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this-is-cool · 2 months

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The cool futuristic sci-fi designs of Fang Yi - https://www.this-is-cool.co.uk/the-cool-minimal-sci-fi-designs-of-fang-yi/

#Fang Yi #sci-fi art #sci-fi designs #vehicle design #sci-fi motorcyles #futuristic art #this-is-cool #scififantasyhorror #digital art #concept art #science fiction art #concept artist #sci-fi artist #digital artist

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jbsdrawings · 4 months

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Fan art of Ducan Idaho from Frank Herbert's Dune series. This piece was inspired by a rendition of the character drawn by Jim Burns, pictured here on the right.

#character design #sci-fi designs #fan art #dune frank herbert #dune #dune series #frank herbert’s dune #duncan idaho #jim burns

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ex0skeletal-undead · 2 months

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Sea monster illustrations by William 巴特尔 Bao

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leidensygdom · 6 months

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funny celestial-flavoured robot girl with a custom made shirt (because these pesky fleshbeings don't think about 4-armed people too much-)

I had the itch to draw Argyros again so this happened >:) enjoy!

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atomic-chronoscaph · 2 months

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The Metropolis of Tomorrow - art by Hugh Ferriss (1929)

#hugh ferriss #the metropolis of tomorrow #retro futurism #modernist architecture #20s sci-fi art #urban design #architects #1920 #1929

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fleurum · 1 year

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the movie of all time 🐎

#nope 2022 #jordan peele #artists on tumblr #nope movie #horror #sci-fi #art #graphic design #*#*des #movies #films #nope spoilers kinda idk #(graphic design work 1/?)

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akm87 · 3 months

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SUDÄAN, The Nubian Empire

#character design #african #robots #sci fi and fantasy #comics #visual development #akm #nubian goddess

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transformersweatpants · 7 months

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Since I haven’t posted art in a while I thought I’d show off what I think is my best work yet: PCs and NPCs from a sci-fi campaign I tried to start!

#scifiart #sci fi art #sci fi oc #character illustration #character design #sci fi character #scifi character

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zegalba · 10 months

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H.R. Giger: Bar Museum (2003) Located: Gruyères, Switzerland

#h.r. giger #bar #giger museum #horror #sci fi #skeleton #skull #design #Gruyères #switzerland #2003

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prokopetz · 7 months

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Do you ever have a passive gripe with the way trade is represented in medieval/sci-fi/post-apocalyptic fiction? I can't shake the feeling that those are societies that have moved beyond the need for abstract currency - that such forms of trade are more a concession for the viewer to analogize trade to our world instead of offering some kind of unique barter for a world.

A medieval peasant isn't gonna want gold coins for jack because the next trade caravan is two seasons away, they'd much rather a useful tool or some extra fertilizer. Credits in science fiction universes can become worthless due to Future™️ hackers setting their bank accounts to extraordinarily high values, so extra parts for firearms and spaceships are much more useful. Caps in Fallout just make no sense in a world where food and water are few and far between!

I feel unreasonably grumpy about this and I wanted to know if you have any kind of insight to this kind of thing.

There are a couple of only partly related problems here:

1. The idea that the economies of most sci-fi and fantasy settings, as depicted, don't make any sense. This is absolutely true, because most science fiction and fantasy authors don't really think about that sort of thing – their settings only have economies to the extent that the details of those economies are relevant to the plot, which they usually aren't.

2. The idea that it doesn't make sense for currency to exist in these settings because most of them logically ought to have barter economies. The trouble with this assertion is that there's no such thing as a barter economy. Yes, you can describe what one would look like, but no civilisation which has ever actually existed has operated in this fashion. It's a made-up idea – at best, a spherical-cow approximation of how the exchange of goods and services operates in a stateless society, and at worst, complete bullshit.

Consequently, whether or not it makes sense for anything like currency to exist is going to depend on the particulars of how the setting's economy operates (i.e., all the details that that are getting glossed over in point 1, above). About the most we can say in nearly all cases is that we simply don't have enough information about a given fantasy or sci-fi setting's economic structure to know whether it makes sense to have currency or not; we can't just assume in the absence of further details that things will default to a barter economy, because – again – there's no such animal.

#media #tropes #fantasy #science fiction #sci-fi #gaming #video games #tabletop roleplaying #tabletop rpgs #worldbuilding #game design #economics #politics #swearing

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sabworks · 4 months

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Nureyev dresses like an 80s Star Trek alien

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spirk-trek · 5 months

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Star Trek Set Tour 5/?: Sick Bay

#star trek #star trek tos #the original series #film #1960s #film set #set design #leonard mccoy #doctor mccoy #bones #props #retro futurism #sci fi #locations #katpost

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jbsdrawings · 6 months

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The image on the left was done in Krita. The one on the right was done after converting the Krita image to a JPG format and adjusting the saturation and contrast levels.

#creature design #sci-fi designs #artists on tumblr #alien designs #squidhead

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ex0skeletal-undead · 6 months

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Greater Morula, Photoshop painting by Dariusz Kieliszek

#art #illustration #digital art #dark art #horror #fantasy #sci fi #character design #lovecraft #creature design #tentacles

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leidensygdom · 8 months

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In the same way the gods created angels to serve them, so did humanity with robots. Now, in some strange twist of fate, an artificial construct bears the same holiness given to celestials: And surely, they wish to be of assistance.

Meet Argyros! She's a new character for a coming campaign (an Aasimar/warforged Cleric on DnD5e, and an Aasimar/Automaton Oracle of Life in PF2e). I had been wanting to scratch the itch to design a robot, and she was the perfect fit for it. I hope you'll like her! I can't reveal too much, but feel free to ask, I'd love to shape her a bit more~

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catwalkvivi · 2 months

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Last night I had a dream about an alien woman that looked kinda like this, so I've made some doodles

#oc #oc art #alien oc #monster #monster art #monster design #creature #creature design #sci fi

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