The Time Machine:

Visual Development for an Imagined Film

Description | ISBN: 9781969944109

A visual reimagining of H.G. Wells’ classic story—presented as concept art for a film that never existed.

This book presents The Time Machine as a visual development archive for an imagined animated film. Each section explores environments, characters, and key moments as they might appear during production—through sketches, variations, and fully realized scenes.

Set nearly 800,000 years in the future, the imagery follows the Time Traveler’s journey into a world that appears peaceful at first but reveals something far more unsettling beneath the surface.

Rather than retelling the story directly, this book focuses on how it might be designed—treating the narrative as a foundation for visual exploration.

The Time Machine: Visual Development for an Imagined Film
Fortune, Joseph and Wells, H.G.

107 pages of full-color illustrated product spreads

  • Concept designs of the Time Machine across multiple variations

  • A reimagined urban setting in 20th-century Asia

  • The distant future world of the Eloi

  • The descent into the Morlock domain

  • Cinematic interpretations of time travel


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