More #SydMead, this time from his extensive portfolio of industrial design... last image is a 1983 design for the Sultan of Brunei's 747. Mead saw a future, bright, cheerful and optimistic. How I wish we had taken that route...
Let's have some #SydMead, the late, great Concept Artist whose vision shaped the look of #BladeRunner (Some of his last work was on the sequel)
This guy knew what he was doing. I wish I had shelf space to but a book about every designer, makeup artist, special effects guy... Sigh.
#filmsky #booksky #sydmead
From l-to-r: ERTL Blade Runner (1982) set; Deckard's Spinner, Deckard's Ground Car, Rachel's Spinner and Bryant's Spinner. The Hot Wheels Sentinel 400 Limo in police livery is in the back. Photo under white light (top) and purple light (bottom)
Two Spinners under white and purple lights. Might strip and repaint, but will use a spray paint to do it, I think. The front wheels need to be removed, as they should be rotated as the Spinners are in flight mode. Might replace them with a bit that looks like jet exhausts.
Rachel's Spinner and Deckard's Ground Car, both need to be stripped as the thick paint covers a lot of details. Also, there's that weird "Blade Runner" logo plastered on them, 80s, amirite? Again, I feel like these need a spray paint treatment and not my rough handpainted look.
The Syd Mead Sentinel 400 Limo, now that I've got some plasticard, I want to redo the front end so that it is more inline with the original concept art
Today's #diecast features a set got at the meet. It's the #BladeRunner (1982) set from ERTL. It consists of two Spinners, police and Deckard. As well, as Deckard's ground car and Rachel's Spinner. The movie vehicles were designed by #SydMead and I've included his Sentinel limo in the pics
Sydney Mead el artista detras de Blade Runner #BladeRunner1982 #SydMead #Hermanospodcast #FMEnLรญnea #podcastretro #VFXartist
ยซ Space Wreck ยป, c. 1977
by Syd Mead (American designer, 1933-2019)
Features in "The Flights of Icarus", by Donald Lehmkuhl, Martyn & Roger Dean, Dragon's World / Paper Tiger, 1977
#vintagefantasyart #fantasyart #fantasyillustration #SydMead #RogerDean #retroFuturism #scienceFantasy #spaceFantasy
Inspired by a Syd Mead painting of a futuristic Rolls Royce and some Night City lore from #cyberpunk2077, I did a background painting for that character portrait I did of Isambard Inkblot as a futuristic chauffeur
#digitalart #horsefurry #anthroart #sydmead #arasaka
Ingeniously designed futuristic city and spaceship art by Syd Mead
#SydMead #RetroFuturism
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Today, I'll be on Pop Culture Minefield talking up some BLADE RUNNER, one of my all time favorite films:
www.youtube.com/live/4uINCpP...
#bladerunner #cyberpunk #scifi #harrisonford #SydMead #ridleyscott #sciencefiction #rutgerhauer #film #movies #replicant #philipkdick #roybatty
All of these breathless "Easter eggs in _TRON: Ares_ that only eagle-eyed viewers will catch!" listicles, and not one of them has mentioned the "MEAD-MOE BUS" digital sign on the bus during the first real-world chase scene. ๐ That was the one that made me laugh the most #SydMead #Moebius #JeanGiraud
ยซ Sentinel 280 Concept ยป, c. 1970
by Syd Mead (American designer and painter, 1933-2019)
Concept car design for U.S. Steel, 1968
#vintagefantasyart #fantasyart #fantasyillustration #SydMead #RetroFuturism #ScienceFantasy
Syd Mead Turn A Gundam artwork
I get Turn A Gundam when I see this. It Turn A me all night. #SydMead
"Utopian modernist living"
One of the worlds in my game will be a "not-Earth" planet and I wanted one of the major cities to feel very retro futuristic and "analog".
#gamedev #automancer #artdeco #indiegamedev #kitsch #cassettefuturism #sydmead #normanrockwell #newspaper #TVGuide #Gramophone
Dr1p.L0g: Syd Mead pop-up, Chelsea. Chrome dreams, impossible cities. Painted like they already existed. No one else made the future feel this inevitable.
Falling awake thinking about sun soaked tech dreamsโ nerdingham.substack....
#SydMead #Futurism #Dr1pL0g
โIn visual #futurism, the line between total fantasy and futuristic is a thread of reality.โ
โก๏ธThe late, brilliant, Visual Futurist #SydMead was #BOTD 18 July 1933. #Film #Tech #SciFi #Filmmaking
[His cool website: sydmead.com
Syd Mead concept art for U.S. Steel.
#comics #illustration #sydmead
Sci-fi legend Arthur C. Clarke and film director Stanley Kubrick on the Aries spacecraft set of Kubrick's 1968 masterpiece "2001: A Space Odyssey"
Stop-motion monster legend Ray Harryhausen
Ishiro Honda and friends.
Producer/director George Pal
Some of my favorite moviemakers:
๐๐ฝ #StanleyKubrick
๐๐ฝ #GeneRoddenberry
๐ฆ๐ธ #RayHarryhausen
๐ฆ๐ต #IshiroHonda
๐๐ฝ #GeorgePal
๐๐ฝ #IrwinAllen
๐๐ธ #Gerry&SylviaAnderson
๐ต๐ฆ #WillisO'Brien
๐๐ฝ #DenisVillenueve
๐๐ฝ #RidleyScott
๐๐ค #ChristopherNolan
๐๐ธ #SydMead
๐๐ฆ #GeorgeLucas
๐๐ฝ #StevenSpielberg
Promo art by Robert McCall for Stanley Kubrick's 1968 masterpiece "2001: A Space Odyssey"
Favorite sci-fi names:
#StanleyKubrick #GeneRoddenberry #RayHarryhausen #EijiTsuburaya #IshiroHonda #GeorgePal #IrwinAllen #Gerry&SylviaAnderson #WillisO'Brien #ArthurC.Clarke #GeorgeOrwell #LarryNiven #RidleyScott #SydMead
Banner art: 'Star Trek VI' by Sean Robertson (ArtStation)
Grimes, Ridley Scott, and Others Tell Us How Designer Syd Mead Invented the Future #SydMead #BladeRunner #Aliens #Tron
www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/grim...
#scifisky #filmsky #scifi #movies #Bladerunner #SydMead
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...was an American industrial designer and neo-futurist concept artist, known for movies such as "Blade Runner", "Aliens", and "Tron". This gallery only scratches the surface of all his work.
www.sydmead.com/gallery
Syd Mead's amazing interior drawings for Blade Runner. He was such a legend.
#scifi #film #sciencefiction #movies #bladerunner #sydmead
>ART_INSPO // Views on this pop-up in New-Cyber-NYC. Syd Mead, the legend industrial designer-concept artist. Peeking his toils first-hand exploded my mind palace. I'm glad I caught it before it vanishes today. I asked the gallery, "Where to next?" Only one answer: the cosmos. #art #concept #sydmead
That time #SydMead designed a fighter and the image itself was actually classified. Luckily, now de-classified. Also shown, his concept for the Sultan of Brunei's 747, circa 1983 and Philips mobile cassette player designs.