The Movie Art of Syd Mead: Visual Futurist

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Moon, Mariella (December 30, 2019). "Syd Mead, concept artist behind 'Blade Runner' and 'Tron,' dies at 86". EnGadget . Retrieved December 31, 2019.

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Tl;dr: Mead's art is genre defining and highly recommend this book for that, the let down was in the writing. Absolutely worth getting and sitting with a big cup of tea and immersing yourself in some of the best science fiction art of all time, you're going for the art not the writing. As a personal note, no designer or artist has affected me as deeply as Syd Mead: he was – and will be – a constant point of reference, and since his passing a few days ago I’m coming to realize more and more how much of my personal aesthetic culture has been affected by him in one form of another. Syd was invited to be not only the guest speaker and presenter but also contributed the vehicle design and consultation for the showcase corporate video. Throughout the years he has reached a legendary status among all concept and industrial designers: his modern yet grounded-in-reality style; the simple, elegant lines and harmonious proportions of his creations; the colorful, detailed environments surrounding each design; the refined gouache painting technique – realistic yet with a delightful artistic touch; all these elements create a unique combination, the ultimate concept designer’s dream.a b c Kilkenny, Katie (December 30, 2019). "Syd Mead, Visionary Conceptual Artist Behind 'Blade Runner' and 'Tron', Dies at 86". Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved December 31, 2019.

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Like many creators, much of his original work never made it into final form and onto the big screen. Some of his most amazing pieces in The Movie Art of Syd Mead: Visual Futurist were created for a cancelled reboot of the classic animated series The Jetsons. In only the past five years Mead designed a fully fleshed-out future world for a film called Topeka, which never was green-lighted after the development work was completed, but would have delivered a unique hodgepodge of hot rod-steampunk-junkyard motorcycles and classic cars in a city the evokes a mix of post-modern Asian metropolis and Logan’s Run. Week long series of critiques, presentations, lectures and an original piece of art, now in the PCC permanent collection.Syd Mead’s vision is exemplary, offering an artistic and highly believable approach to architectural and industrial design that few could ever hope to match. His technological reality is one you’d desperately want to spend extended time in, so that you can investigate, touch and conceptually grasp all of the small details together with the much bigger picture – experiencing the intrigue and excitement of something familiar reshaped with an expert’s eye. Syd was old-school, one of the last great artists of the old 20 th-century style of professional illustration. Concept design and illustration: Theme project AWAGI) (Concept design and illustration: Theme project NEOTOPIA)

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From organic starships and glistening space colonies, to dystopian cities and grimy spacecraft, if you want to know what any possible future looks like, Syd Mead is the man to call. As well as Blade Runner, his designs have enabled directors to realise future worlds for movies including Star Trek, Aliens, Tron and Elysium.

Concept and pre-production design for re-use of existing structure interior at Disney Land, Anaheim, California) Syd Mead can be considered the very first concept designer and artist. His visionary concepts, brought to life through an unmatched craft and an instantly recognizable style, come from an era when this type of artwork was completely unheard of. Yet, it is quite ironic that the work he is universally known for is associated with the dystopian world of Blade Runner, Aliens and Tron, which speaks for his genius and the universal value of his work. Syd is commissioned to create designs for proposed electronic game as variant of TV series, ‘BATTLESTAR, GALACTICA’ Re-design of core character MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM and five ancillary story characters Production of promotional poster art

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So this was a little bit of a weird one. Syd Mead is undoubtedly one of the most influential artists of science fiction and filmmaking, and yet.....I'm not sure it entirely came across. The book is crammed with a whole host of film concept art, of productions made and not made, but the tour was so fast across some of them ( Blade Runner: 2049 being one of the shortest chapters in the book). I feel there could have been so much more time and art to have been inserted here. Instead of one fast tour around his work, maybe it should have been split into tour - to give a real insight into his thousands of drawings across hundreds of thousands of hours. The art in here is astounding but...it needed...more? Syd continued to work until September 2019 taking high-profile projects every year, and notably worked on the Blade Runner sequel ‘Blade Runner 2049’ in 2017 where he was asked to imagine the post-apocalyptic Las Vegas by Director Denis Villeneuve. ART CENTER COLLEGE – PASADENA, CA of DESIGN: Presentation to students as guet of illustration chair And often even the highest-tech reality is, frankly, disappointing. “The first Cray computer looked like a cheap prop from a badly funded science fiction movie, it was pathetic,” Mead says, “and it was the fastest computer in the world at the time.”If you love science fiction films and appreciate the conceptartthat brought them to life, you will more than likely find great joy and nostalgia” -Entertainment Buddha Yet Syd’s future has no blade of wild grass, not even pigeons. In this techno-future, nature is not so much tamed as ignored. Perhaps tellingly, this is why even his optimistic techno-marvels often seem hard, even cold. In Syd’s future, humans seem happy to be alone with their machines. In Tron (1982) , for instance, nature is dispensed with entirely for a world of pure industrial design. Mead worked with major studios on the feature films: Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Blade Runner, Tron, 2010, Short Circuit, Aliens, The Spirit of '76, Timecop, Johnny Mnemonic, Mission: Impossible III, Elysium, Tomorrowland and Blade Runner 2049. [3] [14] George Lucas created the AT-AT for his Star Wars saga based on art by Mead. [15] Mead also contributed to the Japanese film Solar Crisis. In the 1990s, Mead supplied designs for two Japanese anime series, Turn A Gundam and the unfinished Yamato 2520. [14] Design for gaming level and (Shibuya area) laser shooting arena attraction. Six story attraction opens as Dr. Jeekhan’s.