Almost final designs for Max the robot. Eventually he got a different head.
Concept designs for Phoebe's robot friend, Max.
Concept designs for Phoebe's robot friend, Max.
Concepts for robots that might have lived in the Silver Six world.
Almost final designs for the kids in their silver "orphan" jumpsuits.
Craven's right hand man, Strick, often goes "undercover" in order to find and capture Phoebe.
Uniform designs for Craven's soldiers.
Originally, Craven's guards were going to be Social Services officers & their guns would launch an energy sphere around their captor.
Different uniform designs for the staff at the Social Services department.
Rough concept designs for some ships.
Unused designs for the Freedom Shuttle that the kids parent's use.
Concept designs for the City Bus and School Bus. The final designs remained the same in the book.
The original concept design for the Craven Probe and its different transformations.
Original designs for Craven vehicles, including the mining machine and the probe.
Designs for the beds that the children sleep in while at the Social Services department.
The many designs for the title on the books cover.
Even more designs for the title on the books cover.
Rough designs for the book's cover art.
Original unused and unseen test pages. These were created to help the publisher (and the creators) get a feel for what the story will look like.
Original unused and unseen test pages. The purpose was to get a feel for how Phoebe would interact with others in her world.
Original unused and unseen test pages. The idea was to show an orphan boy trying to escape Social Services.
Original unused and unseen test pages. The boy allowed Phoebe (and the reader) to witness what happens in this world to orphans.
Original unused and unseen test pages. These pages also helped figure out timing for scenes and how to show the action.
Original unused and unseen test pages. Getting a sense of scale and action.
Original unused and unseen test pages. Here we see the unused weapon of what was originally the social services officers.
Original unused and unseen test pages. These were created to help the publisher (and the creators) get a feel for what the story will look like.
Original unused and unseen test pages. Here is an unused ship design.
Original unused and unseen test pages. Here we get a good look how the "bubble gun" weapon actually worked.
Original unused and unseen test pages. These pages also helped set the stage of Phoebe's emotional turmoil.
The rough sketches for the original unused and unseen test pages.
Compiled completely into one image are ALL of the 189+ rough thumbnail sketches for the entire book.