What are you working on right now as far as vehicle concepts?
TL;DROne artist is doing vertical slices of different Pioneer interior areas, so production artists have solid references, since concepts never fully map every interior and bigger ships can't be fully worked out.
I'm doing a vertical slice for different areas of the interiors of the Pioneer, to understand better how the Pioneer works, what rules it should follow in production, and how to help the production guys towards the final art.
So this is a common misconception I see. When we do a ship concept, not every single area of the interior is fully mapped out, is fully figured out. We do enough to get an idea, enough to get a concept of it and understand what it is, but after that's done and before it goes into production, you guys have to then go back and revisit and flesh out all of these major internal areas that are never seen. So that's what you're doing with the Pioneer.
Yes, we do this mostly for old concepts. We're trying to fix it with the internal team right now. Smaller ships, of course, allow us to dedicate some time to fully understand interiors. We did this with the Syulen. But bigger ships need a vertical slice. So we try to pick the types of room that are most different from each other and figure them out, so that the 3D artists have a solid reference to translate to the other areas that we don't have the time to work on.