Master Airbrushers (Sci-fi)

Sublime Robots & Impossible Cities

03/01/2009

Craggy alien worlds populated by smooth-skinned, semi-naked women; gigantic, insectoid space craft glinting in the light of twin suns; sublime robots, impossible cities – before there was Photoshop or 3D rendering, such fantastical dreams could only be made truly real at the hands of airbrush artists.

Sci fi seems drawn to the photorealistic, as though its outlandish visions long to be given substance. And for me there is definitely a thrill in seeing science fiction rendered in this way. It makes the ideas seem somehow more…possible.

Chris Moore
The almost clinical detail in so many of the images perfectly fits a genre obsessed with the minutiae of technology. The smooth, textureless finish of the airbrush is futuristic, machine-like; these paintings are like photographs taken from inside an imagination.


Chris Moore; Jim Burns
The scales are nearly always epic, people are specks, planets and machines enormous. Where human beings are not dwarfed by technology, they are plugged into and subsumed by it. But there is always great romance too, beauty and sensuality abound; haunting, fetishistic, utopian or dystopian – these are images designed to arouse and awe-strike.


Stéphane Martiniere

Hajime Sorayama

“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe.” – from Blade Runner

Angus McKie


RESOUCE: http://5percentfake.wordpress.com/2009/03/01/sublime-robots-impossible-cities/