Computer Animation Arts

You may recall DNEG's Robin Konieczny citing sci-fi artist Chris Foss as an early inspiration. Foss's strikingly colourful and idiosyncratic spaceship designs dominated the 'big books of fantasy art' of my adolescence. What I didn't know before putting this edition of The Supplement together is that Foss was also responsible for the illustrations in The Joy Of Sex! "It’s hard to overstate the influence Chris Foss has had on our collective vision of the future... Until he arrived on the scene, the future was a needle sharp, sleek-looking place that got less and less human. Chris introduced us to a human future, where space ships were “rumbling bumbling bangy things with bits of metal hanging off.” “My first break was with erotic artwork,” he says. “Because that’s what they wanted at Bob Guccione’s new magazine, Penthouse.” And strangely, once you know of this ‘other side’ you can see that it somehow suffuses the SF images too. An intimate familiarit...