From wetanz.com: Says Weta Designer Christian Pearce, who elaborates on today's Kongcept artwork, affectionately titled "Fast Claw". Oh Bless. Christian elaborates on his love affair with the little monsters: "I love crabs. Little walking tanks! Jebus Almighty even saw fit to give me one as a star sign. Greg [Broadmore] and I tried all kinds of ways to get them into that film, including some pretty drastic script re-writes, and this was one of the few successful applicants. "This was kind of a final breakdown of how this guy would work in the film. He turned out pretty much like this, but I think they coloured him in." [More]

From wetanz.com: Today's Kongcept art comes from Designer Stephen Crowe, who will be blitzing our WetaNZ Forums tomorrow. Stephen explains: "Another giant bug for the ravine scene - I liked the grotesque aspect of an oversized, ambulating insect with tiny vestigial wings that vibrated and buzzed madly when it got excited. "This thing would wander around in the near dark at the bottom of the ravine, feeling around for soft bodied prey disabled by the fall from above, it's vaguely iridescent carapace glistening in patches of dim light." [More]

From wetanz.com: Warning: today's Kongcept art from Designer Greg Broadmore "sounds disgusting but is absolutely no more crazy than many real behaviours in the insect kingdom". Intrigued? Read on! Greg elaborates: "This was one of a salvo of flying insect designs we did where the brief was to come up with over sized, terrifying super insects that would infest the island and add to the worlds intensity, detail and danger. We where always trying to make these things as gross as possible so this one has an idea that surfaced a few times of eggs on it's carapace. "The concept was that they were laid by the female on the male and they would in the end use Dad as a food source after hatching upon him. That sounds disgusting but is absolutely no more crazy than many real behaviours in the insect kingdom. From an artistic point of view, this was a real learning experience as I had to go from in reality, knowing very little about the actual physiological structure of an insect, to delivering a believable but fantastic insect design in no time flat. "We work pretty fast on creature design like this, maybe doing 3 to 5 designs in a day, so that was a real whirlwind of research, and rendering." [More]

From wetanz.com: Today's Kongcept artwork comes from Greg Broadmore, who created a Mr "Angry at the World" Dino for Peter Jackson's King Kong. Greg explains how this illustration came about: "This illustration was relatively late in the design process and was actually for what ended up being the quadrupedal crocodile like reptile that attacks Anne in the log: 'Foetodon'. "At the time we had no idea of the nature of the scene that this creature would appear in, all we knew was that it had to be a new dinosaur. Although we quickly found out that this would be a quadruped, at this point anything was open. I did this guy as a medium to large sized therapod but with a slightly more upright and so 'classic' dinosaur posture. It has huge blades as it's front claws. "I really enjoyed getting to just make up a dinosaur, I do that anyway for fun, so this was just a great opportunity to have fun with design. I really got into the weight and texture of the skin, I love doing that stuff." [More]