Wasteland Robots

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Diarmada

First time out of the vault
I thought I would post some of my favorite apocalyptic themed robot images...these robots seem rather lonely, as inheritors of a world that they once knew as alive, but now silent and dead...

Most of these are by the seminal sci-fi artist Mel Hunter, one is a take on Hunter by Gaylord Welker (IMO) and the last is by the great CG filmmaker Ed 'Emsh' Emshwiller...


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These are so great! I love the one's showing the robot attempting to mimic human behavior out of either curiosity or boredom. Note the "baseball" picture and the "painting" which has a beautiful landscape represented where only desolation should be. I also see that the area in the painting where a city is has a corresponding crater in the landscape subtly showing that civilization ended with a war that had cataclysmic bombs.

Sincerely,
The Vault Dweller
 
The Vault Dweller said:
...the "painting" which has a beautiful landscape represented where only desolation should be. I also see that the area in the painting where a city is has a corresponding crater in the landscape subtly showing that civilization ended with a war that had cataclysmic bombs.
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That one is one of my favorites too...I recently got most of these off of ebay (these are not the scans of the ones I won, but they are same issues), they went for around $12 a lot (4-8 in each lot)...so they are easily collectable...

Kharn said:
Last one = hells yeah
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That one is truly the most fallouty of them all...emsh won a ton of Hugo awards for best artist, but ironically not for this one...
 
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What the hell?!

That's disturbing, but I like the others very much. The pictures are kinda sad, but amusing.
 
Man, these are great. They certainly are depressing images, especially the last one....
 
What can I say... Yesterday my latest sketch book was analyzed to be "penis-centric" and "fixated" in a critique. :roll:

I counted the penises I had drawn and there was only something like twenty...
 
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Those suits are awesome.. thank you for reminding me


I like the "All-new! War toy" line too :)
 
Sander said:
Great stuff Diarmada.
Love this one:
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Yeah that one is great, the title is as awesome as it gets:

"Slaves to the Metal Horde"

I wonder how long will it take for Angrim to make the phallic connection with said image? Afterall, 20 is almost a Freudian apocalypse :)
 
Dia said:
I wonder how long will it take for Angrim to make the phallic connection with said image?
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Bwahahahaha! Those robots remind me of penises! Ahahahaha!

Erm...

Actually didn't see it that way before you said it, Diarmada.

My favourite's the one with oil can. Kinda ironic.
 
Angrim said:
Dia said:
I wonder how long will it take for Angrim to make the phallic connection with said image?
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Bwahahahaha! Those robots remind me of penises! Ahahahaha!

Erm...

Actually didn't see it that way before you said it, Diarmada.

My favourite's the one with oil can. Kinda ironic.
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Yeah, that one is pretty fallouty indeed, kinda reminds me of that encounter with the guy in power armor, the one that references the wizard of oz...
 
i like the one with the robot collapsed just in front of the oil can. Actually, considering the era they came from most of those robots look really cool...
 
I can't belive how people prefer those modern 'look I'm dark and have many hoses all over me alá Matrix-style' robots over these ones.
They simply rock!

However, it does seem a little 'stupid' for a robot to hang a person; they should be more effective and, like, laserbeam them to death or something
 
Zaron said:
I can't belive how people prefer those modern 'look I'm dark and have many hoses all over me alá Matrix-style' robots over these ones.
They simply rock!

However, it does seem a little 'stupid' for a robot to hang a person; they should be more effective and, like, laserbeam them to death or something
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Heh, I would tend to agree with you that hanging someone from a tree when you obviously have superior strength and/or fire power is a wee bit strange, but in reference to the story the art-work was supporting, hanging sends a message to would be heros...
 
Nice pic's the one of the looks like c3po (I don't like star wars my dad dose though) as for hanging him i thing he could have done it him self or it was done for artistic licence or story purposes. Have you got any more pictures?
 
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