When an idiot like me sits there and says, "Hey, that reminds me of the Gunstar" and whatnot, how do you take that? Is that insulting?
TL;DRMartin says being compared to the Gunstar isn't insulting but a compliment, since he loved that movie as a kid, and designs draw on shared inspirations.
I will tell you absolutely honestly that it is not insulting in any way. In fact, it's a compliment, to think that I was a kid watching that movie back when it came out in like '84, and to sit here now and have someone go, hey, that's kind of like the... then I think that connects me to that project. And when you're a kid watching that movie, you can only dream that one day you'll be able to work in entertainment and get to do spaceships for a living. And then to be here now and to be talking about that stuff, it's nothing but good.
Yeah, I didn't want it to seem like you have no original ideas in your head. It's a shared inspiration. You tap into those things that inspire all of us and make us excited about this stuff.
It's kind of like when you're on a movie and they say, okay, you're doing the space helmet, but we need to do something that we've never seen before, but it should have a face plate so we can see the actor, some kind of covering at the top, and then two ear sides that feel like they are receiving audio. And you go, okay, you just described a space helmet. Right? So, of course, a ship design is going to feel like this or it's going to feel like that. What you want to do is you want to really put your design love into it and all your inspiration from all your sources and try to do your best work.