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The flight of the pelicans

Flight of the Pelicans
The last flight of battleship M/S Pelican. Heavily beaten but not down! 

This is a personal project of mine and I plan to continue adding stuff to this page, more in depth production concepts to expand the universe. Come back later for more!
I have been working on some suggestions for the small attack / escort ships. I want them to be amphific, to be able to land on water as I plan to have this story be set around a few islands in the ocean. I want a steampunk retro-futuristic WW1 feel to the aircrafts. So, steamdriven machines, and guns are very primitive, basically just normal rifles / machineguns mounted on the planes.. Nr 3 might just be too WW1 airplane feel to it, they need to have a special touch to their designs i think.
Another personal piece i did for my "Flight of the pelicans" project. I took suggestion nr 4 in my previous exploration on ships, and wanted to put it into a environment. 

Very Porco Rosso inspired, and a bit of Nausica with the aircraft. I love the idyllic italian archipelago setting in Porco Rosso. And subconsciously , it ended up looking a lot like an old game i worked on, Sinemora. 
This one was collaborated with the magnificent Hans "Hanzo"Steinbach, providing me with the foreground mechanic boy. Check out his other awesome character illustrations on his tumblr!


The flight of the pelicans
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The flight of the pelicans

Personal project in a steampunk war setting.

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