Concept artist Ben Mauro (Elysium, Ender’s Game, The Hobbit) updated his website with amazing concept art he did for Luc Besson’s ‘Lucy.’ Check out Mauro’s website to see more concept art and to read the descriptions of each artwork.

Had the huge pleasure and honor to work with Luc Besson again on his recent film LUCY, helping him visualize a lot of the more cerebral portions of his script. Was fun to work with him early on to develop and visualize the future computers seen at the end and visualize some other really out there ideas. One of the first big projects to come out finally working as an independent directly with the client/director, was fun to go on set, see our names in the credits as ourselves and be able to post our work with no hassle…… amazing! 🙂

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At one point in the script towards the end when Lucy is almost at 100% potential, we see through her eyes again at how she sees the world around her. This was visualizing what one of the scientists looks like through her eyes. One of the starting points Luc asked for was thinking about things like the solar flare tendrils on the sun, so i started with that and branched off into other visualizations, keeping mind the human vascular system and how fluids flow through the human body, trying to integrate things like galaxy and nebula patterns and other directions ignoring that for something a bit more ‘stylized’. Extremely fun assignment to do, was bummed when i saw that it got cut, but at least you can see a bit of the explorations into what could have been for that scene.

Luc wanted this to be the equivalent to the moment in the Matrix where Neo can now see the code of the digital world around him, but what if LUCY could see the natural/real world at an even deeper level and understand and feel everything around her at a micro and macro scale, what if she could see the atomic/cellular activity of a human being, the magnetic fields/waves/energies that pulse and flow around/in/out of us and connect us to others, the cellular and radio waves in the air, everything…………..what would THAT look like?