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April 6, 2013: Design your own Destiny! Let the Resurgence Art Department package be your guide!

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In advance of my official Days of Stargate Universe Past trip down memory, how about a little something to whet your appetite?  Ah, this takes me back!  The Resurgence Art Department package accompanied by visuals from various points in Stargate: Universe’s two-year run…

Resurgence - cover

Destiny corridors, areas & rooms
Destiny corridors, areas & rooms
Destiny corridors
Destiny corridors

The Gate Room…

Gate room - upper level
Gate room – upper level concept art
Gate room upper level - complete
Gate room upper level – complete
Looking out from the gate - concept art
Looking out from the gate – concept art
Looking out from the gate - completed set
Looking out from the gate – completed set
Central staircase
Central staircase
Gate room
Gate room
Gate room consoles
Gate room consoles

The control interface room…

Control interface room

Art Department
Art Department concept
At work in the core control room
At work in the core control room

The apple core…

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Carl figures it out
Carl figures it out
Kino room and Eli's quarters
Kino room and Eli’s quarters
Action in the kino room
Action in the kino room
Observation deck
Observation deck
The green screen view off the observation deck
The green screen view off the observation deck
Chloe's quarters
Chloe’s quarters
Wray's quarters
Wray’s quarters
Wray's artwork
Wray’s artwork
Varro's quarters
Varro’s quarters

In his quarters, Varro gets the red card for making the moves on Colonel Young’s ex:

Young's quarters
Young’s quarters
Stage 5 level 1
Stage 5 level 1
The Destiny mess - last day, final scene
The Destiny mess – last day, final scene
Destiny shuttle and corridor
Destiny shuttle and corridor
Under construction
Under construction
Coming along...
Coming along…
Look in to the shuttle from the corridor.
Look in to the shuttle from the corridor.

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Destiny infirmary
Destiny infirmary
Stage 5 level 2
Stage 5 level 2
Stage 6 layout
Stage 6 layout

So, there you go.  Everything you need (minus the construction material, equipment, manpower, and money) to build your very own Destiny!  Check in next week and let me know how it’s coming along.

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26 responses

  1. Thomas G. Avatar
    Thomas G.

    I was always very impress with the green screen observation deck shots. Feature film quality, and beautiful.

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  2. Lewis Avatar
    Lewis

    Hey, Joe!

    Okay, I’ve started the early construction phase of my own Destiny ship ..however both Lowe’s & Home Depot seem to be completely sold out of naquadah! Any suggestions?

    This isn’t going to be like the time when I built my own DeLorean w/ Flux Capacitor and had to steal some plutonium from Libyan terrorists just to get it running is it???

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  3. gforce Avatar
    gforce

    Love those art dept. prints and the designs for the various parts of the ship. Really cool. If I had that much money to spare I’d be using it to finance another season of SGU!

    Heading down in the Grand Canyon for four days starting tomorrow!! Should be fun.

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  4. Sparrow_hawk Avatar
    Sparrow_hawk

    Oooh. Very nice Thanks, Joe. Not sure it will fit in the back yard, though…

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  5. Angelus Avatar
    Angelus

    Wow, Those are some impressive schematics! I never even realized that the crew quarters and the observation deck were actually the same room. And now that I see it, The storage room does look oddly like a gateroom. Thanks for sharing Joe!

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  6. mamasue9 Avatar
    mamasue9

    Thank you for posting the schematics and photos of the SGU sets. It’s too bad the Destiny set was off limits in 2009 during the last set tours via Creation.

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  7. Tam Dixon Avatar
    Tam Dixon

    Those were fun to study. I’m impressed how the completed sets look so close to the concept. A lot of talented people worked on that set!

    How is Jelly? Hopefully, she is more comfortable.

    G’night all!

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  8. confracto Avatar
    confracto

    not everything you need.
    there is still plans and designs for all the little details for consoles and such.
    …I think I have a lot of them around here somewhere.
    drat, no UNIVERSE font on here.

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  9. shane calhoun Avatar
    shane calhoun

    What a great ship.

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  10. Ganymede Avatar
    Ganymede

    @LEWIS
    Try CANADIAN TIRE. — BTW, naquadah, it’s actually made from beaver-tail poutine, eh? 😀
    [Canuck humour]

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  11. PBMom Avatar
    PBMom

    My favorite is Mike’s red penalty card. How funny. The lighting shot of Destiny’s corridors is breathtaking. Looks like a light from heaven.

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  12. Ponytail Avatar
    Ponytail

    Awesome! The magic of television is really the hard work and skill of many.

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  13. cherluvya Avatar
    cherluvya

    There is a Destiny built on a site…along with an Atlantis and Stagate Command. I’ve stepped through all three gates, used the rings to transport and even have uniforms for my character in each place. It truly is a labor of love…and so spectacular! I’ve even taken a ride in a puddle jumper.

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  14. Patricia Stewart-Bertrand Avatar
    Patricia Stewart-Bertrand

    Joe, why does Louis Ferreira look like a Spanish Conquistador?

    I had the great pleasure to be permitted a set tour on the Destiny set courtesy of Jamil Walker Smith. You weren’t there. Were you hiding from me again? I swear, Joe, that restraining order was a mistake…

    Anyway, one of the things that truly impressed me was the detail in the set. The crew responsible for putting it together must be the best in the business. You can see that they really love their work. I am sure that the actors must have really enjoyed working there. I was also amazed at the staircase on either side of the gate. On screen, it does not look as steep as it is in reality. It looked almost like a ladder in steepness, and not something I was going to attempt to climb.

    We also were able to watch the armaments team fire off some squibs, the bullet bursts that are shown on screen. What an awesome job for people who like to blow up stuff. These guys also seemed to really enjoy their jobs.

    We had the great pleasure of meeting most of the cast in the series, but we also got to meet James Bamford, the Stunt and Fight Coordinator, John G. Lenic, who took us for a golf cart ride, and Andy Mikita, the Director Extraordinaire, who is now working with Lenic on a new show called Motive, who also happens to star the aforementioned Louis Ferreira. So glad that many of your alumni have found jobs elsewhere.

    So, if your American readers are missing the people who brought Stargate to television, shows like Motive, Continuum, Arrow, Arctic Air and Primevel New World, all from Vancouver, can accommodate them. They are all great shows, by the way.

    By the way, I won’t be building any Destiny sets in the near future. That is, not until I can get the cast and crew together to operate the Destiny in the way it should be controlled. Letters of request are ongoing. Yours will be in the mail this week. 😉

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  15. kevin Roberts Avatar
    kevin Roberts

    Cherluvya,….What site is that? I’m still devastated over Stargate Worlds geting cancelled…..I was hoping it would of been finished and even put on Consoles Systems, such as Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. It could’ve been updated as time goes along. With new stuff added like Destiny Missions and Crew, Stargate Atlantis City, Missions, Team, and everything that goes along with that show. Also the entire SGC, City of Atlantis, Daedalus, and Prometheus. With a complete game full of missions for space battles etc, with the Daedalus or Prometheus, or puddle jumpers and F302s. A complete online world or Universe reather. lol That could be updated with new missions and complete campaigns for just space battle junkies or home base junkies or all of the aboce. Where you could do a SGC camaign with SG-1 or your own team throughout the entire game or Atlantis team or Destiny team. You know. WHat ever you prefer. I’d of been grateful to pay 15 or 20 bucks for a new campaign to download into my Stargate Worlds Game! and so on over and over again. An entire Universe in a game. It could be a never ending game! That would be my one wish if i had it. lol One wish to change something in that scenerio. It wouldn’t of needed a show that was still running to make it. As many years and seasons that Stargate has under it’s belt, It would’ve and could’ve been bigger than Startrek etc. It deserves it’s own Game! And a Entire World Online Game at that! lol Sorry I get compassionate or nuts rather when i speak of such things lol

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  16. kabra Avatar
    kabra

    Love Wray’s Artwork! Let me know when it’s up for auction.

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  17. xxxevilgrinxxx Avatar
    xxxevilgrinxxx

    ah, my favorite place to be, now with more schematics 😀

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  18. sylvia Avatar
    sylvia

    sigh….all of these are sights to behold.
    thank you

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  19. dasndanger Avatar
    dasndanger

    Glad everyone enjoyed my anniversary story I posted yesterday. I have since been informed that it counts for not just our 23rd, but also our 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th AND 28th. 😛

    das

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  20. Bea Czogalla Avatar
    Bea Czogalla

    These are absolutely beautiful, Joe, thanks so much for posting them. For those of us that got outbid on every single auction it’s a lovely way to still have access to the layouts. Thanks again!

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  21. Crazy Goblin Avatar
    Crazy Goblin

    That is some great artwork, I really enjoyed this show.

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  22. Mike from Canada Avatar
    Mike from Canada

    You know I’ve started rewatching Stargate SG-1 (again) and I always notice how the show really starts to improve in season 2. By season 3 everything has really come together, the actors have become a team, the writing has gotten top notch, the sets and special effects are good. The music isn’t overdone, it’s hitting just the right highs and lows at just the right times. And everything continues to get better through the entire series.

    When I move on to Atlantis or Universe I can see the writing, sets, music start off high quality and then improve throughout their runs. I think all three series are examples of quality work and those involved have reason to be proud of their work.

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  23. Curt Avatar
    Curt

    Wow those take me back; so happy I was able to spend time on that amazingly cool set. Miss SGU a lot, but thankful you were able to do what you did. Thanks Joe!

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  24. TomPerys Avatar
    TomPerys

    Hi Joe and all SG fans, I was so sad of the whole cancelation thing and I missed (and still miss) SGU and Destiny so badly, that I decied to build my own Destiny ship. You can see progress on my page destiny-project ‘dot’ com

    PS: I hope SGU will return to us someday 🙂 Hopefully before I die 😀

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  25. Hassan Avatar
    Hassan

    Oh god how much I miss this show! 🙁
    Thanks for posting the pics.

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  26. STefan Avatar
    STefan

    LOVE & MISS SGU, and ” Destiny ”

    — But I try my best to make the old girl live on via the worlds largest Stargate props and set dec’ collection

    https://www.facebook.com/StargatePropShop/

    Reply

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