Edge of Tomorrow: Art Department

Framestore's Art Department started work on Edge of Tomorrow in late 2011 on a mammoth 2-year project which saw them help design not just the soldiers, but also the Mimics: super fast, almost indescribable creatures with a tangle of tentacle-covered retractable limbs.

Initially working alongside the production art department they created visuals for the beach and beach landings, the design of the exosuit jackets and soldier uniform. The mimics took nearly the whole of post to finalise. Browse through a selection of original concept designs for the project:

Concept Design

Creature Design/Art Department

Visual Effects Supervisor

four mimic aliens ablaze on stormy waters

There were numerous references for our art department. Sculptures by Yong Ho Ji made out of old tyres was one, but “Resonance / Deus Ex Machina” by SR Partners is a video that came to embody the random and terrifying kinetics of the Mimics.

Jonathan Fawkner

VFX Supervisor

back view of a soldier in full body armour crouching in front of a giant mimic alien

a soldier in full body armour standing next to two large mimic aliens

We had a sort of arms race between the aliens and the soldiers, because if the aliens can move fast then the suits have to make the soldiers move fast too, otherwise why would they have built them?

Jonathan Fawkner

VFX Supervisor