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Too bad that "looking Sci-Fi" means more or less all looking the same. Art design in the movie "Alien" (was it Ron Cobb?) borrowed from samurai armor for the s
by JKCalhoun 2y ago
Too bad that "looking Sci-Fi" means more or less all looking the same.
Art design in the movie "Alien" (was it Ron Cobb?) borrowed from samurai armor for the space suits. (And of course Darth Vader himself was inspired in large part from samurai armor.)
Lazy films and video games since though seem to often just recycle a certain look. Perhaps an unpopular opinion but the "anime look" has been fatiguing to this person's taste for a couple of decades now as well.
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- MichaelZuo 2y agoI think it’s safe to say the vast majority of sci-fi artists are mediocore, but it’s not obvious since most shows/movies/games nowadays are also very far from hard sci-fi, where things like armor plausability would actually matter.
- inejge 2y agoArt design in the movie "Alien" (was it Ron Cobb?) borrowed from samurai armor for the space suits. I thought it was Moebius (alias Jean Giraud) who designed the Alien spacesuits? E.g., see [1]. (Perhaps he did borrow bits of samurai armor styling, I'm not disputing that.) [1] https://filmsketchr.blogspot.com/2013/04/alien-concept-art-by-jean-henri-gaston.html https://filmsketchr.blogspot.com/2013/04/alien-concept-art-b...
- JKCalhoun 2y agoThanks for clarifying. I suppose I could have Googled before posting. ;-)