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Syd Mead concept art for Japan Rail East, 1990.
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Simon Bisley on where his monsters come from: "It's like with dreams — you're not really consciously thinking about most of that stuff. It's all the things that come out from behind the wall when you're asleep." (The Gutter Review, 2021)
Stunning Alien art by Simon Bisley (1990s)
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"But if you let yourself live that dream or live in a constant dream state, it all just comes out and you make entirely new things. You can build the whole world and whole people."
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Michael Whelan's "Descent," the 1990 cover art for the 40th-anniversary edition of Ray Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles."
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Michael Whelan's "Descent," the 1990 cover art for the 40th-anniversary edition of Ray Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles."
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"My paintings seem to make the strongest impression on people who are, well, who are crazy. A good many people think as I do. If they like my work they are creative... or they are crazy." —H.R. Giger
H.R. Giger’s concept art for Alien (1979). The biomechanical nightmare that changed sci-fi forever.
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TRON design by Moebius, hand-colored by Peter Lloyd.
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The king of space art.
Speculative space art by Robert McCall
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Go off, king.
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"Blade Runner" concept sketch by Mentor Huebner.
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Art direction by Hiromasa Ogura (小倉宏昌).
Gorgeous landscapes from Ghost in the shell
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"2001: A Space Odyssey" poster art by Robert McCall, 1968.
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Suddenly I want to rewatch "For All Mankind."
Brilliant Modular Lunar Rifle Platform concept by BKO2, designed around the unique constraints of combat on the Moon.
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Filmmaker Bert I. Gordon was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on this day in 1922. He passed away at 100 in 2023.
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One of the best animated futures ever made. But would you want to live there?
The stunning backgrounds of Cowboy Bebop (1998)
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"Blade Runner" concept art by Syd Mead.
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Ron Cobb's original "Alien" signage, made with felt tip pen and graph paper.
Ron Cobb's semiotic standards for Alien (1979)
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Before Godzilla, there was a model builder in Dresden, East Germany, May 1952.
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For the Doom box art, Punchatz brought a model to id Software's office to shoot reference photos. The poses weren't working, so co-creator John Romero took his shirt off and posed himself. The model ended up as the demon grabbing his arm.
Stunning Doom art by Don Ivan Punchatz (1990s)
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