/r/bladerunner
A subreddit dedicated to Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049. The 1982 dystopian science fiction action film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, and Sean Young - and it’s sequel directed by Denis Villeneuve.
Banner design by u/neovapor
Welcome to the Blade Runner community. Before posting, please focus your eye on the optic lens in front of you. No need for alarm, this test is simply designed to elicit an emotional response so that we may determine whether to retir- err, refer you to a social category better suited to your personality. Reaction time is a factor in this so please pay attention.
Blade Runner Resources :
Related Subreddits:
- r/Cyberpunk
- r/DarkFuturology
- r/Dystopia
- r/FilmNoir
- r/Movies
- r/MovieDirectory
- r/PlanetOfTheApes
- r/SciFi
- r/Treknobabble
Also, join the sci-fi Discord server. A great place for talking sci-fi TV, film, and games! Discuss your favorite shows, find new ones, and make friends:
/r/bladerunner
107,674 Subscribers
22:03 UTC
Spotted Deckards wall panels in Voyager.
Watching Voyager season five episode 20. Noticed the wall panels from Blade Runner from Deckards apartment. Love spotting random stuff like this.
17:32 UTC
Qingdao (blue island) IRL 2049
16:33 UTC
Idiot watches bladerunner (1982) and is confused
I’ve never posted on this subreddit but was too confused to not. This movie confused me the whole way through. Loved the cinematography, music, world, etc’.
This movie was confusing for me especially in moments like towards the end. Why did Roy start acting insane, shoving a nail in his hand, licking pris’s blood. When he saves deckard it seems out of place considering he was chasing him around breaking his fingers, taunting him.
Also thought it was strange about Sebastian and what his whole thing was about with his weird little robots and was there a reason i missed on why roy and pris were so erratic or are they just like that just cause.
(As you can tell my first impression wasn’t the best feeling like i was missing half the story)
08:42 UTC
Adam Savage Weathers His Dream Blade Runner 2049 Cosplay!
01:13 UTC
Blade Runner Posters
I want to get aw blade runner poster and put it on my wall but I don't know which picture, can you help me?
19:36 UTC
Respectfully, some of the material from the comics undermines the mystery and open-ended nature of the movies
Like… SPOILER- the reveal that there is another Nexus-7 replicant is borderline blasphemous. I am curious as to what you guys think of this.
22:22 UTC
Unicorn
I just re-watched the original blade runner and had a thought, when Deckard dreams of the unicorn, is that supposed to be a symbol for original thought? Like, a mythical creature would be outside the scope of thought for a replicant so it’s possible Deckard dreaming of the unicorn is meant to show that he is in fact not a replicant. Let me know your thoughts!
20:22 UTC
Blade Runner (Game) - Art concepts / Animate background scenes [Westwood Studios, Eric Chadwick]
Eric Chadwick (Digital Artist)
Outsource Team Art Director In 1996 I directed an outsource team of seven artists at Mondo Media in creating pre-rendered 3D environments for the Westwood Studios game Blade Runner.
Interview:
Did your team create all the backdrops in the game?
A: No, we were an outsource company, creating contract art for Westwood Studios. The company name was Mondo Media. We made a couple games of our own, then branched out into content creation for other developers. We made game art for many of the big developers and publishers. I think we made 20-30 sets for Blade Runner.
Did Westwood Studios give you concept arts, and did you create a 3D models (Backgrounds) with animation?
Yes, they provided 2D concepts, plus a couple example 3D scenes to use as inspiration. We modeled and textured everything, and added the animated elements. We had a lot of fun squeezing all kinds of little animated elements in there.
Personally, I worked on the animated water elements. Puddles, rain drops, misty streetlights, and steam coming out of vents.
Did you convert everything at once to the Westwood Studios VQA format?
We sent Westwood the uncompressed render frames, as TGA files. They did all the compression themselves. We just needed to fit within the 640x480 resolution, at 15 frames per second, and four seconds of looping animation. We then provided the source 3D scenes, so Westwood could generate masks for the characters, to look like they were going behind and around things.
What you were doing in 1996 was a breakthrough technology! How did the collaboration with Westwood Studios affect further work? The game won the title of Game of the Year. And this is also your merit!
Thanks. We definitely learned a ton on that job. Westwood was transitioning from art tools in DOS to tools in Windows, and we were part of that transition. We converted several scenes from 3D Studio DOS into 3ds Max. None of the procedural textures would translate, like Smoke and Noise, so those had to be recreated. We could also do true volumetric effects in 3ds Max, so we made the misty effects into volume lights with animated procedural noise textures, to look like misty falling rain. We used the Blade Runner work as a calling card when talking with other developers and publishers, and it really helped us get more work. Jobs like the 3D Aladdin game for Disney Interactive, the Mechwarrior 3 game for Activision, Motor City Online for Electronic Arts, we got these jobs directly because of our previous work on Blade Runner.
Did you have any difficulties working with this project?
One tough thing we had to do was include animated people into one of the shots. This would have been prohibitively time-consuming to animate as a 3D character, so we shot ourselves on video and rotoscoped this into the scenes.
10:07 UTC
Unicorns and Happy Endings - Blade Runner The Final Cut
08:38 UTC
Cover for 'Counterfeit Worlds Cinematic Universes Of Philip K Dick' (new book)
02:56 UTC
Blade Runner 2049 | Neglect
20:31 UTC
ENVIRON CTR PURGE 24556 DR 5 -- my attempt to recreate
06:53 UTC
Adam Savage Weathers His Dream Blade Runner 2049 Cosplay
00:57 UTC
New Video - Episode 4 - Blade Runner Table Top RPG - Solo-play - Case File - Electric Dreams
For those interested, posted a new episode on the channel of my actual solo-play narrative for the Blade Runner RPG from Free League Publishing.
It's Day 2 of the Case File.
Check out the Video here: https://youtu.be/XXw030-3rhE
And check out the Episode Report here over on substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/ryanofthenorth/p/episode-4-case-file-report-rotn-01?r=z22x6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
23:22 UTC
The vpn signal is activated! To me my brothers!
Yo is bladerunner 2049 currently free on any streaming service anywhere in the world? Ideally Netflix or Amazon prime. It’s not in the uk or America.
19:39 UTC
Does this shot even exist?
09:13 UTC
What exactly is a replicant?
Before 2049 I always felt replicants were more robotic and built, but 2049 intimates that they're grown and engineered - is there a definitive answer in the wider universe or is always left ambiguous?
If they are grown, aren't they effectively 'human'?
18:34 UTC
rant about the series and spoilers :)
the series was kinda fun for a while, but there are certain things from anime that i really hate. such as the final boss (Niander Wallace), which i find him incredibble annoying, , the creator of the replicants has this typical last boss stupidity when he talks, like acting as if he was a bad written video game stereotypical character. And on top of that the main hero L, just cut his eyes to let him live so he would become the next villain. Another thing i really hated is like joseph risks his neck to save L most of the time, and we dont get even a kiss, and he kills himself in the last part to make it even hate it more. apart from that i kinda liked the series, except that i wanted some romantic action between L and joseph :) typical of Japanese acting all brave to chicken out when to kiss and find excuses in getting killed. lol :) i heard masse effect ( video game) has a bit of that stupidity like, i died 3 times for you, risked everything and did not even got a kiss. lmao, while the other chicks are like wanna bang. lol
11:51 UTC
The sub description has a typo
"It's"
07:40 UTC
Is Officer Deckard a replicant?
My theory is that Deckard is a replicant with the memories implanted of someone close to Officer Gaff. You can see he dreamt of unicorn and in the last scene, Deckard finds a unicorn origami outside his room, probably purposely planted by officer Gaff to give this hint to Deckard. What do you guys think?
20:10 UTC
I’ve maintaining this playlist for over five years. It’s inspired by Blade Runner and also A Scanner Darkly. Hope you enjoy it as much as we do.
17:32 UTC
The Most Stunning Shots in Film History
13:41 UTC
Scene Discussion- JF Sebastian helping Roy and Pris
I want to discuss a scene. Although I watched Blade Runner over a hundred times there is one scene that never really made sense to me.
When Roy and Pris are at Sebastian’s apartment, Roy is asking Sebastian for help to get to Tyrell.
Sebastian says No. But then he agrees without saying anything.
There is only his smile that looks more like he is bursting into tears every moment.
After that Roy and Pris are happy that he‘ll help them, although he didn’t say a word about it.
So my question is- why did JF Sebastian help them? Is he afraid of his own life? Or does he feel sorry for them? Or is he kind of in love with Pris? (according to the script he is enjoying her embrace, she is irresistible to him) What do you think?
09:32 UTC
That one friend who doesn’t say anything in the group chat
18:28 UTC
“All the best memories are hers” - I love this movie
13:29 UTC
Interlinked
https://www.instagram.com/p/C49ri2TrWgO/?igsh=ZWI2YzEzYmMxYg== - follow @officer.k.2049 on instagram
07:43 UTC
Back To Top