What are some severely underrated sci if aesthetics?

Steampunk

This. Proper steampunk is underrated as hell

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>What are some severely underrated sci if aesthetics?

Late 80's to early 90's (OVA) anime- specifically, anything inspired by Masamune Shirow's work.

It's called Used Future.

Raygun gothic aesthetics with hard-sci fi underpinnings

Neo-Noir except more transhuman and the metaphors are literalized.

>the metaphors are literalized

wouldn't it also fall under zerust or is that more specific to the 1950's style of sci-fi?

That is literally 100% fantasy except one person has half a goggle with wires and a keyboard.

hnnngggg fuck yes
youtube.com/watch?v=eGTZLuuTPi8

>its not fucking dark as fuck

Not literal enough

Is this literal enough?

Oh god I fucking love this.

Cyberprep, think of the world of MMBN, computers were everywhere but the world was super comfy almost utopian.

I could not agree more, I just don't know what aesthetic could actually define that. I guess medabots is like that as well to an extent

Ah yes, all those toyetic animes have a similar feeling

Basically all watchable anime was made during this period.

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Dystopian brutalism, 1984 style.

Is that thing made of concrete?

>Basically all watchable anime was made during this period.

It was certainly an interesting period.

It's a shame DVD sets for some of those series are a fucking bitch to find.

>It's a shame DVD sets for some of those series are a fucking bitch to find.

This.
I kind of want to ask /a/ if they know anything about finding and purchasing old anime dvds and ovas, but I feel as though they would just bitch at me, tell me to lurk more, then go back to talking about the seasonal shit or model threads.

ebay
mandarake
yahoo auctions
amazon plus a proxy shipping service

basically your main options for out of print material from japan

get ready to pay collector's prices for collector's items.

I always liked that sort of sleek, iPod-style aesthetic. Most sci fi aesthetics either go with that rusty shitcan Used Future look or with some kind of gimmick like big crystal towers or gothic space ships. Sanctum is the only thing I can think of where this is the main aesthetic though you can find flairs of it in other stuff.

HOWEVER, it should still feel kind of lived-in. That's why I still like the smokey, gritty StarWarsLienRunner look of 80s sci-fi. I just wish we could get some more interesting far future stuff.

I think it generally applies to retrofuturism. Of course it wasn't "retro" at first, but nowadays it would be.

Even Pokemon is like that, especially the newer generations. It's all sort of low key high tech and idyllic.

Symbolic Clarketech.

Posthuman Superscience.

The original Startrek, I like the "cheap but functional" look. I can't stand the "Everything is polished white/glass" look, too hard to clean that shit. I want a future with pockets and carpet.

I feel like Questionable Content deserves a mention. Its was like sort of a cyberpunk setting from the view of sheeple. AI's sold like any other computer, early space exploration, big divide between the rich and poor, heavy corporate involvement in the military.
If anything happened in the comic, it could have been a cool setting.

In my sci fi setting this is the aesthetic for human warships. The in-universe canon explanation is that the extra bulk and stuff goes to protecting delicate components from enemy EMP/ion weapons and solar radiation stuff.

Modern cyberpunk, without 80s retrofuturism. I mean, yeah, sure, I like the genuine 80s stuff as well but copying that look in 2017 makes it look like a parody of itself. Yet too often people associate cyberpunk with the 80s. Cyberpunk needs to look forward, not backward.

this is why I spared some leniency to CoD Black Ops 2 and 3, lots of modern style cyberpunk shit

ahh the difference between classic and later startrek, I feel like the Orville strikes a good balance

>wouldn't it also fall under zerust or is that more specific to the 1950's style of sci-fi?

You're correct about zeerust being a modern reevaluation of the Raygun Gothic look.

"Used future" is basically what you would get if technology flatlined in the 1980s and we were still using the same IBM-compatible beige boxes 200 years later with no maid service.

I like the original more:
youtube.com/watch?v=mRzqjOyeSNc

Also, how could we forget:
youtube.com/watch?v=WLy5lSm4HQo

>this is the aesthetic for human warships

I kind of wish science- operas would go back to having a clear defined design aesthetic for each race that summarises them.

Star Trek used to before it got reimagined to death. While most new show either can't be bothered or actively avoid any races looking monolith

Humans could have bog standard slightly dated looking stuff. Functional but not intentionally ugly Let's call it Industrial comfort. Advanced while unrelatabe.

The arrogant space elf race could go for an victorian vaguely steam punk. Everything is dainty and made of brass.

The "noble" warrior race might go for something like Ancient Rome, or Ancient Greece. Marble columns and burning sigils to show they are Martial but proud. While the "feral" aggressive warrior race would just go for a full blown space mad Max. Crude nasty and smelling of diesel because they give zero fucks.

I always liked the Jurai ships from Tenchi for space elf type races, naturalistic things grown from trees made from some sort of crazy space wood, its a design that screams "better then your clunky metal"

The new blade runner is also pretty good for this, at least ignoring the intentional zerust monitors.

I always found Ghibli's rounded, almost organic designs interesting. Stuff like you'd see in Laputa, Nausicaa, etc.

Fuck I love exosuits, Elysium and Edge of Tomorrow were heaven for me. I have no idea why I love them so much either, they're just fantastic.

they feel stripped down and generally plated armor doesn't feel truly needed, yet, so having just traditional Kevlar or fatigues feels like a more efficient use of the power suit for speed and maneuvering

Because Miyazaki (and Kondo, koyamah and kobayashi) was fan of moebius.

Have some of zbv3000 Maschinen Krieger (mars pattern edition)

Yeah, it's good shit.

I'm a real fan of designs that don't seem like they're trying to look cool. Functional is good, "look how rugged and hardcore and functional this looks" is too much. It's a fine and entirely subjective line, but I like when things look a little goofy. I'm not sure if that seems more realistic, or if it's just the unexpected combination of styles that wakes my brain up a bit, but I like it.

its that key point where everything appears to serve a use, even if its not entirely aesthetically pleasing, as its clear that it wasn't some comity designed thing and actually put function first

I like the sleek no extras look. Like everything you need is built into the thing, rather than having all sorts of extra guff mounted extra. And if it's extra, it's designed to be extra (like gun pods on WW2 fighters). Less of the modern modular design where you slap scopes and grips on rails and put sensors and stowage on vehicles. Old scifi ships, that are sleek, rather than tubes with panels, cables and antennas poking every which way.

I guess it speaks to the minimalist in me.

some times I just look at a gun, think to remove the grip, add an engine, bam, its a ship

>le 80s was so good amirite

>Modern cyberpunk, without 80s retrofuturism

Deus Ex, especially new ones they're really good job with this.

Thematically it sticks fairly close to classic conventional cyberpunk. It's all high-tech and lowlife. But the "futuristic Renaissance" takes visual style in a new and different direction, even if they do go overboard with the triangles and piss filter.

>The new blade runner is also pretty good for this, at least ignoring the intentional zerust monitors.

Sort of. It extremely close to style and tone of original 80s movie, but comes across as more of a logical continuation of the world presented rather trying to updating into something superficial resemblancing it (like say what JJ Abrams did with the new Star Trek movies) or just blindly copy the original to the point of redundancy (like JJ Abrams did new Star Wars movies).

The important thing to remember is J J Abrams is a hack.

Thankfully Mankind Divided mostly did away with the piss filter, besides the Golem City level.

a pity they have the dumbest plot in making discrimination against the augmented into an allegory for racism

I love that aesthetic to bits. Isolation's devs put a lot of love into the style.

Space trucker is the term I usually use

>specifically, anything inspired by Masamune Shirow's work.
shiny lesbians?

I usually call it the CRT look, given the prominence of chunky CRT style monitors and similar interfaces of the era

Blade Runner 2049 did a really good job of both preserving the weird retrofuturist technology from the original but ageing it up thirty years. I'm gonna be excited to see its design stuff in art books.

"Used future" is just what you get when you design something futuristic to look like it's seen some shit. It's the design philosophy behind the original Star Wars as well even though the end result is very different from Alien.

Look at these stylish Tolmekians. I just want to drop a escort ship full of them on the party.

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And people wonder why pirating is so popular.

I have not been able to watch any of the Godzilla movies nor any of the Hammer Horror movies because they're all discontinued and wrapped up in legal bullshit. If they dont want my money then they can go fuck 'em selves.

What is this from?

It's not necessarily an aesthetic, but I don't think there are enough sci fi settings that strike a middle ground in the noblebright/grimdark chart without just being modern US but in space.
I want society re-imagined in a future setting with new social and political realities that treats it in a nuanced way. Anything original gets pegged as utopian or dystopian when I would really like to see something be realistic.
Specifically, I like the idea of a large interstellar space government with immense popularity, a greatly efficient bureaucracy and competent ethical boundaries that also happens to be an authoritarian and expansionist regime.

A music video(film?) by Studio Ghibli.

On Your Mark I think it's called?

It's probably among my animated favorite shorts

Bio(-punk)
Living spaceships, mutants everywhere, survival of the fittest, clone farms, 23rd century technology on 43rd century worlds, wars of flesh vs steel, hippies with photosynthesizing skin, elite with bodies than reincarnate/give birth to themselves to stay forever young, non-carbon based "human" lifeforms, literal mind merging, solar systems of carnivores, genetic purification, disease immunity/symbiosis, assimilating alien species, overloading your senses, new sports, new martial arts, bird people, mermaids, literal brain banks, maybe an entire living planet; the possibilities are endless

And you are 100% little bitch. What's your point?

But late 80s and first half of 90s was literally the golden period of anime. That was the only period before pandering to otaku took the first, second and last priority, but money was already pumped to make things look good and ideas were still realised on a basis of value, not how much fanservice you can squeeze out of it.
Considering the trend started around 86-87, it's not even about 80s as such (and the decade sucked some serious balls, trust me), but simply a golden period for anime.
You know, something similar to how Disney managed to sort their shit and produce quality stuff for a while in similar period, before it all turned into completely formulatic bullshit.

I've got a soft-spot for unfulfiled futurism. Something like Twilight 2000, where you can easily spot and recognise all the elements, but things didn't went tht way and thus the whole vision is meaningless. Or the design for... pretty much everything related with Alpha Centauri. Those are aesthetics that are testimony more to their own period than anything else, but still deliver interesting insights into the future designs and how our perception of what will the future look like changed.
Remember futurism before invasion on Iraq? Before everything became permanently covered in dust and sand scratches? Now just everything is dusted, with a bit of mud and some extra scratches to invoke used aesthetics, but for me it's something that will eventually fade away in few years completely, being "that thing they were using constantly in late 00s till mid 10s"

Analog scifi.

>projecting

yellow optics

I had an idea for a sci-fi setting where technology has advanced to the point where only a thousand humans exist because entire civilizations are automated for the purpose of providing for them and their pleasure and people are virtually immortal

your picture kind of reminds me of that, do you know of any good books written in that setting

>Whatever you call the aesthetic of the original Alien and Alien: Isolation. Chunky ass CRT monitors, space truckers wearing Hawaiian shirts, utiltiarian as fuck.
So, literally LoGH/Tylor aesthetic?

I really like the utilitarian look that some settings pull off, like the expanse
(pic unrelated to expanse)

I also love 80s looking aesthetics too.

Or just going crazy atom-punk is always great

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I like...colorful dystopic futures? it feels like everyone who paints apocalyptic/totalitarian/cyberpunk futures forgets that color exists. its bland and unrealistic.

fuck wrong pic

Elysium looked fantastic and all the tech was great but the actual plot was idiotic garbage.

doesnt perfectly fit your description, but you might want to check out Future (or something similar, I dont know the official english translation of the name so I translated it literally) by Dmitry Glukhovsky

I think it went through a couple of drastic rewrites, judging from some of the unused artwork. Same thing that happened to Prometheus.

RETRO-FUTURISM. Explore the cosmos with a jetpack on your back and a ray-gun in hand! Eat food in pill form! Explore your city in your choice of flying car or automated sidewalk, while on your way back from the spaceport and your shiny red rocketship!

Square robots with glowing red eyes! Oppressing planetary romantic primitives! Fishbowl space helmets!

All this and more await you, in the World of Tomorrow!

What would "proper" steampunk be?

It's still a blue board, user.

That looks like a one of my dad's failed pet project.

Do I love the BLAME! art or what. I just wish the artist could the thumb out of his ass and finish some other series.

"late90scartoonpunk"?
"cyber blueskies"?

That lovesick robot's huge frown makes me real sad :(