war of the worlds

this last week, I've been working on the war of the worlds project for visual design. We've been designing the tripods, the walking machines of the Martian invaders. In the book, they are described as: 

'Seen nearer, the Thing was incredibly strange, for it was no mere insensate machine driving on its way. Machine it was, with a ringing metallic pace, and long, flexible, glittering tentacles (one of which gripped a young pine-tree) swinging and rattling about its strange body. It picked its road as it went striding along, and the brazen hood that surmounted it moved to and fro with the inevitable suggestion of a head looking about. Behind the main body was a huge mass of white metal like a gigantic fisherman's basket, and puffs of green smoke squirted out from the joints of the limbs as the monster swept by me. And in an instant it was gone'

I've tried to keep as close to this as possible in my designs, although I have been influenced by other designs, for instance, the designs in the art book that came with the musical, as well as the designs in the most recent movie. 

I've kept the tentacles, and I tried to think of the physiology of the creatures that built it.

This project was a lot of fun, as I really enjoy scifi novels and this is one of my favourites.