Watching the 1988 classic anime cyberpunk film, was one of those moments in life that left you in total awe and became a source of immense inspiration, which led to the discovery of many other anime and manga stories.

The film’s aesthetics and dystopian vision of ‘a’ future have influenced the things I think are cool and likely inspired design choices in some of my private work.


The movie’s poster is just one example. The composition tells a story, it is iconic – in its simplicity.

This iconic composition was the inspiration for my own take on some other well known stories and films. Creating film posters, for some of my all-time favourites.

It all started when I found an amazing model of the Spinner vehicle from Blade Runner 2049 on Sketchfab. From there I found some other amazing models and started to experiment with them in Adobe Dimensions. 

Since the initial Blade Runner comp, I have worked up The Dark Knight Trilogy and couldn’t resist creating a Batman Beyond film poster. The Batman Tumbler is also from Sketchfab. The other models were free and I have adapted them slightly. All the lighting was within the render and then colour-balanced in Photoshop.

(Free models are credited below)

Sketchfab model credit

“K’s Blade Runner Spinner” (https://skfb.ly/6xAO6) by Lor.Hang.Chuan is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution.
“Bat_Mobile” (https://skfb.ly/6R6nE) by ivinjob is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).