‘Star Trek’ Riverside Shipyard Concept Art
Concept designer John Eaves has posted his earliest concept art drawings of the Riverside shipyard where the U.S.S. Enterprise is shown being built in J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek.
The concept art drawings are below (click to enlarge), whilst additional naval photographs that he used for inspiration can be seen on his post here.
From his Eavesdropping blog:
One of the first assignments I had on my desk was the Riverside fleet yards in the outback of rural Iowa. Based on an old train engine turntable idea came the first layout of what the ship yards could be. And incredibly large construction facility that housed various material and electronic manufacturing facilities that were easily accessed from every dock. My friend Mike Hamby works in the US navy sub yards back East and he helped me with a lot of research with those construction yards, and so the Hamby complex was named in his honor shown here in the turntable illustration. Obviously to grand of an idea the focus funneled down to seeing a single dock scenario for the construction of the new “E” . The first couple of passes have the ship somewhat below ground level and for the film the ship was pulled out of the semi subterranian dock and set elevated off the ground. By doing so the effect would be a much grander view of this massive Starship against an Earth bound setting which really has not been seen before.
Source: Eavesdropping via i09
June 30th, 2009 at 8:20 am
star trek concept drawings of riverside ship yard in iowia area really cool and it lends it self to the movie and it clearly shows that at the advent of technology and the turn of the century that the Enterprise was built on the ground in Earth and not space the only one thing they could have shown the Enterprise taking off and launch into space and docked at space dock that`s all.