Laurel is a Canadian artist who works at Blizzard Entertainment as a senior illustrator. She’s contributed to Lords of War, done the keyart for Hearthstone’s first expansion and has an impressive portfolio. I recommend checking out her professional site as well as the samples below.
Out of this world: A review of the Art of Jim Burns – Hyperluminal
Hyperluminal may be one of my favourite art books of the year. It contains an almost perfect blend of sci-fi and fantasy, the art is bold, graceful and stunning. Just as Jim Burns’ range of otherworldly illustrations is carefully balanced so is the mix of art and commentary. I’m not sure I believe in the […]
Short film: The Escape
Set in a post-apocalyptic future, Alessandro De Vivo and Ivano Di Natale’s short film tells the story of a man on the run. We learn that all is not what first appears when the escapee seems to have some cybernetics and is being chased by a mysterious hooded man. The Escape has had air times […]
Castles and robots from Peter Popken
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, […]
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 […]
