Jerome K. Moore

Jerome K. Moore is an artist best known for his realistic crosshatched montage artwork on the covers of Star Trek and Star Trek: the Next Generation comic books for DC Comics,and also for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine for Malibu Comics, and Lost In Space, for Innovation Comics.

But I want to show some of the work he did when working in house at Warner Brothers Studio's for the prelude to Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone. From the comments on his site it appears that most of the work went unused because of the constant style changes before the film went into production. Still some really great pieces though.

"WB Marketing execs were indecisive about the obvious direction to go with the Potter license, and so we were instructed to design our own version of the character. This version intentionally ignored all other incarnations, including the marvelous literary designs of Mary Grandpre, and the inferior product art designed by another department.... Anyway, all our efforts spent on an entire art program were wasted once the first film was released, and the execs gained secondhand wisdom. Oh, well... We were still on the payroll. What did we care?"

I don't know what it is about these that I find appealing, it must be the charm of the little details like stars on the inside of the robes. I do wonder how different the films would have turned out if they had gone for a more 'bookish' feel to the film.