I love this show, and I also love the intro. But I'm curious about the graphic symbolism in the intro. There's a bunch of stone faces....I wonder who the artist meant them to be? There are a succession of statues, and a red figure with hands upraised like tall wings. It kind of reminds me of Soviet art, or perhaps it is supposed to be reminiscent of the pulp magazines that spawned Foundation? The figures then dissolve into a red mist. Symbolizing decay of the Empire? A large grid design made of polygons is perhaps the Prime Radiant? (Oh btw I thought the Prime Radiant was a 3d depiction of Seldon's equations. Please don't make them look so much like a sparkly LED wall projection that Gaal stares at like an entranced child.) Again, I love the show & can't wait to get a poster, calendar, coffee cup or other souvenir of one of the greatest TV moments of my life...a Foundation show!
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I had this version of the books! I think it was my first. (1977) I lost it later & had to buy other versions over the years. I must have read it 5 or 6 times.
My guess is that the row of blue faces are the successive Emperors. Not sure about the rest.
The grid design has the overall shape of a cuboctahedron (the intersection of a cube and a octahedron), which is the same shape as the Prime Radiant. In the original books, the Prime Radiant is a cube. I think they changed the shape to a cuboctahedron because there is a nice fit between the plane of the Galaxy and the plane of the solar system that is best seen inside a cuboctahedron:
As for the overall design, it may have been inspired by this set of Foundation covers:
I bet the show is interesting to artists of all sorts and anyone that enjoys SF entertainment, but my love of SF in general and Asimov in particular isn't the main reason I'm following it.
I'm in for the maths and history ideas in it. There are some neat concepts shown there. Plus some other stuff that you can tell where it's coming from and have a good rant about what's wrong with it. It's good for getting clips to show in a presentation. And if you are hoping to raise funds, you need a slick presentation.