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Another Blade Runner connection
Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 7:09 am
by Crowley
I honestly had no idea about this before. On another forum I saw this concept art for Blade Runner posted:
Remind you of anything?

Re: Another Blade Runner connection
Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 7:23 am
by silent_snake
Well it is pretty obvious Snatcher has a lot of similarities with Blade Runner, but I must admit I didn't recognize that this scene in the game is from Blade Runner concept art. Although I felt like I have seen something similar but didn't realize til now

. I even have the Blade Runner Complete Collection DVD with exactly that concept art as a bonus (with some others also).
EDIT: Just noticed that part of that concept art was used in Alton Plaza:

Re: Another Blade Runner connection
Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 6:17 pm
by el_ash
Yeah I've known about this for years now....
It looks like someone on the snatcher team got ahold of syd's work.
Re: Another Blade Runner connection
Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 7:13 pm
by silent_snake
el_ash wrote:Yeah I've known about this for years now....
It looks like someone on the snatcher team got ahold of syd's work.
Well yeah but that isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Syd Mead did an amazing job, although he was initially assigned to design the vehicles for Blade Runner. He liked drawing the concept vehicles with backgrounds so he can better visualize them in a environment. But his backgrounds were so good that Ridley Scott decided to assign him as a lead concept artist.
Re: Another Blade Runner connection
Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 1:36 am
by el_ash
definatly not a bad thing...
I love Syd's work, and the work that Snatcher's artist's did.
I did alot of reaserch into Blade Runner/Snatcher/related stuff around 2002/2003 before I first got ahold of the Red Faction engine (the snatcher mod's first and short lived incarnation).
That's when I came across alot of the concepts he did that didn't make it to the film, i thought it was a shame...but damn...the film is still amazing!
Re: Another Blade Runner connection
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 5:52 am
by Keranu
Wow, wasn't aware of this one. That's really interesting, thanks for sharing. What is with Japanese game developers and using the smallest of details from American movies and stuff as a art reference? I wish I still had the URL, but there is an awesome Japanese site out there that catalogues hundreds of cases like this.