2008 August Archive - Sci-Fi-O-Rama

Alien – Storyboards

Images from the original Alien Storyboard – Art by Ridley Scott.

Ridley Scott’s pre production storyboards for 1979 Sci-Fi Horror Movie Alien, show he’s a dab hand with the marker pens! these extremely detailed visuals serve to demonstrate just how meticulous his eye for visual design is. The top shows ‘Kane’ and ‘Lambert’ on the Nostromo’s bridge next down show’s ‘Jones’ the Ships cat, used in several of the ships memorable shots, the lower slides show members of the crew outside wearing the costumes based on the Concepts by Moebius also featured on this blog.

Ridley Scott first dabbling in film first started whilst studying Graphic Design at Londons Royal College of Art (RCA) between the years of 1960-1962, upon graduating he went on to work as a trainee set designer with the BBC. Ridley Worked on sucesfull Tv shows: Dr Who & Z cars before moving into directing TV adverts such as the “Hovis Bike Round”, then finally on to Hollywood and the rest is film history!

Read More about Ridley Scott at Wiki or Imdb.com

Omni Magazine – 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

Mark Salwowski – Fallen Angels

Aug 24th, 2008 | Categories: Airbrush / Realistic | Illustration | Mark Salwowski | Sci-Fi

A trashed Spaceship glistens under a low arctic sun, I’m guessing it’s the arctic though being Sci-fi it could of course be anywhere. Quite an original choice of lighting from Salwowski, a long and heavy shadow cast in the glow of weak winter sunlight.

Mark Salwowski is a British Sci-fi and Fantasy Illustrator specialising in airbrush work. His career spans nearly thirty years having produced Cover art for famous authors such as John Wyndham, Orson Scott Card, Brian Aldiss, Iain M Banks and Micheal Moorcock. For more info check his extensive portfolio here: http://www.salwowski.com/Main.html

Peter P. Plasencia – Space Alphabet

Aug 23rd, 2008 | Categories: Children | Illustration | Retro | Sci-Fi

Super Cool/kitsch Illustrations by Peter P. Plasencia for the 1964 Space themed children’s book “Space Alphabet” by Irene Zacks.

See the full set over on Flickr courtesy of Wardomatic http://flickr.com/photos/wardomatic/sets/782615/

Nice Slab Serif font too!

Boris Vallejo – Dragon Maiden

Aug 22nd, 2008 | Categories: Boris Vallejo | Fantasy | Illustration

1978 Fantasy Hyper Realism from Boris Vallejo, don’t know why but this makes me think of Disco! I think’s thats because I’ve seen several fantasy based Disco/Cosmic Disco Sleeve’s / Flyers most recently Via Beats in Space – click the above Thumbnail – not sure of the artist on that one.

Image Sourced from this expansive Boris Vallejo Library http://vallejo.ural.net/1979/

More about Boris himself here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Vallejo

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