No matter how some of our readers might feel about the politics behind Neill Blomkamp's space-station-for-the-1% movie Elysium, the visuals were spectacular and the weapons and spaceship designs were the best part of the movie.
All that prop design and special effects are detailed in a new book called Elysium: The Art of the Film. It's not just a collection of sketches; author Mark Salisbury interviewed the crew about the process of designing the movie and gets them to talk about how they tried to make everything work together. Check out a gallery of images from the book below.
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![Chief Warrant Officer 2 Brian Boase, dressed as Santa, waves to Forward Operating Base Salerno, Afghanistan, before being dropped off by a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter.](http://images03.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2024-12/santa.jpg?itok=KFVvxUEU "Chief Warrant Officer 2 Brian Boase, an intelligence chief, Headquarters, Headquarters Company, 3rd Brigade Combat Team "Rakkasans," 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), waves to Forward Operating Base Salerno, Afghanistan, before being dropped off by a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter to deliver Christmas presents, Dec. 25, 2012. (Spc. Brian Smith-Dutton/U.S. Army photo)")
![USS Christmas](http://images02.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2020-12/usschristmas900.jpeg.jpg?itok=isVMP23B "Uniforms and sparkly trees are a recipe for holiday romance in "USS Christmas." (Hallmark)")
