Before Directing 'District 9,' Neill Blomkamp Illustrated For Popular Science
Helicopter Taxi As part of that same issue, Blomkamp illustrated this taxi of the future, which promised (and is still promising, presumably) helicopter-like, airplane-speed flight by 2018. Neill Blomkamp/The Embassy We've rounded up some of Blomkamp's work here, and get some advice on moviemaking from the director himself. Now, Neill Blomkamp is the acclaimed director of sci-fi flick District 9 and the upcoming Elysium. But not so long ago he was also an artist at visual effects firm The Embassy, which contributed illustrations to Popular Science articles. We've got those here, and also caught up with Blomkamp to get these two pieces of advice on making great science fiction. CULTIVATE BELIEF "When I design something, whether it's for a movie or PopSci, I need to believe it can work. If I don't believe it, the audience won't either. What leads to a unified vision is when the director has all those visuals...