An Itty Bitty Picture of Ramandu’s Island Concept Art

Posted November 21, 2009 11:17 pm by fantasia_kitty

Ramandu's Island Concept Art

Ramandu's Island Concept Art

Mirko Grillini, whose blog we reported on a couple days ago, has added a few more entries about his time on The Voyage of the Dawn Treader set. In an entry where he talks about makeup and hair, you can see a small picture of some concept art that is labeled “Ramandu’s Island” at the top. There it is on the right, though it’s a bit hard to make out because it’s so small. But it appears to be a rather tall and rocky island with lots of waterfalls pouring off of it. Beautiful!

Oh, and if you haven’t taken the time to actually read through Mirko Grillini’s blogs, you should definitely do so, they’re very interesting.

Thanks to icarus for the find!

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General Movie Discussion | Ramandu Island Concept Art (?) !

For the second day in a row, good old Mirko Grillini has come through with some cool stuff on his blog. Today, he has added like 4 or 5 new entires, one of which contains a photo, of which in the background contains the following image:



You should just be able to make out along the top the words "Ramandu Island". Admittedly its very small, but we've had hardly any concept art to look at for this movie so far, and have been somewhat starved of recent news in the past few weeks, so hopefully Mr Grillini can keep on delivering Image

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Statistics : Posted by icarus • on Nov 19, 2009 12:20 pm • Replies 9 • Views 161

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Hard to tell ... but looks awesome.

Statistics : Posted by spartan5 • on Nov 19, 2009 12:41 pm • Replies 9 • Views 161

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Looks Cool! Keep up the good work Mr Grillni! Image

Statistics : Posted by Benjamin • on Nov 19, 2009 12:46 pm • Replies 9 • Views 161

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I hope it's that pretty in movie, I love the waterfalls! Image

Statistics : Posted by 7chronicles • on Nov 19, 2009 1:06 pm • Replies 9 • Views 161

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And once again waiting to hear whether or not it's ok to post this one on the front page. Image Nice find again icarus! Love the waterfalls Image

Statistics : Posted by fantasia_kitty • on Nov 19, 2009 1:44 pm • Replies 9 • Views 161

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At first i thought perhaps it was for Dragon island, as the waterfalls do kind of match with part of the description for Dragon island in the book -

Dragon Island wrote:"The nearer cliffs, at each side of the bay, were streaked here and there with lines of white which everyone knew to be waterfalls, though at that distance they did not show any movement or make any noise


- and the first word on the title was kind of indistinct at first, but if you look closely you can make out the title quite well, perhaps not so much on the small cropped image i posted in the topic, but definitely on the full image on his site. The "R" at the begining and the "DU" at the end are the most easily seen.

Although concept art is notorious for being nothing like the finished product, seeing that image there does make me quite excited. I often get it into my head that VDT having a slightly lower budget than Prince Caspian is going to mean big sacrifices on some of the more spectacular visuals - but its things like this that remind me that even if its a "lower" budget, its still a massive expensive movie and the designers definitley arent thinking small or low-key. Hopefully shows that they wont be cutting corners on delivering an amazing visual spectacle - and lets face it, finally reaching the end of the world itself needs to be one incredibly amazing visual spectacle. I am quite confident they aren't going to disappoint on that! Image

Statistics : Posted by icarus • on Nov 19, 2009 3:31 pm • Replies 9 • Views 161

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icarus wrote:Although concept art is notorious for being nothing like the finished product, seeing that image there does make me quite excited. I often get it into my head that VDT having a slightly lower budget than Prince Caspian is going to mean big sacrifices on some of the more spectacular visuals - but its things like this that remind me that even if its a "lower" budget, its still a massive expensive movie and the designers definitley arent thinking small or low-key. Hopefully shows that they wont be cutting corners on delivering an amazing visual spectacle - and lets face it, finally reaching the end of the world itself needs to be one incredibly amazing visual spectacle. I am quite confident they aren't going to disappoint on that! Image


Well put, icarus. VDT still has a big budget and some shots that look impressive and expensive may not be as expensive as they look. I'm sure VDT will have the proper scale and scope to it as befits the story.

I remember Michael Apted on the Amazing Grace commentary saying that that film needed to open up at a certain point and some scale added, which it was. It would appear to me that he has a good grasp of when things need to be larger or more impressive looking. And I know the imagery at the end of the world will need that kind of look.

As far as Ramandu's Island goes, the picture is a little small but it does look somewhat striking, especially with the sunlight in the background. I believe that would be the point where the crew realizes the sun is actually larger than before.

Oh well, Mirko has some interesting blog posts. It would be nice to see some more concept art for the different islands sometime down the road. Image

Statistics : Posted by GlimGlum • on Nov 19, 2009 7:51 pm • Replies 9 • Views 161

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Very cool picture. As GlimGlum said I like the sunrise in the background. It really sets the mood of Ramandu's Island quite well. Admittedly the waterfalls surprised me at first but they look cool and sort of give the Island an un-natural feel to it. Something out of the ordinary which Ramandu's Island has to be.

Statistics : Posted by Watziznehm • on Nov 19, 2009 11:34 pm • Replies 9 • Views 161

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Oohhhh!!! Love it! Image

It looks so lush!

Statistics : Posted by Lark • on Nov 20, 2009 7:41 am • Replies 9 • Views 161

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The concept art is now on MundoNarnia.com ... and on AslansCountry.com. Image

Statistics : Posted by 220chrisTian • on Nov 21, 2009 3:20 pm • Replies 9 • Views 161

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