Darin Hilton Art and Design

STAR TREK 2

Concept art and matte paintings

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View of the Enterprise engine room, I added lighting and dressed it with some nice pipe arrays that were prepared by Atomic Fictions TD's

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To make the environment look a bit mroe futuristic I made girder assemblies that we could scatter around the interior, these are hand painted concept sketches that I based these models off.

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Back wall concept. Without overwhelming the grounded style of the engine room, JJ Abrams wanted touches here and there of more futuristic panelling.

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Final matte painting of the engine room and back wall with the interior lighting.

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Another matte painting for the engine room. all the renders were 32bit which made it easy to maintain the quality of the lighting and values in the render.

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Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013)

I joined the Atomic Fiction team after leaving ILM to help produce 3d environments of the engine room for the film. The original footage was shot at a Budweiser plant in Southern California and lacked a bit of the Science FIction look the director JJ Abrams wanted. We added details, girders and other touches to augment the live action footage while still trying to keep the unique look of what are literally giant beer tanks.

I also designed and built some detailed model pieces that could be scattered around the set to give a bit of a science fiction feel without clashing too much with the plant interior.