Infinity: The Quest for Earth - Photoshop concept stages

Human weapons

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Various stages of a work in progress recording:

The initial doodles exploring the shapes I wanted to draw.

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A refined sketch of the parts I liked from the inital doodles.

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Basic shading work. Note the blocky outer side parts were clashing with the sleek body.

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I liked the squashed sphere part so I moved it to the front and back and reworked the sides...

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...and put it in the center. I didn't like the sphere part at the front so I changed it. Reworked the sides again to incorporate thrusters.

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I liked the overall shape of the sphere in the center, but it was still clashing a bit so I merged it into the body.

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Basic shading and colouring.

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More changes to the front and more detailing.

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Beefed up the sides to make it feel more like the original doodles. Added turret mounts to the front part.

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Instead of plating and/or turrent mounts on the front I decided to draw exposed structure. Readded the sphere at the front to break up the exposed structure a bit.

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Minor overall changes, more detailing.

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Current state of the recording. Removed the side spheres, more minor detailing.

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