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This ship is red. We don't have a lot of color or real striking visages in our ships. Talk to us about the livery, how we got there and why.

TL;DRPaul Jones chose red from about thirteen liveries to add colour and personality, drawing on emergency and avalanche rescue vehicles, with two-tone finishes and gold accents, and Chris picked it as favourite.

Paul JonesArt Director

Yeah, I mean, we've spoken about this before. I think this year probably has been our most colorful year. And I think it was just a natural event, really. I started looking at our ships and there are easy wins we can do to add more personality to our ships, rather than being the traditional white or the silver or the black. I mean, they're all cool, but why not? Let's get some color in. Those 13 sort of fall into different groups. So, if my memory serves me right, there were the whites, then there were the blacks, and then there were the reds. And it's kind of the process I really enjoy, actually, because the concept artist will have done all the hard work and come up with the great geometry and stuff. And then I render out about 20 different finishes and then just overlay them in Photoshop and just start getting creative. And obviously there are many influences you can pull from: typical EMS, ambulances; depending on which country you're in as well, they have different colors. So for me, I think by the time I got to the red one, that was probably one of the later ones. And I don't know, I just really liked it. And the devil was in the detail. It was essentially having a two-tone red. There was a satin, there was a gloss. Then you had your polished metal frame of the canopy. We've got probably about 5% gold accents on the ship and just really went for that quality RSI feel, basically. And I did my pitch to Chris. I basically sent them all to Chris, but said which were my favorites, and the red one won out. So, yeah, I was very happy, because it kind of heavily pulls on recovery, like when you see those vehicles in the snow, avalanche rescue vehicles, that sort of stuff. And so it's really hinting at that side of things. And I think just the shape, just because of the complexity of the shapes that are in RSI, you can get away with just having that one block of color, because all the shapes are doing the breakup.

Jared HuckabyHost, Content Manager for Global Video Production

Well, there's a battle royale going on in Twitch chat right now while folks are calling out their favorites.

Paul JonesArt Director

I mean, there's a lot of good ones there. There's some that I like, and you never know. There's one for everyone, isn't there? So as we go along, we're sort of trying to do more of that, basically, to look at more options. Those were the ones that got released, you see. So those are the ones I was happy with. There was a whole bunch that I hated and they just got left.

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Published on this date.20 Jul 2018