Peter Popken is an artist who works in the film industry as a conceptual designer. You can see his professional portflio or his blog for more samples of his work. If you’ve seen Thor, Beauty & The Beast or George Clooney’s Monuments Men then you’ve already seen some. He’s worked with Disney, Marvel, Paramount, Universal, […]
Sci-Fi Articles
Read all of Geek Native's posts about Sci-Fi. This collection covers topics in Art, Books, and Tabletop & RPGs.
Competition: Alien – River of Pain
River of Pain is the last in the new and official of Alien Universe novels. Written by Christopher Golden the book explores the never-told-before story of doomed colony that featured in the original Aliens film. Ripley makes it back to Earth to discover that the planet LV-426 where the crew of the Nostromo found the […]
Man meets Intelligence: A review of On The Steel Breeze
Don’t make the same mistakes as I did with Alastair Reynolds’s sci-fi. Despite the mermen and the ghosts I found the start of “On The Steel Breeze” to be quite slow. I wasn’t paying full attention when a few small paragraphs described how the main character Chiku divided into three identical copies and decided to […]
5 tips for building good RPG rules from Synthicide’s DePenning
Dustin DePenning is the creator of the Synthicide RPG. The tabletop RPG supports planned sessions, improvised storytelling and tactical combat. The game is currently at Kickstarter and you can read more about it at the project page. [Back this Campaign] The campaign has just launched, with a target of $35,000 and a month to reach […]
Short film: Modern Times
Scottish director Ben Craig made this sci-fi short for “no money”. What we get is a effects rich, realistic, look into what “modern life” might be like in the future. As we look forward others look back. It took only a weekend to film but, of course, lots more time after that given all the […]
Light and darkness in the art of Jan Ditlev Christensen
Jan Ditlev Christensen is an artist based in Denmark working for Io Interactive in Copenhagen. You can enjoy his official portfolio over on his website Janditlev.com as well as the work he shares to his Deviant Art page. Christensen seems to have a broad range; going deep into fantasy or sci-fi as required. What strikes […]
Blasted and torn: The sci-fi artof A.J. Trahan
A.J. Trahan is a professional artist who’s worked at Midway Games, Junction Point, Steamboat Studios and Kojima Studios. He has a range of styles and covers various topics but the sample gallery below has a focus on his sci-fi art and pieces in the aftermath of destruction. You can see more illustrations and find out […]
Parasyte live-action trailers hit creepy level 2
Parasyte is an anime that’s being adapted into two live-action films. The anime is currently showing in Japan and streaming via Crunchyroll internationally. The anime is a horror. The alien creatures have a hunger for human flesh and need a human host to survive. High school student Shinichi Izumi knows their secret because his right hand […]
Short film: Flesh Computer
If the title doesn’t give you a clue – this short film is a little freaky at times. A cybernetic pet project (perhaps a cybernetic pet) of a handyman in a decaying apartment complex is put at risk by a pair of thugs. As a result the handyman is forced to take a stand and […]
Short film: PLUG
An impressive short film and directorial debut from David Levy. Levy is better known as a designer and concept artist who’s worked on Tron Legacy, Prometheus, Ender’s Game, Tomorrowland and Avatar 2. His art has featured before on Geek Native and this Hussar creature is popular with readers. The only human suvivor on Earth was […]
