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What are we showing here [in this image]?

TL;DRThe image is a cathartic moment meant to show power, one of several pieces that set scene and atmosphere or act as a love letter to concept vehicles rather than just showing ship details.

Alberto PetronioVehicle Concept Artist

Just a cathartic moment, I guess.

Jared HuckabyHost, Community

Whose catharsis, Alberto? And what are you trying to get out?

Alberto PetronioVehicle Concept Artist

No, just to describe a moment of power.

Dan McCabeVehicle Artist

I remember when I first saw that picture in a meeting, I went straight to Alberto's desk and I was like, can I have that right now? And it's now my desktop background, because it's just so sick. I remember when you first showed it to me, I came over to your desk, and I think you talked about how it was kind of hiding in the asteroid belt and then it would pop out. And we talked a little bit about how in the Arctic you see these really large ships that are icebreaker ships. And it's just insane. That's a great picture for it.

Ben CurtisVehicle art

And I think that's one of the core things with the concept art as a whole. There's obviously things that we want to show to really show the details of the ship and what that ship's functionality and loadout and everything else is. But then there's also pieces that we want to do that just set the scene and set the atmosphere, and give an idea of the dream of what we're trying to achieve. So, yes, some of these pieces might be more art pieces than... I remember me and you had a big conversation about this. I'm not going to say it was a heated conversation, because it wasn't, but there's things that we wanted to show that really put this in our universe, and then there's things that we wanted to show that were kind of like a little love letter to concept vehicles as a whole, because this being almost the end of an era with concept vehicles, a lot of work went into it. And from a concept artist point of view, delivering those really cinematic shots at the end of a long period of working on it is kind of part of the payoff.

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Published on this date.24 May 2026
EpisodeArt & graphics