Does anyone remember if there was a shot in the movie from under the water, with the silhouette of Eustace-Dragon flying overhead? I saw one in the storyboards by Federico D'Allesandro and am curious whether they used the idea.

I remember there was a shot from overhead showing just the Dragon's shadow over the water, but I don't remember one from under it.

Update #15

Justin Sweet and Vance Kovacs have both updated their websites in the past month or so, and with it a few new pieces of Concept Art.

Vance Kovacs
I didn't have any VDT art saved for Kovacs before, so I would say all the VDT pieces at the link below are "new", starting at image number 27 and ending at 42 (the ones before and after that are from PC, some of which I think may be new to me also, but i'd have to check)

http://www.vancekovacs.com/galleries/film/narnia/

The most interesting pieces in his collection are #27 (im guessing a recently undragoned Eustace), #30 (the albatross), #40 (a sea-girl caught in the fishing net, a subplot hinted at in a lot of the other storyboards, etc) and several feature odd locations for the dawn treader to be in (such as a cave?) which also hint at previously removed subplots from the movie (LOTGK and the underworld etc)

Justin Sweet
The Justin Sweet pieces are a bit more mixed up in terms of order (VDT, PC and LWW art all figures here), and I have seen a few of the VDT ones before, but a few are new:

http://justinsweet.com/?page_id=480

The only real talking point amongst his VDT pieces is the one of lucy coming face-to-face with a giant white albatross in the darkness. Coupled with the Vance Kovacs piece of the Albatross I am guessing that was something that was originally going to feature much more prominently in the movie, rather than the blink-and-miss-it cameo we got in the finished thing.

Thanks, Narnian_Badger. I wonder if I just mistook what I saw!

Thanks for updating with these Icarus! The Vance Kovacs pieces are particularly interesting. I noticed several of his have the albatross (#29, #30, and #32). The Eustace ones are great - I like the concept of having him climb up the dead dragon to enter the cave (#33). Some of those locations are definitely wild - the World's End is certainly unique, as Kovacs imagined it. (#38)

I was looking at his PC concepts, too, and there are a couple pieces of sleeping dryads which are very interesting! (#6 and #8) I'm not sure how it would have worked in the movie, but I like the idea!

Also, Reepicheep with armor/cape looks very like a Redwaller.

Looking at Vance Kovacs' art right now. The PC artwork is great to look at. I just wish some of those scenes made it into the movie. Thought is #1 supposed to be the Lady of the Green Kirtle? I can't tell. In #26, is Aslan also bringing other forest animals to the Battle? Lucy's riding a moose, which I did not know could be ridden.

I love the visual style for the VDT pieces. It even seemed like some more scenes from the book would have been in the movie, I think I saw an undragoning one at the beginning. I think budget cuts prevented better visuals (and a different script). Reepicheep has armor in the last one, which I just like a lot.

*Update 16*

Some lovely pieces of VDT Concept Art from Brendan Heffernan:

http://www.brendanheffernan.com/Narnia- ... oncept-Art

plus some equally nice Prince Caspian concept art pieces:

http://www.brendanheffernan.com/Narnia- ... oncept-Art

http://www.brendanheffernan.com/Narnia- ... n-Drawings

Also, there are some new pieces on John Dickenson's website spread over three albums (most of the Narnia ones are labelled as such, but be careful not to get confused by the Snow White and Jack the Giant Killer concept art - some of them appear very Narnian!)

http://jdickensonart.com/galleryz/

http://jdickensonart.com/gallery-2/

http://jdickensonart.com/sketches-and-/

^ Geek-out!! Prince Cor statue!

It just amazes me how much detail goes into making these movies! It would have been sweet if the statue made it into PC.

Yes, it would have been. Prince Cor/Shasta might have been a lovely relic of post-Pevensie, pre-Telmarine history. But I think it could still be used as a detail for later films if possible, particularly the court of King Caspian X at the beginning of Silver Chair.

John Dickenson's Reepicheep concepts are wonderful, but his art of the hallway of the Magician's House has to be my favorite.

The Cor statue is super neat, as well. Too bad they didn't use it. I have to wonder what other design concepts were considered and eventually discarded - for costumes, especially. I wish Isis Mussenden would release more of her team's work!

I guess I'm the only one who saw the art by Chris Rosewarne of the same Prince Cor statue. It used to be up on his website.

Do any mods object to me posting it for people to see? (since of course I saved it). It's a very pretty peice.

And I second Adeona -- I wish I could see more of Isis Mussenden's work, especially the costume illustrations by Oksana Nedeveania!

Yes, it would have been. Prince Cor/Shasta might have been a lovely relic of post-Pevensie, pre-Telmarine history. But I think it could still be used as a detail for later films if possible, particularly the court of King Caspian X at the beginning of Silver Chair.

And since Caspian grew up hearing about the Golden Age and the Old Narnian heroes, it wouldn't be far fetched to think that Caspian would have a statue made in Cor's honour!