When designing space ships in movies, it’s forgivable when artists opt to make something that looks cool instead of something perfectly realistic. After all, it’s not like anyone is going to try and bring the designs into functional reality; their principal purpose is to make audiences ooh and ahh. Because Project Hail Mary qualifies as “hard sci-fi,” however, the expectations are naturally a little bit different – and in reflection of that, I love all of the thought that went into the design of the Blip A, the alien behemoth piloted by Rocky.
