Grant Major On Green Lantern Character Designs

Being able to design all the different members of the Green Lantern Corps is probably the coolest and most tedious job involved with the movie. You have to create something from scratch that hordes of fans love while making it look fresh and original to the general public. In the latest issue of Toyfare magazine Production Designer Grant Major talks about the task of creating these beloved characters:

"It's a challenge to come up with stuff that's new, and I tried not to look at too much science fiction artwork, because you can end up channeling that without even realizing it. So the source of most of our ideas came from nature, in terms of the creatures we produced -- looking at the more bizarre kind of environments and aspects on the Earth. Like deep-sea things, and places that have these extraordinary primal things going on.

"We'd just cruise around looking for inspiration and pictures, and you'd think, 'Well, what if this place is just kind of all fibrous and broken like a broken tree?' Of course you have to keep it in the bounds of believability, so the audience has to recognize the places as being real, and they have to have something to hook onto."

 Daily Blam has a few more excerpts from the article.