On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

When you’re doing a review for a book that’s mainly about the artwork of a movie, things become a bit difficult. Not impossible, mind you. Just difficult. The reason for this is partly because you may not know how much of your audience has seen the movie in question at the point your review is expected to see print or “go live”. It’s an unavoidable issue.

So before I continue, good manners require this question: is there anyone in this audience who (a) hasn’t seen Star Wars VII yet, and (b) cares to see it without being spoiled about plot details?

(((waits for audience to respond to these questions)))
( Possibly Spoilers After the Cut )

This has been gnawing at my brain for a while now. If a classic Kirby-style Helicarrier is as long as a Nimitz-class CVN, what should the innards look like in a "Master Systems Display"-type cutaway, such as you'll see on the TNG/DS9/VOY-era Star Trek shows?

So I took scans of Eliot Brown's work - other people had put them up years earlier - and started running with them.

The dorsal radome encasing the "island" needs work to make it symmetrical, and there's a lot of work after that to get it to the level of an Okuda or a Hansen...



Note to Disney/Marvel legal staff: If you'd rather, I'll take this down. I hope you'll leave it be, as I need the mental exercise of this project.

FInally re-read the zun manual closely enough to remember where to use a "sfek" glyph rather than a "pakh".

One of the things I find intriguing about technical art is the branch of "cutaway" or "cross-section" drawings. I do consider Eliot Brown to be one of the better people whose work has been published, to name one example which you already know about.

(Eliot, if you're reading this and you've got new stuff coming up soon, a lot of us would be glad of a heads-up!)

Over at Core77, though, I was reminded of a few others who've entertained me and/or others here and elsewhere in this article:

Masters of the Cutaway

Go. Enjoy. Come back so we can argue about it!