Hi all! The last artwork from this video is not by Syd Mead. It's made by Anthony Scime, and it's titled "TS 2850". Sorry for the confusion. Hope you'll enjoy the video!
Sometimes I wish I could just have the ability to pop into pictures, and just be a part of it and experience it more. Living can be brutal when art can paint a better life.
Mead was a true genius! I had the pleasure of helping to hang one of his matte paintings that he made for the original Blade Runner, at an art show. It was an incredible piece of art painted by a true master!
That future is here.. only problem interpretations of the future seldom ever includes what remains of the past. Its like envisioning New York City with a futuristic skyline without any of the buildings prior. This is what we see of syd's art. A clean page interpretation of the future without traces of the old. But, he did do just that with with his concept work and eventual set design work for Blade Runner. Retrofittinig the past into the future, which is what we see today in reality. As for flying cars... here ya go.. on the house. th-cam.com/video/5ukmS9ZJm40/w-d-xo.html
@@Marv_0815 And a political class that has Western students acquire 100,000 in debt to compete with slave labor in Asia. And Drag Queen Story Hour. And all time high suicide rates for the native class of Western Civ. And 800 dollars for a Tylenol pill at the hospital.
We ain’t gonna get it. We’ll be driving combustion engine out-dated jallopies for mother century so your masters can make their last billions and start wars. Those pictures show what we don’t have in our real world: United effort, progressive minded, egalitarian, willingness to work for something better that can be better for everyone; in short, a world we share. This is what sci fi dreamed of from the 60’s to the mid-late 80’s....then...it vaporized. Sci fi today is all about war. Unrealistic bug aliens want to steal our water and resources, space is bad/space is evil/everything in space wants to exterminate us - hmmm....just like what the human race has been doing worldwide since the 1400’s. Sadly, this is all a pipe dream now. There used to be actual science in science fiction.
The music truly places you in the spirit, mood, and vision Mr. Mead had intended with his illustrations, just wonderful!!! The music brings the images to life, or to another realm that is being presented in his visions...
I find myself coming back to Syd Mead's work over and over again. Each time Im always in awe of his vision. Syd Mead's influence will echo into the future forever.
This was drawn in the early 80s. I would have thought the cars would've been a dead giveaway. Strangely enough my car looks VERY much like the concept cars of the late 90s. Look up FG falcon.... Australian car.
The future that we want is never a reality. But it's our human nature to not accept reality, so no matter what time gives us. We still look towards the future. The only thing impossible is impossibility. And the future still awaits.
Syd Mead, at his best and most optimistic, ilkustrated the future you WANTEDto see yourself in, a future of beautiful machines, gorgeous and pleasingly striking buildings, stylish clothing and a bright future where, even as a pedestrian on your way to work, you imagined that you would have the occasional moment in which you would glance up and be suddenly struck by how aesthetically pleasing your world is . . . . . . As a teenager in the 70's and early 80's, heavily into Sci Fi and imagining the great leaps we would make in the next 40 years because we had recently been on the Moon, Syd Mead was the future i yearned for and Foss was the future i wanted to live in and work in . . . . . . . . I live in a constant state of dissapointment with a profound feeling of betrayal.
We can only hope to be graced by someone as talented and visionary as Syd again in our lifetime. But something tells me we'll never quite get there. Thanks for the hope and optimism, Syd.
If you guys like jets, check out Great Fighter Jets of the Galaxy 1 by Tim Gibson. Futuristic jets, military aviation, tons of neat aircraft. It's my favorite book.
A true legend, one of the founders of sci-fi design. His work is out of this world and influences so many other designers and IP's, and that will echo on for ever. Thanks for your work mr Mead, rest in peace.
As a 60s & 70s kid Syd’s art blew my mind - especially the cars (which admittedly some look dated now) and the cool genetically engineered (or alien?) animals. Like everyone else is commenting, this is the future I expected and feel sad I didn’t get. But his art was intended to inspire, not predict, and it is still perfectly successful for that.
Beautiful art and music. I love how almost every painting has a few people conversing in the background. It evokes the same weird feelings as the painting 'Nighthawks' , that eerie familiarity, like you've been there before, spoken with those people.
I love his art, and I am happy to get a video from your channel about him, with your beautiful taste of music selection. Steve Roach is a perfect selection for real.
I got to do work for Syd just before His passing, in fact I spoke with Roger today. I love Syd, his work is fantastic He was a very personable guy and a true treasure.
RIP the legend, I'm glad to see his work of art translated through media such as Blade Runner and Turn A Gundam. His works will still live on through the end of time.
Not even taking into account his astounding imagination and mechanical design aptitude, the fact that this was all rendered BY HAND and still outweighs the technical quality of most modern concept illustrators, without a single digital crutch involved.... Syd was a talent almost beyond comprehension.
Syd Mead was such a wonderful influence, inspiration in my desire to become a designer. When I was about 12 years old(1980) I began to draw, especially cars. So, when I first saw some of Syd's work I was awe struck! The futuristic scenes, the way people were dressed, the cars, the creativity that left so much to my imagination... The work he did for Blade Runner! So beautiful! Now, almost 40 years later his vision of the future seems dated... Not completely but I wonder if he imagined cell phone use, touch screen devices..? The structures and cities are still very futuristic. The outfits, costumes, and clothes people are wearing very interesting... As for today, what is being designed and built in the way of cars today in reality are very much in the spirit and seemingly more advanced than the cars Mr. Mead thought of decades ago... Also, I especially love the representation of "glow" in the images in a dark section where a screen is projecting on someone...
I didn’t realize the greatness of Syd Mead until I was visiting the set of Demolition Man at Warner Brothers - while he didn’t work on that one we snuck into the empty office of the production designer who had these big and amazing Syd Mead picture books we couldn’t stop looking through.
DistantMirrors, you beautiful soul, thanks for uploading this. It is wonderful! I love Syd Mead and his vision of the future, a bright and hopeful world we could sure hope for in this day and age.
I have looked through countless videos of the works of Roger Dean, Simon Stalenhag, and my all time favorite Syd Mead. FINALLY! Someone gets the music right. Thank you!
Caught by the thumbnail, stayed for music and images. Never knew of Syd Mead but oh my goodness he was extremely skilled with coloration and reflections! Very cool concepts!
I' m too wished this Future, no rage no poornes no infect no war, Just peace lovely heavenly happy , supercivilization very nice Future ,,,,, my Dream :""""")
I had the first release of his works back in the day. It still astonishes me how many concepts he conceptualized that actually came to be. Gyro stabilized personal transport, aka. Segway.
It's always fascinating to see what portrayals of the future are like at a given time. This seems to emphasize the flying cars kind of feel to a degree. I like the shine of the colors for the cars. I wonder what those in the future will think of our portrayals of the future in the 2020s?
Syd Mead's participation as the designer of the futuristic city in Blade Runner gave the film a unique character an avant-garde vision of how our society can become in a short time ...
I loved seeing Syd's work many times as a child but honestly never knew his name until today. Can we all agree that Syd's vision of the future was one where ADULTS took their age seriously and worked TOGETHER to build a healthier, cleaner, more enlightened society (generally). It was not a future where the ADULTS fight to be the most unhealthy (fast food dependence and ambivalence toward morbid obesity), exhibit ignorant overpolution and waste of resources in their general living area and the planet as a whole, and saturate their meager intellectual abilities debating "child-topics" like which Avenger is really the strongest or what the Kardashians are up to this week?
Let's face it folks, the "future" didn't turn out the way we wanted because we waited for someone to make it this way FOR us instead of creating our future for ourselves :(
@@eggheadusa We used to use Magic Markers and Airbrushes to comp out ideas. Before computers we did all layouts and product renders by hand. Before any photoshoot or for product development we would draw it all out by hand to make sure it works and to get the client blessing. Syd was a master renderer. Look up marker rendering techniques. Hope this helps.
Ha! I also chose my major because of him. I thought I wasn't enough of an artist, and went for the ID *Engineering* end (Process & Materials...how you actually *make* the things we can imagine.) I met him at a Design Centre event with Luigi Colani. I suppose we'll have to keep trying to make the future like that without him. At least he left us some directions.
His future is timeless, even to this day, his work still looks like 'reality ahead of schedule', that says it all. Thank you for making me discover such a great artist with excellent music to complement. Great video honoring to the artist. Hope many more will learn from his work and be able to transcend it to another level. To the stars and beyond !
In light of his passing, you're tempted to say "What a loss". And then you see this, and the idea of "loss" diminishes. Not when he contributed SO much in life. R.I.P. Syd...
It is not only the Future that has been stolen from us by corrupt and decadent postmodern Capitalism. Postmodern Capitalism has robbed us of the Aesthetics of good taste and the optimism of Modernity.
I had the honor of holding and analyzing a Syd Mead original at a company I worked for, as a creative it was a the thrill of seeing the brush strokes and other painting methods up close and in such vivid detail.
Sydney Mead and Peter Elson stood out as artist who have shaped the future of design, these artists have left a legacy of pointing the human race in a direction of travel and a beautiful direction it is.
@@Mankindatwar Yrs the more you look at this video the more commonality you see. The citadel could be almost a touch up job, along with the some vehicles. I remember getting the art book for the original game and reading how they developed the themes, feel sorta half cheated now I'm aware of this. Not to say the original trilogy wasn't a great experience throughout.
I had the pleasure of meeting Syd several times at San Diego ComiCon - he was a gentle man, and an enlightened conversationalist. Had no idea there was a YT channel dedicated to his art. Thank you!
Attending school for industrial design, I was in one of the last classes that were taught mixed media drawing. Everything was going to computer drawings, obviously. Sid Mead was an absolute god to us students. This brings back fond memories. Thanks for sharing!
This is so very cool. I remember seeing his stuff in magazines back in the mid 80's. I've been a fan from the moment I first saw his works. I drew a lot as a kid and I always wanted to design cars like he did. Thanks.
R.I.P to a legend. His art will live on for the generations to come. Forever cementing his place in shaping our visual understanding of sci-fi. Truly a hallmark in time.
Absolutely breathtaking stuff. His designs are so strange, yet so realistic. And the use of colour...oh my, that colour palette is absolute perfection. Everything looks so alive, and palpable.
4:27 is the kitchen in Blade Runner. 7:38 is the car from Blade Runner. 5:30, 7:16, 10:02, and 11:02 also was designed for Blade Runner. I saw 10:30 in a issue of Road & Track back in 88'. Thanks.
RIP and condolences to the family. As avid sci-fi fans I regularly saw his unique and gorgeous artworks. Such an inspirational figure. Thanks for the masterpieces.
I was a deep fan of Syd and his design vision ever since 1972 when I was a student of Architecture... Syd was a true GENIUS among us! RIP sir... the world has lost one of its greatest futurists... besides Ridley Scott, Apple’s Steve Jobs was a big fan as well! Thanks for posting.
The breadth of this man's influence is nigh incalculable. I would give a lot just to spend a day in his dreams. The world builder of Bladerunner, Tron, the influence of Mass Effect's fantastic Citadel, practically the father of the cyberpunk genre; one of my favorites. Rest easy, Syd.
It's really astonishing, the difference between great art, that moves you, captures your imagination and transports you to a different place and just a pretty picture.
This video was beautiful, visionary, inspiring, and not long enough. Like Syd's life. I degreed in Industrial Design because of him, and met him briefly at a Design Centre event with Colani. My ID teacher had met him and taken his class to visit his studio. He's painted us a lovely target; we may yet be able to get there. Never give up on the future.
Reverie; to be pleasantly lost in one's thoughts, a Daydream. His art it truly magnificent and makes me ache to try my own hand at 3D modeling thing that could have suitably matched in this world, and 3D print them for ours
When I saw Mr Meads art when I was a kid, many, many years ago, I was convinced that this was how the future would look when I got to be in my 50's....well...I am in my 50's and still waiting....
It is not only the Future that has been stolen from us by corrupt and decadent postmodern Capitalism. Postmodern Capitalism has robbed us of the Aesthetics of good taste and the optimism of Modernity.
Stupendous and inspiring, truly visionary work. It's sad that we still see so little of this vision manifested in our world. It's perennially a future that's always just around the corner, but...
Hi all!
The last artwork from this video is not by Syd Mead. It's made by Anthony Scime, and it's titled "TS 2850". Sorry for the confusion. Hope you'll enjoy the video!
Syd Mead isn't dead, he just teleported back to his own time
Back to the Future...?
Force with he , Forever
Inmortal
A time of a futuristic past. Maybe an alternate universe where the times collide.
Makes me feel nostalgic for the future.
"Preemptive nostalgia of the possible but doubtful."
shit right
perfect
The Lost future
@@TallicaMan1986 Boy howdy, this makes me feel like a Camel cigarette.
Sometimes I wish I could just have the ability to pop into pictures, and just be a part of it and experience it more. Living can be brutal when art can paint a better life.
Sanity Logic Art does nothing that the imagination does not do itself. Art acts only as a springboard that ignites the imagination to soar.
We are all time travellers, heading into the future. Be patient, you will arrive.
Psychedelics my friend.
In a sense, VR will be bringing some of that. 😎
@@BoltRM yo some kind of massive, open-world video game made in Syd Mead's vision would be so cool ... vehicles and cityscapes all.
"The future ain't what it used to be"
- Yogi Berra
hahaa that is so amazing
Mead was a true genius! I had the pleasure of helping to hang one of his matte paintings that he made for the original Blade Runner, at an art show. It was an incredible piece of art painted by a true master!
Link?
That would've been absolutely awesome.
THIS is the future I wanted...
Yeah, not fuckin Greta Thunfish.
That future is here.. only problem interpretations of the future seldom ever includes what remains of the past. Its like envisioning New York City with a futuristic skyline without any of the buildings prior. This is what we see of syd's art. A clean page interpretation of the future without traces of the old. But, he did do just that with with his concept work and eventual set design work for Blade Runner. Retrofittinig the past into the future, which is what we see today in reality. As for flying cars... here ya go.. on the house. th-cam.com/video/5ukmS9ZJm40/w-d-xo.html
Same here..
@@Marv_0815 And a political class that has Western students acquire 100,000 in debt to compete with slave labor in Asia. And Drag Queen Story Hour. And all time high suicide rates for the native class of Western Civ. And 800 dollars for a Tylenol pill at the hospital.
We ain’t gonna get it. We’ll be driving combustion engine out-dated jallopies for mother century so your masters can make their last billions and start wars. Those pictures show what we don’t have in our real world: United effort, progressive minded, egalitarian, willingness to work for something better that can be better for everyone; in short, a world we share. This is what sci fi dreamed of from the 60’s to the mid-late 80’s....then...it vaporized. Sci fi today is all about war. Unrealistic bug aliens want to steal our water and resources, space is bad/space is evil/everything in space wants to exterminate us - hmmm....just like what the human race has been doing worldwide since the 1400’s. Sadly, this is all a pipe dream now. There used to be actual science in science fiction.
The music truly places you in the spirit, mood, and vision Mr. Mead had intended with his illustrations, just wonderful!!! The music brings the images to life, or to another realm that is being presented in his visions...
I find myself coming back to Syd Mead's work over and over again. Each time Im always in awe of his vision. Syd Mead's influence will echo into the future forever.
twin
IN A PARALLELL REALITY ALL THESE THINGS EXISTS.
such a thorough mastery of reflections...
This was profoundly more touching than I thought it would be...strength be unto all weary fellow travelers
Greetings fellow wayfarer
Very peaceful.
Coming of age in the late 1960's, this was how the future was supposed to look like.
Hulagan 808 The hippies were too busy with free love and smoking pot to contribute to making this happen.
Joel Carson It’s still what it’s supposed to look like.
This was drawn in the early 80s. I would have thought the cars would've been a dead giveaway. Strangely enough my car looks VERY much like the concept cars of the late 90s. Look up FG falcon.... Australian car.
The future that we want is never a reality. But it's our human nature to not accept reality, so no matter what time gives us. We still look towards the future. The only thing impossible is impossibility. And the future still awaits.
Yeah the late 60s and 70s societal, financial and geopolitical self created mess destroyed the future
Syd Mead. A Genius. Your channel has the real taste of good taste.
Still can't believe we lost both him and Rutger Hauer in 2019
Both Syd and Roy Batty saw things with their eyes that no-one else has seen.... like attack ships burning off the shoulder of Orion..... :(
They had seen sea beams glitter in the dark near the tenhauser gate. Unfortunately all those moments will be lost in time.....
The kind of peace we lack this days of a bright future whitout war and despair that's power and beauty !! Bravo !!
In a world where electric power and nuclear energy where "too cheap to meter"
Syd Mead, at his best and most optimistic, ilkustrated the future you WANTEDto see yourself in, a future of beautiful machines, gorgeous and pleasingly striking buildings, stylish clothing and a bright future where, even as a pedestrian on your way to work, you imagined that you would have the occasional moment in which you would glance up and be suddenly struck by how aesthetically pleasing your world is . . . . . . As a teenager in the 70's and early 80's, heavily into Sci Fi and imagining the great leaps we would make in the next 40 years because we had recently been on the Moon, Syd Mead was the future i yearned for and Foss was the future i wanted to live in and work in . . . . . . . . I live in a constant state of dissapointment with a profound feeling of betrayal.
This is one of those guys that everyone who makes anything futuristic is influenced by whether they know it or not
We can only hope to be graced by someone as talented and visionary as Syd again in our lifetime. But something tells me we'll never quite get there. Thanks for the hope and optimism, Syd.
Bless his creative ❤️
If you guys like jets, check out Great Fighter Jets of the Galaxy 1 by Tim Gibson. Futuristic jets, military aviation, tons of neat aircraft. It's my favorite book.
In the future, Syd will be remembered among Michelangelo, Da Vinci and all the artists that left a mark to be remembered.
A true legend, one of the founders of sci-fi design. His work is out of this world and influences so many other designers and IP's, and that will echo on for ever. Thanks for your work mr Mead, rest in peace.
You can see his influence everywhere, he has changed this world in some small but significant way.
As a 60s & 70s kid Syd’s art blew my mind - especially the cars (which admittedly some look dated now) and the cool genetically engineered (or alien?) animals. Like everyone else is commenting, this is the future I expected and feel sad I didn’t get. But his art was intended to inspire, not predict, and it is still perfectly successful for that.
Beautiful art and music. I love how almost every painting has a few people conversing in the background. It evokes the same weird feelings as the painting 'Nighthawks' , that eerie familiarity, like you've been there before, spoken with those people.
Just discovered this channel, one of the few times I can actually feel gratitude towards the TH-cam algorithm!
I love his art, and I am happy to get a video from your channel about him, with your beautiful taste of music selection. Steve Roach is a perfect selection for real.
Thank you so much! :)
I got to do work for Syd just before His passing, in fact I spoke with Roger today. I love Syd, his work is fantastic He was a very personable guy and a true treasure.
RIP the legend, I'm glad to see his work of art translated through media such as Blade Runner and Turn A Gundam. His works will still live on through the end of time.
He was responsible for the mustashiod mobile suit.
And Mass Effect in a way.
I like the dystopian rainy night street scenes. I could almost smell the soy from the cooking in the street vendor stands.
Not even taking into account his astounding imagination and mechanical design aptitude, the fact that this was all rendered BY HAND and still outweighs the technical quality of most modern concept illustrators, without a single digital crutch involved.... Syd was a talent almost beyond comprehension.
Syd Mead was such a wonderful influence, inspiration in my desire to become a designer. When I was about 12 years old(1980) I began to draw, especially cars. So, when I first saw some of Syd's work I was awe struck! The futuristic scenes, the way people were dressed, the cars, the creativity that left so much to my imagination... The work he did for Blade Runner! So beautiful! Now, almost 40 years later his vision of the future seems dated... Not completely but I wonder if he imagined cell phone use, touch screen devices..? The structures and cities are still very futuristic. The outfits, costumes, and clothes people are wearing very interesting... As for today, what is being designed and built in the way of cars today in reality are very much in the spirit and seemingly more advanced than the cars Mr. Mead thought of decades ago... Also, I especially love the representation of "glow" in the images in a dark section where a screen is projecting on someone...
I am deeply impressed. So much creativity, optimism and strange beauty. Thank you for sharing.
I didn’t realize the greatness of Syd Mead until I was visiting the set of Demolition Man at Warner Brothers - while he didn’t work on that one we snuck into the empty office of the production designer who had these big and amazing Syd Mead picture books we couldn’t stop looking through.
DistantMirrors, you beautiful soul, thanks for uploading this. It is wonderful! I love Syd Mead and his vision of the future, a bright and hopeful world we could sure hope for in this day and age.
So happy that you liked it!
somewhere in time...
meet you in a hyperreal future!
I have looked through countless videos of the works of Roger Dean, Simon Stalenhag, and my all time favorite Syd Mead. FINALLY! Someone gets the music right. Thank you!
Caught by the thumbnail, stayed for music and images. Never knew of Syd Mead but oh my goodness he was extremely skilled with coloration and reflections! Very cool concepts!
Such a fantastic artist !
I was always hoping the future would be like this ..........
Damn, I wish his future (our present day) actually looked like this.
I' m too wished this Future, no rage no poornes no infect no war, Just peace lovely heavenly happy , supercivilization very nice Future ,,,,, my Dream :""""")
I had the first release of his works back in the day. It still astonishes me how many concepts he conceptualized that actually came to be. Gyro stabilized personal transport, aka. Segway.
Syd Mead has always been one of my all time favorite futurist artists! His imagination and artwork has always amazed me!
It's always fascinating to see what portrayals of the future are like at a given time. This seems to emphasize the flying cars kind of feel to a degree. I like the shine of the colors for the cars. I wonder what those in the future will think of our portrayals of the future in the 2020s?
I could look at Syd Mead paintings and drawing for hours.
Syd Mead's participation as the designer of the futuristic city in Blade Runner gave the film a unique character an avant-garde vision of how our society can become in a short time ...
I loved seeing Syd's work many times as a child but honestly never knew his name until today.
Can we all agree that Syd's vision of the future was one where ADULTS took their age seriously and worked TOGETHER to build a healthier, cleaner, more enlightened society (generally). It was not a future where the ADULTS fight to be the most unhealthy (fast food dependence and ambivalence toward morbid obesity), exhibit ignorant overpolution and waste of resources in their general living area and the planet as a whole, and saturate their meager intellectual abilities debating "child-topics" like which Avenger is really the strongest or what the Kardashians are up to this week?
Let's face it folks, the "future" didn't turn out the way we wanted because we waited for someone to make it this way FOR us instead of creating our future for ourselves :(
I was mesmerized and greatly influenced by his art for decades.
Also, great soundscape. Very appropriate.
Syd Mead could see things that had never been and might never be and used his talents to share them with us.
thanks so much for putting this together.
I come back time and time again to watch/listen to this masterpiece of a mashup. Literal perfection.❤
Thank You ! The futurist who gave us so many beautiful designs ! I have a couple of his books. he will be missed !
Over 30 years ago, Syd was my inspiration, the reason I ended up going to design school to eventually becoming a renderer. Sad news indeed.
Alex Huxley whats a renderer
@@eggheadusa We used to use Magic Markers and Airbrushes to comp out ideas. Before computers we did all layouts and product renders by hand. Before any photoshoot or for product development we would draw it all out by hand to make sure it works and to get the client blessing. Syd was a master renderer. Look up marker rendering techniques. Hope this helps.
Ha! I also chose my major because of him. I thought I wasn't enough of an artist, and went for the ID *Engineering* end (Process & Materials...how you actually *make* the things we can imagine.) I met him at a Design Centre event with Luigi Colani.
I suppose we'll have to keep trying to make the future like that without him. At least he left us some directions.
Alex Huxley So you add light and color to sketches? I’m guessing cgi took away a lot of work huh?
His future is timeless, even to this day, his work still looks like 'reality ahead of schedule', that says it all. Thank you for making me discover such a great artist with excellent music to complement. Great video honoring to the artist. Hope many more will learn from his work and be able to transcend it to another level. To the stars and beyond !
In light of his passing, you're tempted to say "What a loss". And then you see this, and the idea of "loss" diminishes. Not when he contributed SO much in life. R.I.P. Syd...
Through his art and his inspiration to others he will live on forever :)
The Future we were promised...
We're The Dispossessed.
You fools you’re in the present not the future
@@eggheadusa fuck you
It is not only the Future that has been stolen from us by corrupt and decadent postmodern Capitalism. Postmodern Capitalism has robbed us of the Aesthetics of good taste and the optimism of Modernity.
Nebris people like you hold us back
Rest in peace dear Syd😢
I grew up on your fantastic artwork and it has inspired me all my life.
You will be dearly missed💔
Bare in mind, This was before photoshop. This is painted by hand. At one point he wasn't an artist on Artstation.com. He was the Artstation!
Thanks for posting Artstation. I'd never heard of it. I'm blown away!
@@jeffa6780 Yeah Jeff Art Atations awesome man. I go on it whenever i need inspiration. some really talented people out there just like Syd was.
Bloody hell - there was Art before Photoshop? You don't say..
@@nikolaikrustev1159 Ha ha, Yes, but rarely of the that quality for the genre. It was pretty much him and Jim Burns.
I paint by hand AND on photoshop, whats the big deal?
Inspiring, beautiful, relaxing, both visually and in sound.
I sincerely can't believe all these great artists are here on TH-cam. Excellent! Syd Mead was phenomenal.
Rest in peace you genius. Sci-fi fans are grateful for your work.
Good choice of music to accompany the artwork!
Thanks for posting this he was something special
A man with a massive VISION .... ahead of his time like no other.
Thank you for this high quality channel !
I had the honor of holding and analyzing a Syd Mead original at a company I worked for, as a creative it was a the thrill of seeing the brush strokes and other painting methods up close and in such vivid detail.
We let syd mead’s future down.
Not elon
We're not done yet, plenty of time to improve from here!
A true Visionary , RIP Sir
Sydney Mead and Peter Elson stood out as artist who have shaped the future of design, these artists have left a legacy of pointing the human race in a direction of travel and a beautiful direction it is.
His work is simply amazing
Mass Effect owes his estate a big royalty too, judging by some of those scenes
yeah i recognized the calista club on the asteroid city and another realm where you land at an asari city with merchants and the like
@@Mankindatwar Yrs the more you look at this video the more commonality you see. The citadel could be almost a touch up job, along with the some vehicles. I remember getting the art book for the original game and reading how they developed the themes, feel sorta half cheated now I'm aware of this. Not to say the original trilogy wasn't a great experience throughout.
Yeah, they certainly do. Did they give him anything?
@@nde1083 I'm Commander Shepard, and he's getting nowt. - most likely
I had the pleasure of meeting Syd several times at San Diego ComiCon - he was a gentle man, and an enlightened conversationalist. Had no idea there was a YT channel dedicated to his art. Thank you!
Didn't know of his passing, he's always been an inspiration. Thank you for uploading, love his aesthetic and style, attention to detail.
Attending school for industrial design, I was in one of the last classes that were taught mixed media drawing. Everything was going to computer drawings, obviously. Sid Mead was an absolute god to us students. This brings back fond memories. Thanks for sharing!
This is so very cool. I remember seeing his stuff in magazines back in the mid 80's. I've been a fan from the moment I first saw his works. I drew a lot as a kid and I always wanted to design cars like he did. Thanks.
One of the most influential industrial designers and futurists of all time.
Happy 2020 looking at Syd Mead
I sincerely thank you for introducing me to Steve Roach's music.
R.I.P to a legend. His art will live on for the generations to come. Forever cementing his place in shaping our visual understanding of sci-fi. Truly a hallmark in time.
Absolutely breathtaking stuff. His designs are so strange, yet so realistic. And the use of colour...oh my, that colour palette is absolute perfection. Everything looks so alive, and palpable.
True artist, we need more of them in this century...
Thank you so much for this. Perfect combination of audio/visual.
The best kind of Art is the kinds that tell stories with no words
4:27 is the kitchen in Blade Runner. 7:38 is the car from Blade Runner. 5:30, 7:16, 10:02, and 11:02 also was designed for Blade Runner. I saw 10:30 in a issue of Road & Track back in 88'. Thanks.
RIP and condolences to the family. As avid sci-fi fans I regularly saw his unique and gorgeous artworks. Such an inspirational figure. Thanks for the masterpieces.
I thank you so much for posting. Were I to know he was so close to me I would have reached out to the one who solaced my troubles so.
Love seeing his work. His art are a masterpiece.
I can get lost in those environment forever... he was a supreme artist and designer who made us dream for a better future
I was a deep fan of Syd and his design vision ever since 1972 when I was a student of Architecture... Syd was a true GENIUS among us! RIP sir... the world has lost one of its greatest futurists... besides Ridley Scott, Apple’s Steve Jobs was a big fan as well! Thanks for posting.
So sad he’s gone but he left an amazing legacy. What a vibrant and positive outlook on the future. A true craftsman and modern day master!
The breadth of this man's influence is nigh incalculable. I would give a lot just to spend a day in his dreams. The world builder of Bladerunner, Tron, the influence of Mass Effect's fantastic Citadel, practically the father of the cyberpunk genre; one of my favorites.
Rest easy, Syd.
It's really astonishing, the difference between great art, that moves you, captures your imagination and transports you to a different place and just a pretty picture.
This video was beautiful, visionary, inspiring, and not long enough.
Like Syd's life.
I degreed in Industrial Design because of him, and met him briefly at a Design Centre event with Colani. My ID teacher had met him and taken his class to visit his studio.
He's painted us a lovely target; we may yet be able to get there.
Never give up on the future.
Thank you for this. I never knew of this artist but it is exactly what I'm in love with.
Watching this just makes me want to draw myself, and jump into the future with it.. without caring about anything else.
I could leave this on repeat.
I was in a trance for 12 minutes. Phenomenal
Reverie; to be pleasantly lost in one's thoughts, a Daydream.
His art it truly magnificent and makes me ache to try my own hand at 3D modeling thing that could have suitably matched in this world, and 3D print them for ours
@@UNSCPILOT i encourage you to do this, start today !
When I saw Mr Meads art when I was a kid, many, many years ago, I was convinced that this was how the future would look when I got to be in my 50's....well...I am in my 50's and still waiting....
It is not only the Future that has been stolen from us by corrupt and decadent postmodern Capitalism. Postmodern Capitalism has robbed us of the Aesthetics of good taste and the optimism of Modernity.
"The future ain't what it used to be."
@@atomicpunk7109 and don't even begin us with communism. Am i right
Atomic Punk
At least it isn’t communism.
@@Emppu_T. Even the "free market" system has its decay process and its subsequent death. And that decline is known as Postmodernity.
Everything about this is just amazing to me..idn why I like concept art so much..great tunes too.. I've never come across anything like it before..
Beautifully complimentary images and music. Syd created a future I yearned for and yearn for.
Stupendous and inspiring, truly visionary work. It's sad that we still see so little of this vision manifested in our world. It's perennially a future that's always just around the corner, but...
Thank you for all your content. Eternamente agradecido.
Thank you for watching!
A wonderful positive vision of the future
The visuals he made so match the music that I wanted to hear 👍 great tribute!!!