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| Terminator Salvation concept art by Miles Teves |
The design of the Terminator has changed over the years, but they're all cool. For Terminator Salvation they designed a bunch of unique robots, but one design was never built: The Black Terminator. Director McG said many of the machine designs were influenced by H.R. Giger and production designer Martin Laing gave the robots a black and degraded look since none of them are new.
Miles Teves is a Hollywood conceptual and storyboard artist, specializing in character design and make-up effects for films like Spider-Man (2002), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) and Batman and Robin (2002).
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"This design was for a singular Terminator robot we referred to as the 'Black Terminator' or the 'Assassin'." Teves said, "He was to be a special robot dispatched to hunt down our hero relentlessly, much like the Terminators of the previous films. He was to be very tall, made of anodized, black-chromed, titanium, and to be outfitted with special weaponry. He was to be unique in some way, yet similar to the T-600.
"Here, in this drawing, I have borrowed elements from one my my favorite yet underrated robotic, movie villain designs, to try to give him a more interesting and menacing silhouette." - Miles Teves
See more of Miles Teves' portfolio on the film at milesteves.com.
Click on the links if you want to see more of Miles Teves' concept design and Terminator: Salvation on my blog.
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What do you think of the concept art? If you've seen Terminator: Salvation what did you think? Would you have liked to see this bruiser in the movie?
Official Terminator Salvation Summary
In the aftermath of Judgment Day and the machine takeover, resistance leader John Connor (Christian Bale) must counter Skynet’s plan to terminate mankind. Rallying his underground street fighters for a last, desperate battle, he realizes that to save the future he must rescue his own father Kyle Reese (Anton Yelchin). But the most shocking discovery comes with the arrival of Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington), a mysterious loner from the past who challenges Connor with an impossible choice and leads them both on a brutal journey into the heart of the enemy.
Directed by McG
Cinematography by Shane Hurlbut
Production Design by Martin Laing
Starring: Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Anton Yelchin, Moon Bloodgood, Helena Bonham Carter
Release date: May 21, 2009
Official Site: http://terminatorsalvation.warnerbros.com
© Copyright 2009 Warner Bros., Columbia Pictures, The Halcyon Company, Wonderland Sound and Vision. All rights reserved
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Did you learn anything about why they never used it?
ReplyDeleteThanks for this post! It made me realize that I hadn't seen the movie. I think it came out in a time when my kids were just that age that we (my husband and I) were only seeing movies like this on date nights . . . and then we never caught up with it on dvd.
ReplyDeleteI like the concept art: that terminator looks seriously menacing.
Skip the movie and just sell those as toys.
ReplyDeleteI haven't found out yet Armchair, but it's not uncommon for things to be cut out because of budget or other reasons. This bad boy is awesome though.
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