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Moebius – a life in pictures

12. March 2012

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Over the weekend we had the sad news of the passing of the absolutely legendary artist, designer and comics master Moebius (see Richard’s post here); André Oliveira has posted up the full documentary seen on BBC4, Moebius: a Life in Pictures online, including contributions from figures like Stan Lee, Jodorowsky and more. Noting the BBC [...]

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Superman Vs the Hulk

8. March 2012

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These animations by Michael Habjan are quite amazing, especially considering they are fan videos, the animation created in spare time over months (and the original model work for the characters taking even longer before that), creating a fan-pleasing depiction of a slug-fest between two of the most powerful beings in comics – the not so [...]

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RIP Ralph McQuarrie

5. March 2012

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Sad news breaking across the web this weekend: iconic, award-winning Star Wars concept artist Ralph McQuarrie has passed away at the age of 82. Of course Ralph worked on many other projects over a long and distinguished career, including animations reporting on NASA’s history-changing Apollo missions, Cocoon, ET, the original Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek and [...]

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The Ice Book

5. March 2012

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Davy and Kristin McGuire’s The Ice Book is a mixture of papercraft, animation and video techniques to make a paper theatre; it is just achingly beautiful work and a lovely way to start the working week (thanks to Sarah McIntyre for the link): The Ice Book (HD) from Davy and Kristin McGuire on Vimeo.

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The Dark Knight in 60 Seconds

2. March 2012

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Rob C Nisperos uploaded his animated short that he entered into the Virgin Radio Fake Film Festival, a brief but cracking potted Dark Knight in just 60 seconds! The Dark Knight in 60 Seconds – Animated from Rob C. on Vimeo.

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Hugh

1. March 2012

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Hugh is a lovely, lush short animation inspired by an Apache legend, in French with English subtitles,  and created by more students from the École Supérieure des Métiers Artistiques (ESMA), Mathieu Navarro, Sylvain Nouveau, Aurore Turbe and Francois Pommiez – there’s really some cracking work coming out from the ESMA students at the moment: HUGH [...]

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Leaping

29. February 2012

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It’s a Leap Year, we have this extra day today of February 29th and as good geeks we all know what that means: this is the day we commemorate the work of Doctor Sam Beckett, who leapt from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong, always hoping the next leap would [...]

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No Robots

29. February 2012

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No Robots is a sweet little short animation by Kimberly Knoll and Yunghan Chan for their student film project at San Jose University, exploring a bit of metal bigotry in the shape of some nasty robophobia as a shopkeeper who doesn’t care for our artificial chums getting angry at a small robot apparently shoplifting milk [...]

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Big Bang Theory does Firefly

24. February 2012

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Here’s some fan art by Megan Levens to please Browncoats and Big Bang Theory fans at the same time, the nerdtastic BBT geeks as the crew of Firefly’s Serenity. Fab! Amy as Inara though? Crikey, what would she make of that…. And I’m sure in his mind at least Sheldon considers himself to be Captain [...]

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CrimeFighters!

23. February 2012

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Regular readers will know that each year I normally blog on any of the genre films I catch at my annual pilgrimage to the Edinburgh International Film Festival. In 2010 one of the movies I saw was a micro-budget film set in York, CrimeFighters. Shot in a crisp black and white it took comic book [...]

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Enterprise F

22. February 2012

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The Concept Ships site features a series of extremely cool concept designs for the USS Enterprise (‘F’ model) by Shawn Weixelman, helping to fill that Star Trek-less gap in our science fiction lives at the moment. The rest of the site also boasts some fab spaceship art, well worth a browse for SF geeks. (via [...]

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Nebula Awards shortlist

21. February 2012

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The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America organisation has announced the shortlist for the 2011 Nebula Awards; the contenders for this prestigious SF&F award this year are: Novel Among Others, Jo Walton (Tor) Embassytown, China Miéville (Macmillan UK; Del Rey; Subterranean Press) Firebird, Jack McDevitt (Ace Books) God’s War, Kameron Hurley (Night Shade Books) [...]

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Red Kingdom Rising

21. February 2012

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Red Kingdom Rising is a very intriguing new British Indy horror from Navin Dev, and one which, I am delighted to say, avoids the far too easy route some less skilled new film-makers take in creating a horror flick and thinking sudden jumps or needless splatter or sadistic torture equals genuine horror (not that I [...]

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“You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy…”

20. February 2012

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Mos Eisley, a real dive of a spaceport town on Tattooine where even Ben Kenobi exercises caution. But in this brilliant Where’s Waldo style artwork by Ulises Farinas there are dozens of characters from non Star Wars science fiction meandering around the dusty spaceport, try and spot ‘em all in his print. (via IO9 and [...]

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Raiding the Lost Ark

20. February 2012

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A couple of months back we posted on Jamie Benning’s ‘filmumentary’ fan documentary on one of the best adventure movies of all time, Raiders of the Lost Ark, a follow up to his previous Star Wars Begins fan docu-movie, and we saw a trailer – well the entire documentary is now online to watch free. [...]

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