Concept art : Prologue - May 2016- We Were Tomorrow
About the Concept : Imagine a world where an asteroid has collided with our moon, half of the only planet in our solar system fit for human habitation has become trapped in eternal sunlight and the other half plunged into bitter cold darkness.... Seven immortal Alchemists ( I don't know so don't ask ) attempt to salvage humanity by relocating a group of individuals to a parallel version of Earth; -- The multiverse is a series of parallel universes in many of the science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories written by Michael Moorcock. (Many other fictional settings also have the concept of a multiverse but he got there first. ) I myself learned the alternate reality concept from MARVELTM comics Uatu the Watcher who resided in the mysterious blue area of the moon, but I digress.... The Alchemists bestow those chosen and their progeny with three lifetimes ( again I don't know how this works ) to rebuild hu-mankind, but rebellion swiftly divides the group and after several centuries of war, the Alchemists select several young people, including twin siblings, Noah and Evelyn Reeves, to return to Earth a year before the meteor hit. the pair navigate through their three lifetimes to unearth the truth about their destiny with Warrick and Siena, but their efforts to flee the dying world become complicated when Cain, an immortal, decides to hunt them down... I had less information than listed above to create a series of concept renderings for this Australian made TV series ( see artwork within this panel ) and its evolution into a Chinese Film production ( see below )
"China, 285 B.C. - After uncovering the mystical Luopan of Anatta, a Taoist monk ( 道士) journeys through history to find the two siblings that hold the key to protecting mankind from Armageddon." - Taoism has influenced Chinese alchemy (especially neidan), Chinese astrology, Chan (Zen) Buddhism, several martial arts, traditional Chinese medicine, feng shui, and many styles of qigong have been intertwined with the Tao throughout history. but i have a little problem with the east/westt colision between "the way" and the plain of Megiddo...meh-
I was to just "come up with ideas (not finished art)" so another designer could do a chinese version ( due to language and cultural barriers...). The Film Production was to have more "Holy Crap!! Let me throw money at this project" imagery, again I really had no idea outside of some photos from the already made TV show. The 'Magic gold steam-punk pocket watch multiverse jumping device' looked groovy so I went with that as a central motif and the glyphs are based on a tattoo the 'baddie" had etched into his forearm.
To add an extra level of visual omplexity to the artwork I used a Metatron's Cube to expand the earlier neon glyph imagery. Metatron's Cube is a two-dimensional geometric figure created from 13 equal circles with lines from the center of each circle extending out to the centers of the other 12 circles, the Kabbalistic mythology behind Metatron is "one who metes out or marks off a place, a divider and fixer of boundaries", "a measurer" so that kinda works with the alternate universe maestrom thingy, plus the cube's simple repetition looks cool. Fragments from the concept art survived into the Chinese pre production poster art.
Medium : Digital illustrations : 115 cm in height @300dpi created in Adobe Photoshop 2017 Concept Information : The Moon's South Pole–Aitken basin is an impact crater on the far side of the Moon. At roughly 2,500 km (1,600 mi) in diameter and 13 km (8.1 mi) deep, it is one of the largest known impact craters in our Solar System. It is the largest, oldest, and deepest basin recognized on the Moon. It was named for two features on opposing sides: the crater Aitken on the northern end and the lunar south pole at the other end. The outer rim of this basin can be seen from Earth as a huge chain of mountains located on the Moon's southern limb, sometimes informally called "Leibnitz mountains". Simulations of near vertical impacts show that this basin should have dug up vast amounts of mantle materials from depths as great as 200 km below the surface. However, observations thus far do not favor a mantle composition for this basin, and crustal thickness maps seem to indicate the presence of about 10 kilometers of crustal materials beneath this basin's floor. This has suggested to some that the basin was not formed by a typical high-velocity impact, but may instead have been formed by a low-velocity projectile around 200 km in diameter that hit at a low angle (about 30 degrees or less), and hence did not dig very deeply into the Moon. Putative evidence for this comes from the high elevations north-east of the rim of the South Pole–Aitken basin that might represent ejecta from such an oblique impact. The impact theory would also account for magnetic anomalies on the moon. If the Earth stopped spinning, most of this glorious life sustaining planet would rapidly become incredibly inhospitable.
50 percent of the planet would almost continuously face the heat of the Sun, while the other half would face the cold of space.
Life could continue in a narrow twilight zone between the hot and cold halves. But this twilight zone would slowly creep around the planet over the period of a year, as the Earth performs its annual orbital dance around the Sun.
Let's pretend the oceans don't freeze on the cold side, or evaporate on the hot side, looking only at centrifugal / centripetal force.
This force, which effectively pushes outwards, has made the planet distended at it's middle. The diameter of the Earth measured through the equator is today about 21.4 kilometres more than the diameter of the Earth measured through the poles.
The solid matter has moved in response to the outward force caused by the spin of the planet.
But the liquid water in the oceans is far more mobile and responsive to forces. So the Earth's spin has pushed up this liquid water to an 'abnormal' elevation of about eight kilometres.
Sooo, at the equator, thanks to this spinning spheroid we call home, the water has been pushed up some eight kilometres higher than in the case of the Earth having no spin.
But today, on the entire equator, the deepest part of the oceans is only about 5.75 kilometres.
So take away the spin and you take away all water at the equator.
If the Earth were to stop spinning on its axis, gradually the oceans would migrate towards the poles from the equator. At first, only small regions of terra firma around the equatorial region would rise out of the retreating waters.
Eventually, there would be a huge mega-continent wrapped continuously around the Earth at the equator. You could travel around the Earth on the equator and stay entirely on dry land—ignoring the freezing cold on the night side, and the searing heat on the day side.
The water that left the equatorial regions would have to go somewhere, and that 'somewhere' would be the poles. There would be two totally disconnected polar oceans on each side of the equatorial mega-continent.
In the north, Canada would be entirely submerged. And roughly following the line of the border of current-day USA and Canada, all of Greenland, as well as the northern plains of Siberia, Asia and Europe would be underwater. Spain would mostly stay above water.
I was to just "come up with ideas (not finished art)" so another designer could do a chinese version ( due to language and cultural barriers...). The Film Production was to have more "Holy Crap!! Let me throw money at this project" imagery, again I really had no idea outside of some photos from the already made TV show. The 'Magic gold steam-punk pocket watch multiverse jumping device' looked groovy so I went with that as a central motif and the glyphs are based on a tattoo the 'baddie" had etched into his forearm.
