Just hours away now, as Browncoats begin massing outside QMx’s website to get one of the limited edition sets of official Serenity blueprints, it’s time to talk to two of the people behind them.
The blueprints, 10 18″x24″ full-color and insanely detailed pages, were carefully crafted by Geoffrey Mandel (graphic designer for the movie) and Tim Earls (who created the original drawings of the ship for the TV show CG models and was set designer for the movie). An amazing amount of resources were tapped for this design including the original drawings, the CG models, the set blueprints, and thousands of screenshots to make sure that this was as close to canon as it could possibly be. Not only do these sheets finally determine where all the cabins are, where the crew keeps their drinking water, and where the heck all those doors lead to, they also include detailed views of the shuttles and mule.
These sheets — 10 blueprints and one “signature sheet” signed by Geoff and Tim, printed on heavy stock paper, are works of art and well worth framing, the definitive blueprints for our beloved little ship. I talked to Geoff and Andy Gore, director of Quantum Mechanix, about the whole shebang.
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Q: Tired of Serenity yet?
Geoff: Never! In fact, corresponding with you and the other Brain Trust members [note: the beta-test team] made me look forward to revisiting the Firefly DVDs (after a decent interval, of course). Going through all the photos and reference materials made me remember a lot of details from the movie set… such as the fact that the cargo barrels down in the hold were really rusty and disgusting.
Andy: Tired? Tired? Are you MAD?! Am I tired of my left arm? My right foot? A rainbow after a summer storm? ;-) Okay, no. You should *see* the list of Serenity-based projects I’ve submitted to the PD team for review. Don’t believe me? Ask Geoff. He’s working on all of them, right Geoff? ;-)
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After spending months building this 3-foot model of Serenity, from over 200 individual pieces of paper, this gentleman is selling her on eBay. It’s mounted to lightweight foamboard with pictures of the ship.
