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Let's just talk about how the profile of the ship has changed. It was Michael Broussard who reconcepted the ship. What can you tell us, what can you remember about reconcepting the ship?

TL;DRThe ship was reconcepted to merge Consolidated Outland's flat-surface aesthetic from the Pioneer with the original's aggressive forward-pointing wings, giving a simpler, stronger shape that Elwin thinks looks fastest in flight.

Elwin Bachiller Jr.Lead Vehicle Artist, Los Angeles

Sure, so a lot of the design changes that we made to the aesthetics of the ship come down to the fact that the Pioneer sort of set in stone an aesthetic for Consolidated Outland, right? And a lot of the things that they did on that company, basically, it established that they use a lot of flat, big surfaces, right? So you don't have a lot of lines that change direction. You have a lot of flat surfaces with concentrated areas of detail in small chunks to help to shape the ship. And we wanted to merge that. And it's hard to do that on a ship this small because it's sort of a fighter. And we wanted to keep some of the aggressive feel that the original Mustang had, with the wings sort of pointing forward. It had this really aggressive feel. And so Michael did, I think, an amazing job really taking the new aesthetic of CNOU and applying that to the shapes of the original Mustang, giving it a really aggressive stance while also simplifying some of the surfaces. The original Mustang had the leading line on the wing change direction like three times. This one, it just does it twice. It's a much stronger shape. It's a more direct shape. It feels faster. In fact, it's my opinion that of all the ships, when this is in flight, it looks the fastest of all of them.

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Published on this date.17 Aug 2018