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It's a very common shape you see all through sci-fi: when you've got a spaceship that has to manipulate something in close proximity and the pilot is facing forward, you end up with this. So it's definitely function meets form?

Paul JonesArt Director / Vehicle Concept Art Director, Foundry 42

Yeah, we've got so many things that we have to solve. There's only so many routes you can really go without it looking wacky. Yeah, we could do some really crazy stuff, but it's Drake. We've got a certain ethos that we're trying to continue with. Obviously there's nods to the Dragonfly with the twin pontoons. And actually, my initial inspiration came from one of our junior guys who's joined us called Shang Lam. He's got some great work on his website. So I was just like, okay, let's have a look at some ideas. So he'd got a ship there, twin pontoons. I was like, okay. And it just broke me out of the thinking, and then off we go. But when it's an industrial kind of vehicle, you reference JCB, Caterpillar, road-laying vehicles.

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Published on this date.15 Jun 2018