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The War of the Worlds Since a Trip to England in 2004, I've been putting together a illustrated version of the book. As I complete illustrations, and concept sketches, I'll upload em here, In the Meantime, Some RefrencesTo The gentleman who contacted me the other day about illustration for an upcoming War of the Worlds RPG, please contact me again, at either iwilli1025@aol.com, or lncradvncd@aol.com or at http://lanceradvanced.deviantart.com/ Concept Sketches Early Concept Sketches Concept Sketches from back in my late High School, Early College Days, featuring a variety os specilized Tripods, and orbiting comand ship, and small landing cylinders, as well as some detail of a overly complicated "hand" for the fighting machines Early Fighing Machine Concept Sketches Half colored Fighing Machine, shorter, with reduced numbers of tentacles, and a very Anime look, with the Heatray, in a cyclopian head. the little cannons on the sides are steam jets, to neutrilize the black smoke. Concept SketchesCross Section of the contents of a Cylinder, Martian, Early Handling Machine Sketch, and a doodle of a Fighting Machine design I had in High School Concepts Sketches Two Concepts Sketches Three -Handling Machine, and control couch and Martian, showing a bit of anatomy the lungs and ears, and with a feeding tube. Concepts Sketches Four -Tripods Walking, Standing up, Seen from below and in front, the flying machine spreading black smoke, and more. Machine Concepts Sketches -Fighting and Handling Machines, with some attention to the legs and joints. Martian Landing Concepts -Scale sketches of the Cylinder, and the Fighting Machine, cross section and cutaways of the cylinder, and misc Martians and the flying machine. First Tripod Concept -My first revisitation of the Fighting Machine, attempting to be more mechanical than my original design, seen in the Etching below, some attention paid to the retraced form Tripod Two -The next evolution, with a more curved line to the cowl. Tripod Three -Near Final design, with regards to the body, the legs are in an early form, having added a single knee, foot with a blunter design than the final claw. Tripod Four -Evolution of the Leg Designs, now with two knees, and extensible leg lengths, rather exagerated here Tripod Five -More on the hood, while developing the final design, in semi cross section, with some detail of the body/leg join Leg Study -A blueline sketch of a full Fighting Machine leg Second Leg Study -Study of a Martian "Knee" showing the overlapping friction bearings Handling Machine -Freehand Sketch of the latest version of the Handling Machine Handling Machine Half Inked Vesion of the near final Handling Machine, I stopped when I messed up the inking, and grew dissatisfied with the look of the tentacles. Digging Machine- The martian's excavating machine Flying Machine Concepts One -Flying Machine Concepts, focusing on the fanlike wing design, inspired by the desc of the winged Martians in "The Crystal Egg" Flying Machine Concepts Two -Diffrent design, with a more underslung fuselage Flying Machine Concepts There -Details of body and engine in the evolution of the machine Flying Machine Concepts Four -Same as above, with some attention to the front louver design The Great Gun -The invasion cannon, in the crater of Pavonis Mons, showing a bit of the underground construction Fighing Machine Emerges -The first Fighting Machine engages the Infantry at Horsell Common,before standing erect. Underfoot, In the Storm -A Fighting machine coming down the road in the storm, from the Narrator's POV Dead LondonThe narrator wanders through the empty streets of london The Thunder Child The Ironclad rams the first martian The Pit The narrator looks down over the Martian Pit on Primrose Hill WOTW:2005 In a modern day setting Martian Shock Assult Machines, scrabble from their landing craters Pencils Finished Peices "What I saw of the Destruction of Weybridge and Sheperton" - An etching I did back in college, the spark my current design sprang from"The Thing itself lay almost entirely buried in sand, amidst the scattered splinters of a fir tree it had shivered to fragments in its descent. The uncovered part had the appearance of a huge cylinder, caked over and its outline softened by a thick scaly dun-coloured incrustation."
"As it did so a second glittering Titan built itself up out of the pit."
"To us and to an observer about Ripley it would have had precisely the same effect...the Martians seemed in solitary possession of the darkling night, lit only as it was by the slender moon, the stars, the afterglow of the daylight, and the ruddy glare from St. George's Hill and the woods of Painshill"
"The cylinder was already opened in the centre of the pit, and on the farther edge of the pit, amid the smashed and gravel-heaped shrubbery, one of the great fghting-machines, deserted by its occupant, stood stiff and tall against the evening sky."
"Of a night, all over there, Hampstead way, the sky is alive with their lights. It's like a great city, and in the glare you can just see them moving. ... And the night before last"...he stopped and spoke impressively..."it was just a matter of lights, but it was something up in the air. I believe they've built a flying-machine, and are learning to fly."
Return to ILLUSTRATION War of the Worlds Resources War of the Worlds Amazon.com Bookstore Video Games Jeff Wayne's The War of the WorldsVisual Pinball table based on Jeff Waynes' War of the Worlds, by Anthias My "The War of the Worlds" Visual Pinball table The War of the Worlds on Coin-Op Museum War of the Worlds Half life Mod Models War Machine Deluxe Model Hobby KitWar Of The Worlds HG Wells Machine Model Hobby Kit War Of The Worlds War Machine HG Wells Model Hobby Kit Martian Tripod from the War of the Worlds. Martian Tri-pod Walker: Crashed 'War of the Worlds' Martian Cylinder and 'War of the Worlds' Martian War Machine Paroom Station Cephalids 1890's tentacled Martian invader, on Earth 1890's tentacled Martian invader, feeding Alien tripod (large) Alien tripod (small) Martian Empires War Of The Worlds HG Wells Martian Model Kit War Of The Worlds Martian Model Kit Martian Tripod Paper Model Websites 2005 - Speilberg/Cruise MovieJeff Wayne's War of the Worlds Pendragon Pictures "H.G. Wells The War of the Worlds" RetroVision Books Tie In Books to Pendragon Pictures "H.G. Wells The War of the Worlds" The Martian Panic Sixty Years Later,What Have We Learned? Eve of the War (.com) Eve of the War (.co.uk) Dr Zeus's War of the Worlds War of the Worlds Online Companion to the Broadview Edition of War of the Worlds War of the Worlds Movies.info Supreme Martian Overlord's Doom Filled Page of Doom The Wellsian Design Archive 3D Models at TurboSquid: 1890's Martian Machine, 1950's Martian Machine, Martian Cylinder, Fighting Machine, Fighting Machine, Red Weed, Jeff Wayne Style Handling Machine 3D Models at DAZ 3D:Martian Fighting Machine Photography The Woking MartianA Close up of the Bacteria at the Woking Martian A Close up of the Fighting Machine "We got to Hampton Court without misadventure, our minds full of strange and unfamiliar appearances, and at Hampton Court our eyes were relieved to find a patch of green that had escaped the suffocating drift. We went through Bushey Park, with its deer going to and fro under the chestnuts, and some men and women hurrying in the distance towards Hampton, and so we came to Twickenham. These were the first people we saw." - Under Foot NASA Landsat Photos of the setting of The War of the Worlds, with some of the events marked, locations are very rough guesses. Other Martian Tripod Playhouse Concept(pdf)Return to ILLUSTRATION |