I know we have more than a few Blade Runner fanatics lurking around the sewer (I among them) and so I couldn’t help tossing up this embeddable version of a 1982 Blade Runner concept art book that has been long out of print. This is a book that goes for $200-$400 if you buy it used from a vendor on Amazon, so it’s not something you’re likely to find in the hands of the cross-legged teenager you trip over in the aisles of a B&N.
Filled with dozens of images by lead designer Syd Mead, Mentor Huebner, costume designer Charles Knode and even Ridely Scott himself, this is a cool collection of pre-viz artwork that you won’t see collected like this elsewhere. That said, I’m sure some of this stuff has been recycled in other books or on the mega-ultimate collection from a few years ago. Regardless, it’s a mostly lost little piece of film history that gets a new life on the web. Take a look.
(via Buzzfeed and super-Chewer Gray Whitten)
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There’s also a book of the illustrated screenplay with some of Sherman Labby’s storyboards and a few years ago a set-copy of Labby’s storyboards were sold at an on-line auction.
I have a copy of that Illustrated script, and I was actually reading it through just a few weeks back in conjunction with an art challenge over at IFX. It’s a very interesting book…
I’ve got a copy of the sketchbook in a cupboard somewhere gathering dust. If any one wants to pay me silly money for it i’m all ears.
Another one for the Too Much Awesome Dept.. Thanks so very much, especially for the Ridleygrams. He so needs to collaborate with Giraud on a Prometheus comic.
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