Concept Art for Imagi's GATCHAMAN by Charlie Wen
Spotted these on my FB-stream (Thanks to Felix Ip!) of concept art for Imagi’s "Gatchaman" animated film (which never premiered, alas).
Featuring art and design by Charlie Wen (Visual Creator of KRATOS, CEO/Founder TENSKY Ent; xHead/coFounder of Visual Development @MARVELSTUDIOS) whom you can track more of his art on Instagram @imcharliewen.
"#gatchaman concept art of G1 that I designed for Imagi Studio's 3rd animated film. G1 (Mark or Ken depending on which version you saw) was the fearless leader of the Science Ninja Team, aka G-Force. He was the one that I'd be role-playing as when I was a kid ;)..." (Text via @imcharliewen)
"#gatchaman concept art of G2 that I designed for Imagi Studio's 3rd animated film. G2 (Jason) was the second in command of the G-Force team. He was was always the bad boy of the group, pretty much opposite of G1 (Ken or Mark);). The story followed Jason's arc, so he was the first character I focused on..." (description via @imcharliewen )
I had featured it extensively on the blog (2007-2010), with the above poster image first featured on the blog in 2007 too! Such awesome memories for a project that never had a chance for us to geek over the finished version ... at one point Hot Toys also announced to make the toys too! Now THAT I would've loved to see the prototypes of, IMO :)
