Sentient Insect Spaceships

Here are some sentient insect vehicles for a 1980s video game.

I looked through lots of photos of insects, trying to dream up different ways to use the body plan of a beetle or a fly as a starting point.



A vehicle has a lot of the same features as a natural creature—optical sensors, landing gear, external armor, wings and wing covers, fuel intake tubes, and weapons systems.



The goal was to give them a personality. I comparing them to a dog with wagging tail or a pesky housefly.

  More on creating concept art in my book Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn't Exist.