Sins II Behind the Scenes: Pirate Galleon Concepts!

Avast ye scurvy dogs! Today I thought we could share pretty pictures of the concepting process for the Galleon, the Pirate’s newest unit featured in Pirate Incursions!

Players have been asking to see the beautiful concept art created by resident concept artist Mike Doscher for this plundering beast and now seemed like a great time to share.

“We want to introduce a more formidable unit for the pirates, a commander type unit. We're thinking a retrofit Akkan colony ship seems like a fun idea. The TEC colony capital ship is currently the weakest capital ship in the TEC fleet, so flipping that on its head and making a very tough version for the Pirates seems like a fun subversion of expectations.”

We knew this ship needed teeth…literally and figuratively! So we combined elements from the first set of options and the form of this retrofit unit took shape!

We went back and forth how prominent the forward-facing skull should be and how the armaments should look.

And we carefully considered how far to take the emissive elements of the unit, ultimately deciding this ship was meant to flaunt its power and visual flair dialed it up to 11!

And here we have the final concepts used for the full model:

Thanks for playing!