Stop motions are very demanding on your time. Each tiny movement means a change, a photograph and an ever-expanding animation. Imagine how long it would take to put together a stop motion animation of a LEGO Death Star coming together. Okay, that’s your starting point. Imagine you also need to animate each step so the […]
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Lightsabres into halos
I’ve found it hard to blog about any of the celebrity deaths in 2016. There will be as many in 2017. We’ll keep loosing some amazing icons and incredible talent. It’s hard to blog about the news since it’s so widely covered, what can Geek Native add, and how can the site avoid the trap […]
Escape into the art of Chen Zhe
Chen Zhe is a Chinese artist who easily ranges from sci-fi to fantasy, from landscape to character, and back again. His recent work has been for Bean Studio.
Amazing D&D Kenku costume
Kenku are bird people. Dungeons & Dragons 5e give you the option to have them as playable characters. Seattle based illustrator and video game artist Rah-Bop took things further and turned her D&D Kenku, Rue, into a costume. If you pop over to Rah’s Deviant Art page you’ll be able to tell that she’s full […]
Phil Postma’s Santa Corpse
[I need this!] We’ve long featured Mr Minion Factory, Phil Postma, on Geek Native. The samurai Thundercats are popular but I’m especially fond of his World War 2 bomber art Star Wars mashup The Art of War. Since it’s Christmas let’s check out the latest addition to his t-shirt store. You too could become Santa […]
The Cat Ark has +3 defense
Many geeks have built impressive constructions from cardboard. Cosplayers and LARPers may have used it in costume and props. Tabletop gamers may well have built GM shields and dice towers. You’ll find wargamers with whole towns build from paper. Building an armoured duck fort – for a cat – out of cardboard is a whole […]
Dark-side or Droid? Sports Bra Wars
Here’s an interesting collection from the robotic monkeys at Think Geek. Sports Bra and boyshorts collections strong with the Force. It looks like the holiday season has resulted in stocks running low but there’s essentially three combinations you can go for; Darth Vader, BB-8 and R2-D2. Although I suppose you could mix and match to […]
5 stunning illustrations from ArseniXC
You can find ArseniXC over at Deviant Art where he’s been for at least 8 years. Interestingly, you can also tune into ArseniXC’s Twitch channel. The Russian artist isn’t available for commisions, works in both 2d and 3d and likes realism, anime and comics. Sounds about right to me!
Behold this Stranger Things lithograph
[Make this mine] Barry Blankenship’s design for a Stranger Things poster is an uncoated lithograph with glow layer. I can only imagine how well that glow effect will work in the dim light but I suspect it’ll be all types of awesome. Tempted? Grab one from Dark Ink before the limited run sells out.
Turn your dull teapot into a steampunk R2-D2
This video is from the AWE Artist Series and has Marissa Deal put together a steampunk R2-D2. This particular steampunk droid is also a fully functional kettle. AWE call it a teapot, but it’s the device that makes the water boil, not the pot that brews the tea. Steampunkers pick up on that sort of […]
