Saul Espinosa is an artist who specialises in environment design and matte painting for visual effects. Based in LA, Saul has plenty of experience working as a freelancer and has contributed to computer games. His style and other samples of his work can be seen on the site The Art of Saul and you can […]
Archives for June 2014
Browse the Geek Native archives from June 2014. This collection covers topics in Art, Tabletop & RPGs, and Console.
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Hero’s Journey brings myths and success to Kicktarter
Anne and John Ruthvern are bringing their RPG experience to Kickstarter for a mythic RPG called Hero’s Journey. The couple have worked on projects with Onyx Oath and biblioteque Interdite before. Hero’s Journey is an RPG in which ancient myth are active in the modern world. [Back this Campaign] This project has funded. The Kickstarter […]
Ramping up with the Iron Kingdoms Full Metal Fantasy: Monsternomicon
Privateer Press look to be ramping up their RPG activity for the Iron Kingdoms. The Iron Kingdoms Full Metal Fantasy: Monsternomicon is due in September. In addition to expanding the Iron Kingdoms Full Metal Fantasy RPG the Monsternomicon will also be compatible with the upcoming Iron Kingdoms Unleashed RPG. The Monsternomicon will be 100 pages […]
Visual analysis of E3
How did the big three players at E3 do? Don’t want to read anything to find out? These charts make some pretty clear points! Via Imgur.
Hacker culture: A review of The Art of Watch_Dogs
Ubisoft’s Watch_Dogs is proving to be very popular. Aiden Pearce is a vigilante (or criminal) with a talent set that speaks to geeks. There’s no doubt that Ubisoft Montreal have created an engaging and clever game; mixing hacking with a gorgeous open world. It is also true that part of Watch_Dog’s appeal is that it […]
Game of Thrones Edinburgh
The Scottish capital has been turned into the eighth kingdom by Steven Jefferies. Clearly I wasn’t the only one who thought his home city had the sort of buildings that would fit perfectly with some of the architecture in a Song of Ice and Fire. I just didn’t have the skill. Jefferies has oodles of […]
DriveThru Comics in the 10th birthday special
This week Geek Native reported on nearly $300 of RPG savings for just a $20 spend on DriveThru RPG. What’s going on? The site has turned 10 and is marking the occassion with a big sale. DriveThru Comics is a much younger site but it’s own sales page admits the following; DriveThruRPG is turning 10 […]
Short film: Biomorph
This is a film an evil GM shows to players along with the phrase “This is what you see!” Biomorph is a teaser animation project made by students at Danish VFX school in 2013. You can see how the scene demonstrates all sorts of modelling techniques and, I’ve got to say, a clip like this […]
Weapon redesign – minimalist splatter style
This is a wonderful way to turn iconic weapons into art. The Etsy store Harshness sells these designs as prints. If they’re out then a backup retailer is the artist’s Society6 page. The two styles are almost a contradiction. The splatter effect suggests that the weapons could be messy and cluttered and yet that’s not […]
Custom made Tron Legacy Nintendo 64
Deviant artist zoki64 created this Tron Legacy design suitable for a Nintendo 64. It’s all sort of retro-futuristic cool. These picture’s don’t do the design justice. There’s a three+ minute YouTube tour of the design.
