Syd Mead - Visual Futurism

[milxl]

2:12 the future F22 raptor

[milxl]

and its future factory 6:31

[1king4all]

When I watch this I feel as if I'm there living in those worlds.

[SkyGaruda]

3:08 my favorite "AT-AT" concept.

[RiffInvader]

The best of the best.

[JohnLoganMcKee03]

DAMN, that was cool!

[zvastianx]

Syd Mead.  Tron, Aliens, Blade Runner, just to name a few. By the way, the Japanese and their futuristic/anime art are not original.

[DireDiscoManeuver]

so brilliant man...i appreciate that upload.

blade runner music fits perfectly to these images.

people i can't wait for the future....does anyone have a time machine or something...i mean a real one?

[Kerolden]

@DireDiscoManeuver Cryonics is the closest thing to a real time machine we have right now.

[DireDiscoManeuver]

@Kerolden yeah i've heard about that, but how safe is it really? sounds like a big risk...not that it would matter i guess...future waits huh

[Kerolden]

@DireDiscoManeuver technically its done after a person has naturally died so i guess its fairly safe,i don't see any danger in that.the persons body is frozen with a technique that does not damage it,the body can be protected more if the person doing it also applies for the suspended animation service,which is a team of people using special equipment to immediately preserve your body after your natural death.the whole premise is to keep the body preserved for future revival and rejuvenation

[Kerolden]

@DireDiscoManeuver and yes it is a risk i guess,if you want info, this site will help, cryonicsDOTorg

[DireDiscoManeuver]

well...see you in a few hundred years man

[Kerolden]

@DireDiscoManeuver lol, hope so.

[DancingEar08]

He's done some fantastic work. Love his vision and artistry.

[RYANRASCO]

6:11 mass effect

[voltagetoe]

@RYANRASCO

Many concepts of Mead were brutally copied by the M.E. team. There's one wheeled vehicle that seems like it is directly modeled from Syd's piece...

[RayDandy]

6:27 - 6:41 awesome

[RayDandy]

@RayDandy and 00:38

[Kerolden]

3:04 - 3:24 , those two i like the most

[bluballzzz]

no mexicans in the future

[RayDandy]

@bluballzzz  lol,you're wrong. a lot more mexicans in the future, their population is growing in the southwest U.S.

[alaespsd]

he's genius, inspires me much more about design than the well known designers in industry, raises expectations for the future and that is the most important nuance i think. otherwise -as being an industrial designer- you can easily feel like a wheel in the system and lose your desire

[2505994]

he will work on niell blomkamp's next movie called elysium

[MrCube111]

Watch this. Cube Destination

[rogybra]

@5:41 my favorite

[popkocher]

@rogybra 6:08 is mine :)

[romancandlefight]

shame about the animated zooms etc. ... losing the ability to see the whole picture

[wildone106]

We SHOULD be living in a world like this..I believe the human race has been held back intentionally though..they dreamed of flying cars in the 40s and we should have it by now..

[Joe35983]

@wildone106 I strongly agree with yu, man

[konascrap888]

@wildone106 yeah but at the same time, the 1900's represented the largest time of human advancement in our history. if anything, we were held back in the hundreds of thousands of years BEFORE the last hundred years

[Feanic]

Syd Mead is far ahead of his time. That's the world that we should live in!

[metrOjedi]

WOW! That's all I have to say.... except for saying 'that's all I have to say', and this last part.

[Ourvvorld]

It is both inspiring and impressive, we should so to live. When will it be? through 500, 1000 or 2000 years?

[generatorium]

Hey! It reminds me of nazi utopian projects illustrations back in 1935! Allmost the same

[croscream]

@generatorium

You get the feeling that the societies he created came from the minds of socialists or corporatists. Huge architectural projects with no other purpose then to impress the masses.

[GammaProVideo]

'The Village Machine' image which is in this vid is available for a limited time as a print at Gamma Proforma

[elpresidio]

I must get the Blade Runner soundtrack. Then I can fall asleep to it while dreaming of electric sheep...or unicorns.

[Shaihuluid]

And, If you don't mind another query, I'd love to know where to find the "golden city" image at 9:46. Thanks!

[xxnightopsxx]

I believe I got the hi-res online, it's Mead's concept art from Bladerunner - it also appeared in a number of magazines.

[Shaihuluid]

This is an exceptionally well done video, but what is the music that starts at 6:38? a continuation of Blade runner?

[xxnightopsxx]

Yes, all music is from Vangelis's score however this is from the Esper edition which is a bootleg release and more comprehensive than the official releases.

[JdeM1314]

Those planes at 6:31 look very familiar... I reckon Doug Chiang nicked the colour scheme for the Star Wars prequel. A chrome nose with a banana yellow body is pretty wierd for a fighter don't think.

[JdeM1314]

....Unless Mead painted that after '99?

[KentAllard]

Lucas did rip off James Gurneys Waterfall City from Dinotopia in creating the human city on Naboo and even duplicated the 'Dinosaur Parade' painting at the end of the film, however I'm pretty sure they had begun preliminary work like Chiangs art as early 1995/1996

Also the piece at 3:37 looks a lot like some pieces Ralph MacQuarrie did for the earlier drafts of Return of the Jedi when some the action was to take place on the Imperial Capital.

[Kaine09]

@JdeM1314 All fantasy or sci-fi artists have been inspired by Syd Mead at one point or another. He's one of the sci-fi artist greats of our time... :)

[pleitegeier007]

Fascinating !