Neil Gaiman once said that the idea for his stories often begin as a seed. A singular isolated... thing. It could be anything really: a feeling, a piece of dialogue, a refrain from a song, a question. But it needed to be striking and memorable. Something that he could only exorcise by working on it until it was fully formed in reality.
CORALINE, for example, happened because he misspelled Caroline in a letter and paused, thinking, "Huh. Coraline. That almost looks like a real name."
For Kenneth Hite, author of NIGHT'S BLACK AGENTS, it was a blink-and-you-miss-it moment of imagining Jason Bourne holding a wooden stake instead of a magazine in a fight scene in THE BOURNE SUPREMACY.
So, here is my image. Done as a concept art piece in as part of a Photoshop class project, I couldn’t cast it aside afterwards. It is rough around the edges, far from complete, but… can you hear the noise? The hiss of coils and steam. Distant shouts as engineers and workers clear the pad.
In a crowded room, someone clears their throat. A woman with graying temples leans forward towards a mic.
“T Minus 10…”
CORALINE, for example, happened because he misspelled Caroline in a letter and paused, thinking, "Huh. Coraline. That almost looks like a real name."
For Kenneth Hite, author of NIGHT'S BLACK AGENTS, it was a blink-and-you-miss-it moment of imagining Jason Bourne holding a wooden stake instead of a magazine in a fight scene in THE BOURNE SUPREMACY.
So, here is my image. Done as a concept art piece in as part of a Photoshop class project, I couldn’t cast it aside afterwards. It is rough around the edges, far from complete, but… can you hear the noise? The hiss of coils and steam. Distant shouts as engineers and workers clear the pad.
In a crowded room, someone clears their throat. A woman with graying temples leans forward towards a mic.
“T Minus 10…”
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