Great work David! 
So great to see these concepts - thank you for sharing your work!
Awesome sculpts!!!
He rocks!
Fantastic stuff David ! Going to watch the movie tomorrow =)
Awesome! I loved the books when I was a teenager and can’t wait to see the movie, especially after seeing your work on it. So glad it finally made it to the big screen after so many years and I want to thank you for sharing your fine work.
cool models bro,
Thank you for sharing David! This is an amazing work!!!
“After these were approved they went off to Legacy Effects and other talented artists on the show who took them further and made them sing!”
Is that how it happened?
Wow, history is a funny thing…
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Wow…these are amazing! Love the rake textures on your design sculpts!
Man, what a dream project. Love your work. As always
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Thanks guys. Looking at these now is a little embarrassing, compared to the great stuff that other artists did. But, I need to remind myself that these were only quick designs to see if the drawings worked in 3D and to experiment with anatomy and shapes.
In 2008 raking was all the rage…
I just saw the John Carter Art Book this evening. There are great sculpts in there!
Also, GO SEE THE MOVIE!!! I loved it!
While I’m at it, here are some Woolas from the Favreau version.
John wanted Woola to look like a nasty animal that could hunt down and kill you. John Carter’s empathy for animals is what tames him. The Zbrush model was done (again, very quickly) in 2.5 mainly as a means to build a clay sculpture from Remember multi-markers?
There is also an Orthographic of the ZBrush model that I did the clay sculpt from the first posting for. I forgot to include it.
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Awesome Sculpts!
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If what you are responding to is that my ill-worded sentence makes what Legacy did seem like an afterthought in the process THAT WAS NOT MY INTENT.
If it is about something else let me know.
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I absolutely love what you did with woola but… can I ask you why in the world you designed the green martians that skinny?
In the books they are described as brutes 4 meters tall! Wearing 30 feet lances on their massive rides!
when I first saw them in the trailer it was very disappointing 
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I didn’t design them that way. It was what Andrew and Mark Andrews wanted, and Iain McCaig ( who also liked them skinny) drew them as such. Speaking for only what I know of the decisions, they wanted them to be like Massai. Making them so skinny avoided the look of a man in a suit. Also, Andrew loved the Michael Whelan covers growing up as a kid.
I believe the decrease in size had to do with the problems of filming something 15 feet tall. Especially when you want to have your hero and the Tharks on film at the same time. It was really hard to get both of their faces together without framing it wider. From my own point of view, it was to avoid having a lot of Thark groins in the frame when they were standing next to humans. Legacy did a life sized print of their model, and since I was storyboarding on the movie I took a bunch of snapshots of it with my fellow board artists to see how you could frame them together. 15 feet would have been really hard to do. I’m sure there were many other reasons: no decision was considered lightly.
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Ok I understand the reasons, tnx for explaining them.
But still… it’s clashing with the mental image I’ve got of that race
I hope the movie is going to be good!
Nicedesigns,working with Iain should be great,i will go watch the movie tomorrow for sure,need to order the artbook soon
Wow!! congrats on your designs getting into the film!! It is pretty cool too!
Hey David.
Nothing to be embarrassed about mate.
These are great, your stuff continues to inspire me.
You truly are one talented individual.
All the best.
Cesar Dacol Jr.