Something visual...

[Alex Rubit]

Alright gang, it's been kinda quiet here lately, and I can't really blame you. We haven't really been giving you too much to be talking about. But that shall hopefully change now.

I'll be posting a couple of concept art drawings here (that's right, finally something visual). Not all of them are necessarily finals yet, but I think they just look too amazing to let them just be available to us here behind the scenes.

The first picture was drawn several months ago actually, by Peter (TechnoWraith). It's the design for the command bridge of the Bellerophon as well as the Valiant. The two bridges would look more or less identical (after all, it would be the same set if we were a TV show). You can find this little drawing right here.


The second picture is a first design concept for a Draque Marauder ship, and it was drawn by another one of our concept artists, Beth (I'm not sure what Beth's GateWorld user-name is). This one you can find right here.

And here's an interesting little design for the Enoly space station that appeared in "Preemptive Strike" and "Revolution". I think it's definitely a unique look, and probably a little different from what you were expecting. This was also drawn by Beth, and it's located right here.


You can expect more concept drawing very shortly, including a very first look at the Horizon uniforms. I'll just say I love how the Vorian uniforms blend in with the Earth uniforms, while still having their own look.

With any luck, we should have the gallery section on the website up and running on time for Season Three. That way we'll be able to put up some nice things there (hopefully CG versions of the concept art); but until then, just keep an eye on the forum for new pictures.

[SierraGulf1]

Mmmm, visuals.

I must say I'm impressed with Beth's work, particularly the space station. Both the biosphere and the Marauder have a different look than I pictured at first.

[Lt.Colonel John Sheppard]

so alex when does the prequel come out? hmm october is next week.

[Alex Rubit]

so alex when does the prequel come out? hmm october is next week.

Shouldn't this be in the "Ask the Horizon Team" thread?

And yes, very soon it's October, which means very soon Season Three will premiere. And the prequel will come out about three or four weeks ahead of the season premiere.

[Lt. Colonel Ryu Gaia]

Is that the biosphere, or a different Enoly space station?

[lionel_pendergast_rocks]

Wow, I love that enoly space station... look like a mace. Great job guys

[Alex Rubit]

Is that the biosphere, or a different Enoly space station?

It's the space station that appears towards the end of "Preemptive Strike," where the biosphere stops to take additional Enoly ships on board.

[Alex Rubit]

Wow, I love that enoly space station... look like a mace. Great job guys

Thanks. And I can only agree with that. Those are some great designs. Beth and Peter (who also designed the Bellerophon exterior) did a great job.

[mentalmichael]

Loved the Enoly space station - as long as they can build like that then all welcome our glorious alien overlords!

[Elite Anubis Guard]

I really love that space station!

[Col.Foley]

Me like

[Alex Rubit]

As promised, here are some more pictures, and this time we get to take an exclusive look at the Horizon uniform design. All of these designs were done by Travis (which is also his GateWorld user name).

This first one here is a regular Horizon/ISGC uniform. Not too different from Atlantis uniforms, but still different enough to have its own look. You can find it right here.

A slightly different version of the uniforms can be found here. The main difference is really just the color, which is a little lighter here.

Now, those are the Earth Horizon uniforms. As we all know, there's also the Vorian half of the crew, and of course they have their own uniforms. What you're about to see aren't Vorian uniforms in general, however. Much rather do the Vorians have their own versions of Horizon uniforms, which are designed to fit in with the Earth uniforms; i.e. they have the same color codes (red, blue, yellow, black and green).

So the actual Vorian uniforms, that members of the Vorian Command Council would be wearing, are again very different. I'm sure eventually we'll get to those designs too.

But now, let's have a look at what the Vorian uniforms on Horizon look like. The first picture can be found right here.

And another, slightly different version, is located here.

I personally really like how these uniforms look different, and still have kind of a similiar style. With regard to the two different versions, I kinda picture the first one as the Season Two design, which was slightly altered for Season Three.

[SG_Gundam]

Wow... Just wow. Those are simply AMAZING concepts. Especially the Enloy space station. And I like the Horizon and Vorian uniforms as well.

[SierraGulf1]

I was impressed with the work of everyone in the art department. It took a while to get a dedicated crew going, but there's some pretty amazing stuff they're working on. The concepts and the uniforms look great, and they're much easier to visualize now.

[SG_Gundam]

Yea. Well. I've always visualized them as using something like the Atlantis Expedition uses.

[knowles2]

Those uniforms rather like starfleet uniforms to me at lease, they just seemed a bit unoriginal.

But I do like the enoly space satation, draq ship, two very unique designs and defferently not like I exspected them to be,

[Elite Anubis Guard]

The Draque ship seems quite scarab like. I look forward to seeing the other ships.

[Tiletron]

The Draque ship seems quite scarab like. I look forward to seeing the other ships.

As a matter of fact, that was the general idea

Because of what was started in the series-Pilot with the Scalerious, I thought it would be great if the Draque vessels were all slightly reptilian like their soldiers... so, that will be the standard for them.

[Col.Foley]

Yeah, you are right, this uniforms are very similar in appearence to our good old Atlantis gear.
Just one question: Are you going to be designing any of the off world gear for the teams.
Something that did occur to me though is. At least it is not like the Star Trek where they change uniforms every ten episodes or so. That got a tad trying after they got it right with those gray ones.

[Alex Rubit]

Yeah, you are right, this uniforms are very similar in appearence to our good old Atlantis gear.
Just one question: Are you going to be designing any of the off world gear for the teams.
Something that did occur to me though is. At least it is not like the Star Trek where they change uniforms every ten episodes or so. That got a tad trying after they got it right with those gray ones.

Yeah, they're definitely supposed to be similiar to the Atlantis uniforms. And at the same time they're still somewhat different. I think that balance was handled very well.

We're definitely planning to design the off-world gear, as well as various other clothing. Hopefully that will happen soon.