ULU - Earth80 - Developing the Future part2

This is the second Behind the Scenes post about Earth80, the part of ULU 15mm Metaverse. Earth80 is near future alternative Earth in style of 80's sci-fi movies. In this post I am going to continue to choose 80's sci-fi movies with near future settings and share inspirational screenshots. Then I am gonna make terrain and convert 15mm miniatures for Earth80. 

The second inspirational movie I am gonna to introduce is Running Man 1987 and you can find my previous post about Trancers (1985) here. Like in many 80's movies about near future, the world of tomorrow of Running Man look like our world in mid/late 80's but with futuristic elements.

Los Angeles in 2017. Huge skyscrapers of rich citizens and shanty town of poor citizens. Like in Trancers (1985), old Los Angeles was destroyed by earthquake.

Architecture of the future.

Law enforcements. Police pilots; Prison Guards with gas masks and armed either with Calico M100 Rifle or Colt Commando; Guards with vests and riot helmets, all armed with Aug Steyr.

Typical 80's style computer interfaces of the future.

Some futuristic vehicles.

And of course neon lights :)

ULU - Earth80 - Developing the Future part1

This is the first Behind the Scenes post for Earth80, the part of ULU 15mm Metaverse. Here I will try to show the aesthetics of this imaginative world. Earth80 is near future alternative Earth in style of 80's sci-fi movies like Robocop and Escape from New York. To keep 80's feel, I decide to take clothing, weapon, vehicle and building style from these films. Thankfully 15mm.co.uk and Khurasan miniatures have plenty of figures suitable for conversion. 

Also because of my Soviet Union childhood, I missed lots of these 80's films, where I was a kid, so if you know some good and bad movies, that can inspire this project, please let me know :)

The first inspirational movie I am gonna to introduce is Trancers (1985). The film is about Jack Deth a police trooper from 2247 who has been hunting down Martin Whistler, a criminal mastermind who uses strange psychic powers to make people into zombies that carry out his every desire. This film portrays a method of time travel: People can travel back in time by injecting themselves with a drug which allows them to take over the body of an ancestor. Whistler escapes back in time to kill ancestors of High Council members and Jack have been sent to capture him.

Although there are only 20 minutes of future in Trancers, this film still can give you an inspiration and it have an amazing 80's style soundtrack. I REALLY LOVE 80's music but this synthesizer music is my all time favorite style. If you know more music in this style, PLEASE let me know.

Cafe in 2247, typical example of "used future" style. 

The earthquake have destroyed Los Angeles and now its called Lost Angeles. There is a beautiful LA theme in Trancers soundtrack

Guardsmen and their weapons. I really like their uniforms.

Police Trooper in grey uniform and Scuba suit.

Amazing retro future car (I will convert it into 15mm 3D printable model) and High Council of Western Territories. Why there is wet floor in Council Chambers?

Hologram and time travel room.