Concept Art, armor, poster, robot, space, story, triumphant, yanick dusseault

Getting Ready for the Final Battle

This looks like the poster for an awesome science fiction film that we'd like to see: a girl in a giant hulking exoskeletal suit of armor with her comic-effect tiny little robotic pal perched on her shoulder. You've got evil signified by the pouring lava on the left hand side of the background, while fighters triumphantly scream past a proud city on the right. Whatever is happening here, we want to know more.

Sadly, it's not a movie poster. It's the personal creation of visual artist Yanick Dusseault, who provided concept art on GATTACA, 3D work on Titan AE, and painted matte paintings on everything from Star Wars to The Island. Somehow, he also manages to find time to work on an impressive array of his own personal artwork (like this piece), which can be seen at his website.

11:45 AM on Mon Apr 14 2008
By Kevin Kelly
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workingonyourinvoice at 12:11 PM on 04/14/08
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Awesome vehicle designs. Very cool stuff.
icelight at 12:11 PM on 04/14/08
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I have to say it looks like he may have been inspired the gorgeous (if slightly less digitally realistic) work of one of my favorite webcomics, Dresden Codak http://dresdencodak.com/cartoons/dc_021.htm The girl with goggles, the exoskeleton with feathers, the little robot friend (named Hob in the comic) the descending pillars of fire and explosions with ships overhead... While none of these are unique in themselves, for them all to appear in such close proximity in both is suspicious at best.
Nivair H. Gabriel at 12:12 PM on 04/14/08
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Yeah, this is totally awesome. Hello, new desktop background ...
Discrete-Daniel at 12:53 PM on 04/14/08
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@icelight: I didn't notice that at first, but you're right. The picture is very Dresden Codak-ish.

Dresden Codak would make an awesome movie.
Plague at 12:55 PM on 04/14/08
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Reminiscent of a ton of japanese artists working in graphix and manga, but that doesn't make them any less tasty.

Too bad I can't remember any of those artists name right now...
guibom at 02:01 PM on 04/14/08
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Girl in an exoskeleton == Metroid?!
twreckx at 02:02 PM on 04/14/08
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@Plague: The first thing that came to mind seeing these pics was the Anime Last Exile
Plague at 02:14 PM on 04/14/08
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@twreckx:
Sorta- but exile is a tad more steampunk
Plague at 02:22 PM on 04/14/08
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Okay, it reminds me of Maya Miyazaki or Eito minus the hentai plus CGI.
valarmorghulis at 02:22 PM on 04/14/08
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This kinda reminds me of the armor style for the upcomming Huxley MMOFPS game.
Dark4eons at 03:55 PM on 04/14/08
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Is there any place where I might find this awesome image in a 1920x1200 format because it'd make a killer wallpaper ;)
botanicidal at 04:38 PM on 04/14/08
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that chick has awesome nostrils. Oh yeah, and the image is fab.
Skeller at 07:37 PM on 04/14/08
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I'm more interested in the one on his site with the robots with chainsaws and branches tied to their heads. That's got something going on.
BSAKat at 08:55 PM on 04/14/08
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Looks like she's wearing Warcaster armor and that little bugger on her shoulder is a servitor.
ndgmtlcd at 12:49 AM on 04/15/08
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If you're thinking of a cute space suited girl with a robot sidekick then Jake Parker's Lucy Nova (Agent 44) predates Aaron Diaz's Kimiko (in Dresden Codak) by several years. But the style here makes me think of the more futuristic paintings of Robert T. McCall (aka Bob McCall) who did the posters for 2001, concept art for ST:TMP, murals for NASA, and tons of SF paintings that look like movie posters but aren't.
Benjo at 10:20 AM on 04/15/08
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@Nivair: Nice work, this is really great.
t3chg1rl at 10:10 PM on 04/15/08
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And she's wearing goggles! I vote that someone should write a story based on this picture, and then it should be made into a movie. <3
themysteriousx at 12:20 AM on 04/16/08
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Why are we presuming that the character is a girl? Outside of pre-existing potential reference points, it could be a dude.

Personally, I think it is one of the brothers from Hanson. Or it might be Gunter Nelson.