*idly looking at Narnia concept art*

[bedlamsbard]

Dude, this (it is the third one down on the far left) is, like, version "Peter is badass and Aslan is about to eat his head."

Cair Paravel, in all her Golden Age glory. (I am ninety-nine percent sure this is the one from the film, too; there are a couple other versions here, but this is the one they used.) Which is cool, because this is the only time we ever see the entirety of the palace. And damn, but it's big.

Alternate Cair Paravel, this time with the city below. And the harbor. The palace isn't quite right, but it's nearly so. That might have been what Warsverse Cair Paravel looked like at the end of the Golden Age, only add about a hundred ships in the harbor.

The sacrifice. PRETTY. Isn't the firelight gorgeous.

I have no idea who this is, but isn't it pretty?

Mongol centaur? Huh. Maybe I'll play with that later on in Dust, actually.

Roman centaur. This is probably the kind of sketch Tirian used to find in his history books.

Alternate ruins in front of the How. Makes it look more like an abandoned military fortification.

Another Alternate dueling ground, again with the abandoned military fortification, only a different kind this time. I rather like the shrine feeling that we got in the movie, to be honest. (Brought it up in Dust. Must play with the concept.)

Beruna, back when it was still a How and not just a hastily built bridge.

Telmarine town. I just really like this sketch.

Another Telmarine town (city?). I just think it's gorgeous, for some reason.

Caspian's escape. Pretty!

The River God. This artist -- Justin Sweet -- is just pretty.

Wild Narnians. Just...oh my God. This is...creepy.

The Telmarines and Miraz. Beautiful, but again with the creepy.

Comments

[lazaefair.livejournal.com]

I admit I did like the Mediterranean/Spanish interpretation of the Telmarines that they went with in the movie. It was a nice extrapolation from their Earth pirate ancestry. I have to wonder how they got from a couple of pirates and Polynesian women to a full-blown civilization/empire.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

The good old "conquer the natives with our superior fire power" method, I'd bet. Because if they did start out with firearms, that might have given them enough of a chance that they'd be able to get allies, depending on what was going on around them, especially if they landed in a country with a lot of turmoil one way or another.

[westingturtle.livejournal.com]

These are preeeeeetty.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Aren't they just, though? And there is more pretty; the artists' main pages are linked from the individual pictures.

[animus-wyrmis.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, pretty!

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Isn't it? GORGEOUS.