Sci-Fi-O-Rama

Art, Design & Illustration with a Sci-Fi or Fantasy Slant.

August 25, 2008

Omni Magazine - War Of The Worlds

Filed under: Airbrush / Realistic, Omni Magazine, Roger Dean, Sci-Fi, Tim White — Sci-Fi-O-Rama @ 6:29 am

Roger Dean / Tim White - War Of The Worlds

Roger Dean / Tim White - War Of The Worlds

Two renderings of H.G.Wells Martian Tripods, from the novel “War of the Worlds” The menacing top Illustration is a close up of the cab, note the circling crows indicating an inert tripod - turned over by germs! The Second Illustration has a real sense of scale, three tripods under the aurora borealis and a violet northern sky

These images a part of a set that ran in Omni Magazine 1985, they are a co-production of designers Roger Dean, Martyn Dean, Tim White and Richard Clifton-Dey. The Illustrations were also re-licensed and used again by Psygnosis (who else!) for the 1987 Computer game “Terrorpods” and thats where I first came across them. Definitely in my all time top 5.

These Images are taken Courtesy of Dr. Zeus who’s expansive site is a homage to all things WOTW. http://drzeus.best.vwh.net/wotw/other/other.html

  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • Technorati
  • Facebook
  • Reddit
  • StumbleUpon

No Comments »

No comments yet.

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URL

Leave a comment




Powered by WordPress