THE HUNGER GAMES - THE DRONES
Here is some more of my work for ‘The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes’. The drones have been one of the bigger challenges for me throughout the project. It quickly became our template for the entire science fiction part of our world we were trying to build. Many of the rules we extrapolated from the design became the baseline for many more objects to come. A lot of trial and error was involved and a lot of bold attempts had to happen before we could lock in the final design we were happy with. Though there were definitely frustrating times, in hindsight I was super thankful to work on this prop. It made me feel like a true pioneer!
These were the very first sketches to start the discussion.
The first idea was to have a drone which resemble three helicopters with their rears tied together.
We went through many more silly versions before arriving at the first version we were somewhat happy with.
...Like this one.
We were taking a lot of clues from other everyday objects from the 50s.
It still needed to look like a prototype, because it had to imply that this was innovative technology in our world.
The scenes they were used in gave us the other parameters for our drones. They needed to be dangerous - and the viewer should easily understand how to take them out, just by looking at it.
We came up with different ways for them to work together, as they also had to achieve a lot of other tasks.