Ryan Dening
Concept Artist & Partner at North Front Studio
Star Trek: Discovery - Section 31 Ships
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These were designed to be Federation "Black Ops" stealth ships. The challenge was to make something new but also identifiable as a Starfleet ship (not another alien race, or IP for that matter). I thought it would be cool for it to transform to minimize and disguise is silhouette for stealth.
Early thumbnails
Other variants for the fleet. Similarities work with the fiction, but also helped VFX
Drone fighters that close up and deploy from the 'skin' of a larger ship in a swarm.
