{"id":1280,"date":"2012-07-04T18:57:34","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T18:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=1280"},"modified":"2012-07-04T18:57:34","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T18:57:34","slug":"3d-content-survey-recreating-syd-meads-vision-in-daz-and-poser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/2012\/07\/04\/3d-content-survey-recreating-syd-meads-vision-in-daz-and-poser\/","title":{"rendered":"3D content survey: recreating Syd Mead’s vision in DAZ and Poser"},"content":{"rendered":"

Syd Mead<\/a> is a major science-fiction artist, famous for his vehicle designs and futurological visions from the 1960s and 1970s, and also for his work on numerous famous movies. His alluring visions of a prosperous and immaculately-designed future Earth are still very influential today — as evidenced by the kind of prize money ($35k) put up for the recent Images of future transport: in the style of Syd Mead<\/a> competition.<\/p>\n

You may not have the draftsmanship skills of a Syd Mead, but — with a little help from Photoshop and DAZ — could you nevertheless create a Syd Mead -like CG artwork?<\/p>\n

Well, perhaps. Syd doesn’t yet have his own line of branded DAZ Studio or Poser models. But until then, here’s my new survey of DAZ and Poser content, in which I dig out the best of the most Mead-like items…<\/p>\n

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CS City<\/a> might provide a suitable background or two for vehicles and heavy-lifters…<\/p>\n

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Some of the Dystopia City Blocks<\/a> buildings might also come in handy, and the first two packs of blocks are free.<\/p>\n

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The amazing Mars Vehicle<\/a> is perhaps the most Mead like I’ve found…<\/p>\n

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Dystopian Aircar Aeronica V18<\/a>…<\/p>\n

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Some of the Flying Cars<\/a> set could also serve very well in a Mead-like scene, although sadly they’re for Bryce…<\/p>\n

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The Pacificator<\/a> is also a good choice if you like the more Tron<\/em> like models by Mead…<\/p>\n

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If you prefer flying motorcycles over cars, the J-Scooter 2<\/a> might suit…<\/p>\n

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Need figures for your artwork? The Bot Armor<\/a> (id 8101) is for Victoria 4.2 Morphs++, and (apart from the high heels) has a pleasingly Mead-like retro-future look…<\/p>\n

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The JICC 3000<\/a> looks like he might just be a bot that belongs in a Mead painting…<\/p>\n

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If you have to get a curvaceous girl into your artwork, then 110.1 may be the one to have…<\/p>\n

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A couple of the heavy-lifter items in the Psi City Sector 2: Jat Cargo Set<\/a> pack look like they might belong in the background of a Mead painting…<\/p>\n

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The Cargo 2<\/a> also looks like it has potential as a cargo-port craft…<\/p>\n

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The Gargola 901<\/a> could also serve as a heavy sky-tug for a sci-fi cargo yard…<\/p>\n

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A good heavy vehicle might be the Sci-Fi Truck – Heavy Duty<\/a>…<\/p>\n

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… or the Ursus hovertruck<\/a>…<\/p>\n

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By combining the wheels from the Storm Buggy<\/a> with “Dino Truck<\/a>” and removing the ‘dino inspection platform’, and flipping the whole thing around, you could get a fairly Mead-like heavy vehicle…<\/p>\n

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The Super Lorry<\/a> is a 3DS model that looks like something from Mead’s famous U.S. Steel paintings of the 1960s…<\/p>\n

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For Moon scenes, there’s a cool Moon Rover<\/a>…<\/p>\n

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And a free Survey Seeder<\/a> for Google SketchUp. (Also converted for iClone<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Some of the Retro-Futuristic Furniture<\/a> set could be retextured for less grime…<\/p>\n

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Finally, the GIS Orion<\/a> interior has Mead-like tables and chairs…<\/p>\n

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You could also look at prop and vehicle models extracted from the Mass Effect<\/em> videogames series. I’ve only played the first in the series, but I remember that the game takes some of its art design inspiration from Mead.<\/p>\n

That’s it. Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Syd Mead is a major science-fiction artist, famous for his vehicle designs and futurological visions from the 1960s and 1970s, and also for his work on numerous famous movies. His alluring visions of a prosperous and immaculately-designed future Earth are still very influential today — as evidenced by the kind of prize money ($35k) put […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carrara","category-daz-studio","category-poser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}