this-out-amazing-fan-made-the-incredibles-2-concept-art/

Digg.net
http://digg.com/news/story/check_this_out_amazing_fan_made_the_incredibles_2_concept_art_firstshowing_net

TheMovieSnitch.com
http://www.themoviesnitch.com/2012/02/the-incredibles-2-concept-art/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-incredibles-2-concept-art

Blast-O-rama.com
http://www.blast-o-rama.com/2012/02/08/incredibles-2-development-art-sort-of/

I09.com
http://io9.com/concept-art/

Cinema.be
http://www.cineme.be/archives/16311

BadTaste.it
http://www.badtaste.it/articoli/dei-concept-art-fan-made-il-sequel-degli-incredibili

FilmTotaal.nl
http://www.filmtotaal.nl/artikel.php?id=24882

Movies.com
http://www.movies.com/movie-news/incredibles-2-concept-art/6582

FlickDaily.com
http://www.flickdaily.com/news/check-out-this-wonderful-fanmade-incredibles-2-eye-candy-plus-a-bevy-of-other-amazing-concept-art/?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=tweet&utm_campaign=tweet-thefilmz

ComicsAlliance.com
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2012/02/10/incredibles2-concept-art/

YouBentMyWookie.com
http://youbentmywookie.com/entertainment/amazing-imaginary-concept-art-for-incredibles-2-15521

PixarPedia.thumblr.com
http://pixarpedia.tumblr.com/

Cine-Escape.com
http://www.cine-escape.com/the-incredibles-2-edwin-rhemrev-fan-conceptual-art

Comicsen8mm.com
http://comicsen8mm.com/2012/02/13/fan-made-concept-art-de-the-incredibles-2/

Animatoons.com.br
http://www.animatoons.com.br/os-incriveis/fa-cria-artes-conceituais-para-possivel-continuacao-de-os-incriveis/

Island Thumbnails

Here's a quick update with a new technique I've been developing for thumbnailing environments By only using hard blacks and whites it's a perfect way for quick shape exploration. Let me know what you think!

I'm also still working on my topsecret personal project; I'm currently wrapping up 5 to 6 environment paintings which I plan to post all at once, hopefully before the end of the year :D

Oh, and enjoy one of my first efforts in animation; have a very merry christmas and a happy new year! :D

-Edwin

Pensketch Village

Currently working hard on improving my digital painting skills, unfortunately not yet anything I can show you guys. In the meantime here's another sketch I did for my sketchbook. Inspired by the awesome Regis Loisel.

Oh, and a bunch of childrensbook-covers I did a while back recently hit Italian bookstores , I'll be sure to put those up here soon aswell, stay tuned :)

-Edwin

Space Cowboys - Character Development

Well, finally another update! I've been working hard on freelance projects, but now that my schedule is clearing up a bit, I'm back at work on my personal projects aswell, yay!

I've picked up my Spacecowboy project again, for which I posted some charactersketches a while back.
I figured my cowboy character needed a horse to ride (yes, I know, I'm a strong conceptual thinker :P), so the last couple of days I focussed on character development for the main characters' horse.

Most of the poses and emotions in the sketches come from the fact that the horse and cowboy will be encountering alot of aliens, hence lots of falling/being beamed up poses :) All sketches were done directly in pen, with a 'mircoschrijver' from the 'HEMA'. Dutch people will know what I mean. :P

I've already finished another batch of pencilsketches for this project, and also some digital plein air sketches I've been doing around The Hague on my macbook, I'll be sure to put them up here in the next couple of days as well.:)

-Edwin

Cliff Dwellings | Thumbnails

Here's some more stuff from the masterclass I'm taking, focusing on designing buildings this time. Sketches were done in pen, greyscaled in photoshop. More stuff from class coming up! :)

-Edwin

Creature 17

Here's a colored version of one of the creature-thumbnails, done with my cintiq in Photoshop,in aprox. 3 hours. Next FuturePoly class will be focussed around buildings & vehicles, should be fun! :) -Edwin

Floodliners

Here's an environment piece I've been doing for my personal project, which I've now officially dubbed 'Floodliners' (=name for the people living along the floodlines).

As you can see I'm steering away from the high scifi look I initially started with in my previous thumbnails. I've decided to go for a more post-apocalyptic world, where tsunamis have flooded most of the lands, causing land to become extremely vaulable (=reason for conflict between factions).

Above, an idea I had for the lair of one of the local crimebosses; a cruiseship that got stuck between the rocks during The Great Flood, now the perfect place to monitor who comes in and out of the harbour.

I've also started work on a floating city (= where I'll be able to reuse some of the chinatown ideas from my previous post), so stay tuned :)

Edwin

Scifi Thumbnails - Part 2

Here's some more stuff, some work I've been doing on Chinatown. I'm trying to capture the atmosphere as found in a city like Bangkok, combined with a bladerunner type of feel. Next update: tomorrow! :)

-Edwin

EDIT 04/02/2011: Added the 3rd image, another concept done to flesh out chinatown. More stuff in a couple of days! :)

Snow Village

Here's something I did for fun, inspired by all the snow we've been having here in Holland these last couple of days! :)

-Edwin

Windy Vilage - Development sketches

More painted stuff coming up soon, but in the meanwhile, here's some stuff from my sketchbook.
These pensketches were done as visual development for a village i'm currently designing, which is turning out to be alot of fun! Done with my 0.4 Micron inkpen, greyscales done in Photoshop as usual.

I hope to find time to follow up these thumbs with some colored versions soon, so stay tuned :)

Thanx for looking,
-Edwin

Pen Layouts

After an awesome 3 week vacation in Mexico (hola amigos en Mexicoooo!), some hectic times at work, and a rather slimeybooger-ish flu (of which I'm still recovering *snort*), I'm finally back to show this blog some love again, as I've been neglecting it for way to long already.

Above the first batch of sketches to make up for the long leave of absence, done in my brandnew Moleskin sketchbook with my trusty 0.4 inkpen, with greyscales done in Photoshop.

Sketches like these are usually the first step in my workflow when starting development on a new idea for a story or project, as it allows me to get a 'feel' for the project as a whole real quick (these take aprox. 10-15 min per sketch). Goal was to go for epic and cinematic compositions, which hopefully shows through in the thumbnails.

I've also been doing alot of digital painting lately, so expect some speedpaints and other painted stuff up here in a couple of days aswell.

Thanx for looking, feedback much appreciated! Thanx! :)

-Edwin

Environment Layouts

Greyscaled: Original sketches:
I can't watch tv anymore...they just cut me off! Damn you Ziggo! (= a crappy dutch cable tv provider) *shakes fist at the world*

But, having all this spare time now, did force me to do more sketchin' (thanx Ziggo! :D), so here's some stuff I've been working on.

Just to try something new, I thought I'd do something shocking, and play with..... *gasp* ....wide panels! This instead of the 16:9 format I usually tend to work in.

It allowed for some fun experimenting with layout and composition, kinda like animation backgrounds you sometimes see in artbooks.
I also just saw Princess and the Frog (a must buy!), which was the inspiration for some of the scenes here.

Done with a 0.3 inkpen, greyscaled in photoshop.

-Edwin

EDIT 08/06/10: Added the original linesketches for your viewing pleasure :)

Life happens when making other plans

Each day I go to work by subway, and as I exit the subway station I pass by this oddly located workspace, situated at the start of the escalator at subway station 'Spui', The Hague.

I didn't notice it for weeks, probably like most of the thousands ands thousands of commuters that pass by this guys office, day in, day out. As I took a peek through the blinds, I was overwhelmed with a feeling of sadness; a rather old man was sitting behind his tiny screen, boxed in by walls.

That feeling of sadness and isolation I've tried to capture in above 3 location visuals.

I added the palmtree poster to give it some more story ('life happens when making other plans' sorta speak), the empty planning board and yellow ticketbox were actually there IRL aswell. :)
A subtle visual joke are the vertical blinds, which I set up to resemble prisonbars, making him look like a captured animal in the zoo. :)

Dedicated to the man under the escalator!

-Edwin

Waterfall

I spend some more time fiddling with custom brushes in photoshop this weekend, above the result. Though I liked the trees I did in my previous painting (below), they were very graphic; so I thought I'd try to give the leafs and grasses in this painting a more softer feel.

As always, feedback much appreciated, thanx!

-Edwin