Fantastic Four: First Steps (2023) - Retro-Future car concept

One of my first tasks during my brief stint in early development of Fantastic Four: First Steps was to envision what cars of the retro future would look like. Even early on before Production Designer Kasra Farhani was brought on to do his exceptional work, the direction was to bring the chrome-finned concept-car fantasies of the 50's and 60's to life. I imagined a gyroscopically stabilized vehicle riding on one spherical traction wheel that would give it omni-directional movement and the feel of hover-cars without introducing anti-gravity technology to the world. The design was sculpted in zBrush and rendered in Keyshot using a licensed HDRI of the Ciudad de las Artes y de las Ciencias in Valencia, which I then painted over as a theoretical location extension with John Berkey-inspired architecture.