Ash Thorp

Ash Thorp Instagram – Thank you all for the overwhelmingly positive response!!! It’s a bit surreal as I mentioned in the last post how much this all means to me personally and how important this is. I got a chance to finally watch the film in all of its glory and it delivers!!! My enormous respect goes out to @mattreevesla , @greigfraser_dp , @jchinlund and the entire team for their incredible contribution to the batman franchise. I honestly got a bit emotional when the scenes unfolded…it was so visceral and overwhelming. Truly thankful to be apart of this amazing project. Here are a few front angle renders I did of the last few files before I sent them back to the amazing design/production team working at Warner Brothers. If you look closely you can see some differences between my last design and the final that made it into the film, mainly the two extra ram rod bars that come out over the bumper. For this front bumper concept I liked the idea of having high tension type metal (tungsten/steel) riveted to the front to create a lighter inner structure but extremely hard exterior. A theme I tried to push through on almost the entire project mimicking the inner workings of Bruce himself (the vehicle is him and he is the vehicle thematically). All in all I produced 11 passes on designs until we got to this point. With such an iconic piece of movie history we needed to make sure it was right and make sure it would live up to the legacy of icons that have been produced before. When James first hired me I was a bit nervous being such a fan of Batman myself but once James gave me the brief and told me a little bit about what this version of Batman would be I could see what the Batmoblie design needed almost immediately and got right to work. It was and still is such a visceral experience being apart of all this and I’m just so thankful and humbled by the amazing work that everyone put in on the project. Truly blessed 🙂
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Additional Design Production team – @benjamin_last , @coliewertz , Haisu Wang, Daniel Frank, Patrick Dunn Baker, Dominic Tuohy, Joe Hiura.
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If you haven’t seen the film I HIGHLY recommend 🙂 #thebatman #batman #batmobile #vehicledesign #gotham | Posted on 07/Mar/2022 02:53:17