Dovetailing nicely into Bladerunner comes some of the original visual inspiration for that film – ‘The Long Tomorrow’ – a 1976 Proto-Cyberpunk Comic with art By French Artist Mobieus and a script from Dan (Alien) O’Bannon. Many Thanks to Dick Hogg for putting me onto this, and supplying the scans.
Read much more about ‘The Long Tomorrow’ and the birth of Cyberpunk here: http://www.brmovie.com/FAQs/BR_FAQ_BR_Influence.htm
A section of Ridley Scott’s storyboard sketches for Bladerunner, demonstrating once again his flair for drawing and his passion for details. These dystopian scenes in particular – Deckards visit to the Tyrell Corp HQ – were inspired by Ridley’s youth and memories of the night-time vista of oil refineries and steel mills, the fabric of 60′s industrial Teeside (North East England).
This is Roger Dean’s first piece of commissioned artwork for the legendary 80/90s Games House Psygnosis, and dates from way back to 1986. In addition to Roger Dean Psygnosis also used other Sci-Fi-O-Rama Favorites Tim White and Peter Andrew Jones examples of which I’ve featured earlier. Not all of the games were that memorable but the artwork certainley was and although some of it had been used before as SF Novel covers I think it’s fair to say that it reached a much wider and younger audience thanks to Psygnosis. Read more about Psygnosis here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psygnosis
Cover for the 1987 Computer game Barbarian, published by Psygnosis, art unmistakably by Roger Dean.
Note that this is not actually the famous one-on-one ‘Barbarian’ Beat em up, but a different game from around the same era. The famous version was like an early version of Mortal Kombat with a special death move that triggered a funny animation; basically if you managed to decapitate your opponent a little goblin creature came and dragged the corpse away – oh and the box art featured Maria Whittaker (top UK Page 3 Girl) and erm Wolf (from Old UK gladiators)…
A parched alien landscape rendered in a psychedelic colour scheme, Tim Whites Cover for the 1988 Science Fiction novel “The Krugg Syndrome” written by Angus McAllister.
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