Miner 75
Short Film Design
2019-2020
Through text and images the design and considerations of Miner 75 is detailed as follows. Special thanks to Colter Wehmeier for design consultation.
In 1896 as the US Government was surveying new land aquisitions it stumbled upon a mysterious Resource thriving in the desert. It was noted that the Resource had begun to consume local homesteads and flora. Immenently the US Government established the Bureau of Intangible Resources to manage and contain the affected land.
Short Film Design
2019-2020
Through text and images the design and considerations of Miner 75 is detailed as follows. Special thanks to Colter Wehmeier for design consultation.
In 1896 as the US Government was surveying new land aquisitions it stumbled upon a mysterious Resource thriving in the desert. It was noted that the Resource had begun to consume local homesteads and flora. Immenently the US Government established the Bureau of Intangible Resources to manage and contain the affected land.
"The resource behaves a bit like lava. as fresh material is exposed to the open air, it off-gasses like smoke. it flows in vinelike shapes towards things it can corrupt, stretching like conduit. where resource sits exposed, it begins to harden into a chalky hard surface. When a vine touches a tool, it gets very excited, as if plugging into a battery. it latches and spreads on the surface of a tool curiously like an octopus. once it understands the capacity of a tool, it then modifies it to enchance its characteristics and function."
Once the BIR realized the resource was alive and curious about the world, it took preventative measures to impose control over it. In the early 20th century, a technician with a degaussing gun realized electrical field charges would stifle the resource, preventing its vining and corruption behaviors. With further experimentation the BIR found that through a carefully governed degaussing process they were able to refine the Resource into various types of matter. These experiments eventually led to the creation of the atomic bomb. For decades the BIR continued this process to develop numerous military technologies maintaining the US’s position as a world superpower.
Concept Design and Art
2019-2020
