Art丨The most popular "cyberpunk" style, do you really understand?

? With the popularity of movies and TV shows such as "Attack of the Show" and "Top Gun," cyberpunk has set off a new wave of retro.

? What is the magic of this sci-fi genre, which originated in the 1980s, that has mesmerized the internet?

? First things first

? Cyberpunk (cyberpunk, a combination of the words cyber and punk), also known as digital punk, cyberpunk, computer punk, cyberpunk.

? The term "cyberpunk" was first used by American author Bruce Bethke in his short science fiction work Cyberpunk, and created a new literary category. Most of these works are based on scientific and technological fantasies, showing the cyberpunk era in which human beings and machines are interdependent under the development of high technology in the future.

? Speaking of which, we have to mention the famous science fiction classic "Neuromancer", which is known as the "cyberpunk bible".

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This book won the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the Philip K. Dick Award, three of the biggest science fiction awards in the world. The Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the Philip K. Dick Award are three of the biggest science fiction prizes of all time, and no one has yet broken this record. Author William Gibson not only created "cyberspace" (cyberspace), but also triggered the "cyberpunk" (cyberpunk) culture, showing people the pessimism and strong anti-utopian culture contained in cyberpunk. The culture of cyberpunk is characterized by pessimism and a strong anti-utopian vibe.

? Cyberpunk's spiritual core is embodied more through cyberspace, people's myths about technology, and anti-utopia.

? "High Tech, Low Life".

? Underneath the negative exterior of human beings, they have always held fast to their own positivity and justice inside.

? It is an anti-utopian sci-fi pessimistic philosophy, a kind of human fantasy of future technological life.

? The visual elements of cyberpunk are more centered around the future and technology.

Common elements include:

? An era of rapid internet and technological advancement, where humans simply connect to a computer and the computer simulates virtual environments with a sense of immersion.

? In a virtual environment, you can create your own "second world". This "second world" has all the perceptual functions that humans have, such as hearing, vision, touch, taste, smell and other perceptual systems. The real realization of human-computer interaction, so that people in the process of operation, you can operate at will and get the most realistic feedback from the environment.

? Robots or bionic people can be said to be a necessary element of cyberpunk.

? There were replicants in Blade Runner, cyborgs in Attack on Titan; Alita in Alita, and so on.

? Their bodies are made up of machines that symbolize power and reason, but at the same time human "consciousness", which symbolizes complexity and sensibility, runs through them.

? The giant skyscrapers seem to go on forever, with no end in sight. Gathered together, they cover the sky and the world in darkness.

? And underneath the skyscrapers, people living at the bottom of society mingle in a dark, dilapidated alley, crowded like rats in a damp, dirty slum.

? In this world, skyscrapers and slums, the two are in stark contrast.

Robots or bionics are arguably the essential element of cyberpunk. In the world of cyberpunk, entire cities are shrouded in rain and drowned in endless darkness.

? Flying objects are also a necessary element of cyberpunk. All sorts of flying creatures soar freely throughout the sky without restraint.

? The cyberpunk world is ubiquitous with streaming electronic neon lights and giant advertisements. Billboards, screens, and holograms occupy all of one's vision.

? Beginning in the field of literature and profoundly affecting the subsequent movie, painting art, entertainment fashion and many other fields, all the signs that the influence of cyberpunk can not be small. Many works of cinema, architecture and other works are filled with cyberpunk personality, through which the characteristics of cyberpunk elements are presented.

? The classic sci-fi film Blade Runner first visualized the cyberpunk style in 1982.

? The film's sprawling buildings, skyscrapers whose tops cannot be seen due to the haze, rainy and muddy alley streets, full of neon lights and billboards, and the visual composition of the buildings in terms of surface detailing tend to anticipate the future, emphasizing their industrial and mechanical feel. There are etched metal patterns, and the overall visual expression is like a compositional "circuit board", which is a combination of the most primitive elements and futuristic visual elements.

? In addition to Blade Runner, which I mentioned above, in film and television, Attack on Titan, The Matrix, Alita: Battle Angel, and other works are good masterpieces in the field of cyberpunk, which led the aesthetic style of cyberpunk movies.

? In addition to film and television, the fashion world has also set off a cyberpunk trend.

? With cyberpunk as their inspiration, brands like Randomevent and Softepin incorporated elements of their own clothing by keying in portraits and post-synthesizing them in 3D space, where the neon colors of the backdrops and the clothing made a striking impact.

? The architectural aspect of cyberpunk, with an overall industrial flavor, has a distinctive sci-fi future feel.

? Cyberpunk style and then derived from the retro-futurism, steam wave, glitch art and other new forms, the synthesizer wave, steam wave, neon colors and other typical characteristics of the 80s retro elements to give a new meaning to a new perspective and a new form of retro prevalent again.

? Nowadays, the term cyberpunk has gradually come into the public's view. Cyberpunk is a style of art that can be found in a variety of fields, and has ultimately become a trendy part of today's popular culture.

? After reading this article, I think you should have a preliminary understanding of this style.

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