Retrofuturism brought out by Lloyd Dunn in 1983, Retrofuturism is the imitation of early futurism artworks. Retrofuturism combine old school art style and futurism theme, Most of the times it reflects the future imagining images from early day artists. Like parallel universe It’s a possible future with old time’s vision. Retrofuturism Combine art elements from different ages, It makes watchers feel the déjà vu-like feelings, and achieve the visual effect that artists wish to do.
For the last decades, Retrofuturism appears in all kind of arts industrials, from architecture, fashion, music, video game, to illustration and sequential art. Retrofuturism is a brilliant theme for artworkers to working on. People create all kind of remarkable Retro-futurism arts all around the world. This research is to create illustrations and sequential arts with Retrofuturism elements. And show the possibilities of combining sequential art and Retrofuturism, Bring audience to the old time Science-fiction world.
In order to create Retrofuturism arts, this research will applying Retrofuturism style in the illustration and sequential art started from art elements and symbols. There are two subjects in this research. The first one is the illustration, four pieces of illustration art works. The second one is the sequential art, 16 pieces of a complete original story of Retrofuturism. This research will finished with 20 pieces, And discussed the main core style, history, and symbols of the Retrofuturism.