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How Futuristic Movie Computer Readouts Are Made

News Tuesday, December 29 by Captain

Ever Wondered About Those Futuristic Computer Graphics In Sci Fi Movies?

You know, the ones on those semi-transparent computer terminals that just look so unbelievably awesome, yet you search the internet for some kind of representation and you cannot find it anywhere, so you just have to stick with some modding software you got from a website that gives you something that's okay, but not brilliant. You get all angsty, realising you don't have the coolest computer GUI on the planet. You play more Warcraft than is healthy, because this world is no longer pleasing to you.

Or do you just shrug your shoulders and stick with green grass and blue sky and XP?

Well, we've found where the cool kind of readouts that you see in Minority Report, Tomb Raider, The Island, Children of Men and Deja Vu come from.

It's one guy. Mark Coleran. That's his job, making futuristic computer displays for movies that look awesome. He designs them just for movies, not for everyday, and they're just animations, and don't actually work in real life.

So be at peace. Let it go.

Be happy with that Barack Obama with a lightsabre wallpaper that you made. It looks great. Sure it does...


Here's the kind of things cyber-perfectionists wish were real - share the pain of envy:

Coleran Reel 2008.06 HD from Mark Coleran on Vimeo.

For more, have a look at his blog, Mark Coleran Visual Designer

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  Carl 7 months ago

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  lea 6 months ago

  He designs them just for movies, not for everyday, and they're just animations, and don't actually work in real life.
  THAT IS JUST SO PATHETIC
  Why bother
  why not show what actrully is availabe for us
  it would be much better for electronc and all other stores as
  people would buy more of what is available lastest products and everyone wins stores make money and people feel they are in the future using the lastest stuff from thier favoute movies
  yay
  make it happen people

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