Akanbe Dragon, MSX.
(Winky Soft - 1988)
Missile Command (Atari, 1980)
SHORT VERSION:
My piece for Mike Mitchell’s SPACE! The Gallery Show! I’ve included some of my preliminary process—check the image captions to read about my steps!
LONG VERSION:
I’m a lifelong sci-fi fan, and when I was deciding what to contribute to the SPACE! show I thought of my more memorable sci-fi experiences. Watching Silent Running with my dad as a kid both fascinated and terrified me, and I’ve been interested in how nature fits into a space travel ever since. What are the logistics of putting something so beautiful and complicated into a very fragile & isolated location?
In the 1970’s, NASA, with the help of Dr. Gerard K. O’Neill, studied a variety of plans for space colony designs. I think it’s notable that there was a lot of awesome original art created for these plans to inspire people and generate interest in space travel. It’s amazing that these same designs have also informed so many modern day depictions of space stations in books, tv and movies!
In the spirit of those NASA illustrations (and after doing a silly amount of additional research) I made a travel poster for a new ecological space habitat of my own design!
Shoutout to Sam for inspiring me to use Google Sketchup….I’ve been watching him use it very effectively to make simple environment/perspective reference and decided to take the plunge myself. No way in hell I’d be patient enough to draw an inverted curved perspective otherwise!
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