![]() ![]() "It’s more about the process than the final image - trying to work out how to illuminate things just enough that it still looks really dark and scary."īreese was actually in the process of moving houses when Folio got back in touch. "I had a lot of fun working out the colors," Breese says of the image above, which depicts a pair of velociraptors attacking an elevated sanctuary known as a high hide. A lot of people have commented on the little details I’ve added … but it’s literally there in the text. Crichton describes the characters and the dinosaurs and the scenery so perfectly. It was mainly trying to capture that mood with the lighting of the scenes and stuff like that more than anything. ![]() "It starts really light and happy and then gets really dark and scary. ![]() "The arc of the story feels like it mainly really happens over one 24-hour period," Breese adds. When John Hammond's ambitious experiment fell apart with disastrous results, Sorna was abandoned, allowing the dinosaurs that were left behind to multiply unchecked. Also known as "Site B," this is the island is where InGen actually bred - and briefly raised - the dinosaurs before moving them to the main theme park on Isla Nublar. The Lost World is centered around the chaos-obsessed mathematician, Ian Malcolm (Crichton retconned the character's death at the end of the first novel), who begrudgingly agrees to take part in a rescue mission on Isla Sorna. The keen fans have already noticed that she’s just in her socks. So, she’s not actually wearing shoes in that image because it was following that point where she’s come out of the river and is ambushed by these dinosaurs. "Talking about those fans and how detail-oriented they are, was that Sarah, the character, actually kicks her boots off when she goes over the side of the boat and she has to swim her way to safety or gets sucked into the island somewhat. Making sure we could draw Sarah, who’s quite different to the Sarah we see in the film," Breese continues. "That was a good compromise of pulling some of the activity out of the middle of the book, but still getting to draw it. Inspired by a moment that occurs near the middle of the book, the piece shows wildlife expert Sarah Harding (played in the movie version by Julianne Moore) avoiding a parade of dinosaurs by dangling from a tree branch without her shoes. While Breese couldn't get all of their suggestions into the final product, Folio did allow them to whip up an extra drawing that became a two-page title spread right inside of the front cover. I was putting in little notes or little scribbles every time I came to a moment I thought would look really good - and jotting down reasons for that as well." "I had that in mind as I was going through, just reading through the book over and over again. "We had to be a bit strategic because obviously, you want the pictures staggered pretty evenly throughout the book," Breese says. Head below to see what the images looked like in the nascent stages of the creative process and what they ultimately became once fully detailed and colored. The generous folks over at The Folio Society were kind enough to provide SYFY WIRE with an exclusive look behind-the-scenes at a number of early Vector That Fox sketches done for the project. "I got an email from them, saying, ‘Would you be open to the idea? We’re just sort of chasing the rights for it if you’re keen to do it.’ Obviously, I was very keen to do it and since the first book came out, it was nonstop people saying, ‘Please do The Lost World! Please do The Lost World!’" "I think it was literally a month afterwards," the illustrator recalls during a Zoom conversation with SYFY WIRE. Fan reception to the release was so positive, that Folio asked Breese if they were interested in crafting six more pieces for a collector's edition of the sequel. Jo Breese - a U.K.-based artist who goes by the professional title of Vector That Fox - faced a similar situation last year after illustrating a special hardcover edition of Crichton's dinosaur masterpiece for The Folio Society. Following the cultural and financial success of Steven Spielberg's film adaptation three years later, Crichton had no choice but to deliver a follow-up that became 1995's The Lost World. Shortly after the publication of Jurassic Parkin 1990, author Michael Crichton started to receive endless letters from readers, asking him if a sequel was in the cards. ![]()
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