Oddworld feature film concept art
 

We have a delightful surprise for you guys today. Oddworld Inhabitants has very kindly shared with us two conceptual paintings by Raymond Swanland that have been produced for the Oddworld film. You will have to go to OddBlog to see them ;)

We would like to stress that it is far too early for Oddworld Inhabitants to talk about the film to the press or answer questions about these images in particular, and we suggest not bothering OWI with questions they can’t answer. However, they always welcome interest and mail from fans, for whom these paintings are a special treat.

May I be the first one to say: "Oh, crap!:eek:". Yes, this is a wonderful treat. Thanks, of course, to Oddworld Inhabitants.

What are in those ball cages?

Edit:
Never, mind, we'll just need to watch the movies.

Those are sleeping pods, mudokons sleep in them and are equiped with a tv screen (and maybe a brew machine too). You can see some concept art in The Art of Oddworld Book.

and I can't resist to link to this picture:
http://oddworldlibrary.net/archives/...=CAAO0014.jpg1

Early concept art, I'd say?

Um isn't this Rupture Farms in the movie? Brutal Slavery? No naptime? Or is this a 'documentary-like' film that show the general picture of Oddworld?

Edit:
Never mind. I guess we'll just have to watch the movie, won't we?

Oh. My. God. I almost cried when seeing these pictures. Thanks Raymond! :D And thanks for showing these Xav.

Wow, thank you to Oddworld Inhabitants and Oddblog. These are great, as always. I wonder if we'll see the Happy smiley face doors, those were cool.

It's pretty strange, Citizen Siege is in production, and we've seen one conceptual logo, but the Oddworld movie is far from it, and we've seen more.

Wow can't wait for the movie the pics look cool.

Oh my Shrykull! This is amazing!
Oddworld Inhabitants have just been shoveling out more and more brilliance this year.

At first glance, I thought it might have been Oddworld's representation of Office cubicles... Office sphericles. Then I read what you said about the sleeping pods and remembered it from the Art of Oddworld: First Ten Years.

Office Sphericles... Heh. I was kind of looking forward to an appearance of Chroniclers.

The big, glassy column behind the hanging cages looks like a block of offices to me. It’s probably where Molluck is standing.

The fact the Mudokon cells are hanging is quite intriguing. These seem to show that the movies should start near the roots of the original Oddworld story, perhaps following Abe's Oddysee, perhaps not.

Since the second pic shows Molluck, or perhaps another CEO Glukkon, standing within one of the glass towers, that seems to show these as offices or something similar. Perhaps an observatory to keep an eye on the Mudokons, with all the glass, as well as somewhere to hang out perhaps or whatever.

and like this
http://www6.plala.or.jp/atusiya/psc/abe16.JPG

How do they get there anyway? I see no lifts or anything.

So Raymond Swanland is still working for them? Sweet. I'm deeply surprised that they would release concept art of the Oddworld film now, since those are probably among the first pieces of it. Unless they are working on the Oddworld film as well as CS.

Anyway, I was surprised to see this at first. Obviousily Steven Old's art has been used (perhaps tampered with), so does that mean that the cages were suppose to be in AO? That would be awesome if they were accepted. I can't wait to see it on the big screen.

The next picture rather surprised me. So Glukkons actually watch the Mudokons. And Glukkons have offices like in MO. Intriguing... Can't wait to see that either.

I assume most of the time, Slig patrols are in there watching, as opposed to Glukkons. I suppose many a Glukkon would like to go and look at something like that within their factory, and chuckle to themselves on their wealth/power or something.

@looney-bin: If you look closely, there appears to be some sort of ridge or scaffolding or something behind the panels the Gluks stand on. I assume the panels themselves move around, perhaps up from down below somewhere, or down from up above.

Holy Cow! I can't wait for the movie to come out! And before Xavier posted those related pictures, I was just thinking about how much they looked like the production images from "Art of Oddworld: First Ten Years"...

Awesome!

I like to see that all the ideas from the first concept stages of AO are being revamped and that they might be in the movie. Hope the art keeps comming!!

*Looks at pics*
OMG nerdgasm!

Ooo, awesome! Concept art released so soon! And I thought they were sleeping pods, there's more details on that in the Art of Oddworld book. In fact, doesn't the second painting kinda remind you of the bottom-most slide in the second column on page 68 of AOOI?

Thanx OWI and thanx, oddblog Xav and Max. I know who's got a new wallpaper on his laptop!

I think the Glukkons would watch the muds because they enjoy watching their downfall and enslavement.

I almost cried as well when I saw that, and immediately recognized the pictures as being similar to pictures in The Art of Oddworld book.
It does seem strange that they're all ready planning that, but who's complaining?

Thanks for those pictures! :D

I like the glukkon one most. But they both look interesting.

Maybe that too :P

Though as Alcar said below, I think it would be more because of superiority as opposed to downfall, since they would have forgotten: if the Mudokons have, why not the Glukkons? For that matter, I think the Glukkons have forgotten about more of it than the Mudokons have...

After the hundreds (thousands?) of years that the Mudokons have been enslaved by the Glukkons, I believe that their sense of triumph over those who once claimed to be the 'Chosen Ones' would have been forgotten - and replaced with a 'God-given' sense of superiority.

I doubt that the Glukkons of the present even know of their spiritual past, and the 'schism' that occurred between the Mudokons. Much like the Mudokons have also forgotten this piece of their history.

Alcar...

Wow!

I have to say I've been a bit quiet recently mostly because I really was unsure as to whether OWI were still alive or not.

Citzen Siege just doens't seem to catch my attention in the same way Oddworld does.

But these new pictures just fill me with hope that an Oddworld movie is happening. Things are looking up!

*shrugs*

That may well be right. But I was always under the impression that the enslavement was more in the order of tens of years rather than hundreds, what with there still being some native, traditional muds living in places like Monsaic Lines.

Bullet Magnet approves of these images.

Sweet. Are these 'sleeping pods' supposed to be and Oddworld take on office cubicles?

Isn't it obvious? They're standing on lifts.