V'Ger Conceptual Art

Artist: Syd Mead (Painter)

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Title:	V'Ger Conceptual Art
Artist:	Syd Mead (Painter)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Prelim
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	82
Likes on CAF:	0 1
Comments:	4
Added to Site:	7/18/2025
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Paramount, 1979), V'Ger Concept Art. Vintage original group of (3) concept sketches including accomplished in ink, all on 11" x 14" leaf pages. Depicting the iconic "V'Ger", a mysterious and immensely powerful alien cloud, revealed to be a lost 20th-century Earth space probe found by an alien race of living machines that upgrade the probe. On its journey the probe gathers so much knowledge it actually achieves consciousness. The sketches highlight the multi-faceted, kaleidoscopic nature of portions of V'Ger's central aperture. Sketches exhibit production wear, toning, creasing, and small tears.

The Director of STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE,
Robert Wise, handed me a portion of the screenplay which said:
"They were looking at something no man had ever seen before."
The V'ger entity was conceived as a mechanical chaperone of planetoid size given intelligent self-generative powers in order to protect the fragile Voya)ger on the journey back to its makers (NASA: earth). The surface relief and organic pattern arrangement were designed to suggest an organic complexity of organization and a layered, evolutionary growth. Starting with the rear terminus, the following illustrations show the visual solution to a difficult fantasy assignment as finally fabricated for photography by John Dykstra's APOGEE SFX facility.
(OBLAGON p.076)

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Joined:	April 2019
Last Login:	January 2026
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artless artmore
Member Since 2013

1 - Posted on 7/18/2025

Awesome design! A piece of history

syd mode
Member Since 2019

Posted on 7/19/2025

artless artmore wrote:

Awesome design! A piece of history

This is the first Sci-Fi movie Syd was involved in, and since it was a very early idea before the color gouache paintings, it probably has more historical value. Moreover, it seems that these have not yet been published in any official print media. They are believed to have belonged to model maker Mark Stetson.

Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005

1 - Posted on 7/19/2025

So good with symmetry and geometry to have far out 2001 A Space Odyssey scenes for the movie. Maybe the highlight of the film with what it achieved in special effects.

syd mode
Member Since 2019

1 - Posted on 7/19/2025

Marcus Wai wrote:

So good with symmetry and geometry to have far out 2001 A Space Odyssey scenes for the movie. Maybe the highlight of the film with what it achieved in special effects.

There is TRON, which I will be design working on a year and a half from this, but I can already see geometric patterns like electronic circuits, and I suspect that it is because Syd likes it and finds it easy to draw.

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