Even sitting still, I wanted the shape to feel like it was moving.
Eventually these characters needed a way to get around.
I wanted the Minkership to feel like a completely original vehicle while still carrying some of the 1960s retrofuturism that runs through the architecture and technology of the Minker-Verse. I didn’t want it to read completely as a plane or a traditional rocket ship.
Instead, it started becoming something almost organic.
While experimenting with animation, I began imagining the wings and outer structures moving subtly as it traveled — less like mechanical control surfaces and more like the appendages of an octopus or some strange ethereal creature.
Even sitting still, I wanted the shape to feel like it was moving.