2007 TV News Archives

Krypton

November 18, 2007: Deconstructing Krypton Concept Art for “Smallville”

Jason Dunn, concept artist working on "Smallville", emailed the Superman Homepage to let us know that his designs for Krypton, as seen in "Lara", the 5th episode of Season 7, are available via his Sketchblog website.

    So we had a flashback sequence in Smallville to planet Krypton which we had to design. I referenced mainly the original 1978 movie for the natural formations, but tried to innovate somewhat with the design of the city. The first thing we knew we wanted a reddish cast to the the thing, reflecting the red sun of Krypton.

    I had this idea about the building having a glassy look, which would catch and reflect the red sunlight and do some interesting things with it. I figured maybe the towers were grown, just as the Fortress of Solitude is an organic, crystalline structure, but that the towers were also carved and polished by human effort, and not as chaotic as the Fortress.

Jason told me that the city in the scene is Kandor. Check out the concept art from initial sketches to final shot at Hawkeye's Sketchblog, where you can also see a movie clip of the final shot and layer breakdown.



2007 Television News

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