Personal retro-futurism

[Teezer]

Retro futurism refers to predictions of the future from the past. Numerous examples exist on YouTube of videos created in the 50's and 60's of what life would be like in the 21st century, most of which are wildly wrong. No one is good at predicting the future.

I happen to have this example of some retro-futurism of my own. I did the drawing for a Christmas Card in 1976, showing my idea of the future of the department store Santa. Thirty years later, I used it for a training aid while learning Xara, and recreated it as a vector graphic (I posted that in the "Hand Drawn Art" thread in the Corner Bar on June 11).

Now, I've recreated it with SketchUp. It's not a perfect copy, as I found that my hand-drawn perspective was not reproducible. And the file got so large that I didn't attempt to add the boy, the sign, or Santa's hat to the SU model, but cloned them from the Xara graphic onto the exported jpg.

As with most retro-future predictions, this one was way off. The technology is silly and the department stores still have the traditional Santas. But it was just for fun, anyway...

[Fletch]

love it! great explain, too.

[bubbalove]

This is awesome stuff... you should play around with "field of view" in the camera drop down menu. You might be able to get it closer to your drawing!