Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar started off by teasing us what the movie would be about. This trailer lets us know. Okay, sure, we’ve a much better idea of what Interstellar will be about and it’s look and feel. This is true. I can tell there’s still plenty of twists, turns and surprises. It’s easy to see […]
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For a taste of what's inside, Andrew Girdwood published a piece on 2nd October 2014 noting: "Christopher Nolan's Interstellar started off by teasing us what the movie would be about. This trailer lets us know.". It also was tagged with Sci-Fi.
The archive of Andrew Girdwood's work continues with the entries below.
Computer animation so real that it scares itself
This is a works in progress from the hugely skilful Chris Jones. It’s created using Lightwave, Sculptris and Krita, composited with Davinci Resolve Lite. None of these titles, save Lightwave, mean anything to me but suggest animation is an expensive business. To top it off – the music is also composed by Chris Jones. There’s […]
A look inside the Ultimum RPG
Ultimum is a tabletop RPG by Paradigm Publishing. A mix of the computer game Borderlands, with Pathfinder and even a spot of Minecraft set on Earth a million years into the future the game has a distinct art style. Never heard of it? Ultimum isn’t out yet. The Kickstarter isn’t even live but if the […]
A bleep from the past: Commodore 64 Book – A Visual Commpendium
Did you have a C64? The Commodore (two ms – hence two ms in ‘commpendium’) was one of those early consoles that had a lifelong impact. I talk to gamer geeks who love to reminisce about favourite games they played on it. There’s good news for fans and good news for friends of fans looking […]
The sci-fi future as illustrated by Mark Sanford
Mark Sanford is a graduate of California State University of Fullerton and uses CS4 on an Intuos3 tablet for his digital work. Known as “MultiMage” on Deviant Art you can check out his gallery of work. There’s healthy mix of style and genre in Mark’s main gallery. For this post I want to showcase some […]
A first look at the unpainted Legends of Cthulhu
Warpo has released a first-look at the unpainted Legends of Cthulhu range. These retro action figures are the result of a successful Kickstarter in June. It’s already possible to pre-order the figures from a local comic book store with Diamond Comic Distributors or from Big Bad Toy Store Featured here are the Cultist, the Professor, […]
Genre-hopping drama: A review of Ecko Burning
Ecko Burning is the sequel to Ecko Rising. I enjoyed Rising even though I had to wrestle with it. I wrestled less with Burning and enjoyed it more. Our anti-hero is a full tech cyberpunk creation called Ecko. A mission goes wrong, he falls off a roof and wakes up in a fantasy world. There […]
Bust is no bust
With a whole month still to run the comic book Bust has made target. From Dave Cook and Chris O’Toole’s Bust is the story of a card dealer struggling to survive in a diseased world. [Back this Campaign] The first 12 pages of Bust are already available to the public and you can check them […]
Is Pharrell Williams’ anime It Girl too young?
A big artist doing an anime music video? Geek Native will be interested. There’s a twist in this one though – the central character in this video seems especially young. Things to think about; is this just the style of the anime or is she younger than the others and just what is the relationship […]
Which 10 comic book adaptations top the movie disappointment list?
There’s been no shortage of comic book inspired movies in recent years. Some have been better than others. Which of these comic book adaptations have flopped the hardest? Viewing figures tell one story but this month cinema chain Vue asked fans for another point of view. Vue ran a survey to discover and rank the […]
