BRmovie.com: Blade Runner Souvenir Magazine - Official Collector's Edition

Left: Mentor Huebnor's drawing of the (approaching) spinner looks remarkably close to the final shot seen in the film.

There's a lot of detail in the cityscapes and in the industrial landscapes. A lot of it was just adding one piece to another. sometimes Ridley was involved in setting up the shots and sometimes he wasn't, but he had a general concept of what he wanted in all the shots. Quite often he'd turn upside down something he used as a spinner and stick a few things on it and it became a building.

The environment in the film is almost a protagonist. It's an implied menace all the way through. One of the things I was constantly keeping in my mind was that this city almost closes ion on you everywhere you go. There's something menacing coming at you or you're being bombarded with constant shapes and forms. It's almost organic.

If the air conditioning breaks down or whatever, you just add to the building, add to it on the outside rather thanfix that part. Leave that part and build something wlse over it and then build another building on top of that. It worked very well for the model making because, in fact, that's the way we normally put things together. Just adding pieces on to other pieces.
- DAVID DRYER

Left: This miniature model of police headquarters shows its intricate construction and minute size.