Fantastical UI Design from Sci-Fi Movies
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Looking at Dino Ignacio’s work made me start thinking about fantasy-based UI design. The first time I really became aware of motion graphics cooking up digital UI’s was probably way back during Minority Report or one of the Matrix movies. Being over ten years ago, you can see how primitive it looks now:
It’s obvious the operator isn’t really doing anything, unless there’s some value to aimlessly moving an on-screen tile back and forth. But the first time I saw it, it was fairly mind-blowing, monochromatic though it was.
Fast-forward to today and sci-fi movie UI is nothing short of jawdropping.
In the theatre we see it flash across the screen in too-short instances that never give us the time to appreciate them. But thankfully the motion graphics houses that create them turn them into “sizzle reels” readily found on YouTube and Vimeo, where we can freeze-frame them and pore over them at will. Here’s Territory Studio’s stunningly beautiful Guardians of the Galaxy interfaces:
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