OVO is a short film from We Were Monkeys. It was directed by Mihai Wilson who also wrote and did the art direction and visual effects, leading a team behind this project. OVO is visually stunning but you may have to pause to work out what’s going on. The official synopsis is of a crew […]
Catching up with VS Comics: issue 4
At the start of the year I looked at Mike Garley and James Moran’s VS Comics (issue 1). This is an anthology of stories available across a few digital platforms. Since then Garley’s Eponymous, one of the four stories, has a book of its own and is worth tracking. However, the usual appeal of an […]
How to train your robot
This short video was done by students on a course organised by Platige Image and CD Projekt RED. We’ve seen CD Projekt RED’s work on Geek Native before with projects like Cyberpunk 2077. Make savvy use this teleport link as a random way to load up another short film.
Arpeggio of Blue Steel trailer
Global warming has resulted in much of Earth’s land being lost to the waters. It’s the early 21st century when a “Fleet of Fog” apepars on the oceans, armed with super weapons, and defeats all rival navies. Mankind can no longer even try by sea. Nearly two decades later, Gunzo Chihaya and friends get their […]
Karen Gillan, of Doctor Who, joins Guardians of the Galaxy
James Gunn will start to film the Guardians of the Galaxy TV series, part of Marvel’s phase 2, in the UK this month. Probably. The cast continues to grow in surprising, impressive and slightly insane ways. The latest addition is Karen Gillan who played Amy Pond in Doctor Who. Gillan has some indie credits to […]
Short film: Worlds Apart
Worlds Apart is an award-winning animation by Michael Zachary Huber and the Project X animation studio. It tells the story of a family caught in some sort of sci-fi or eco-disaster but tells the story through the eyes of a teddy bear. The result? A fairytale-like warning. Time to watch some more? Click this teleport […]
Short film: Fighting Spirits
Can a ballet be sci-fi? I suppose it can – if, like Fighting Spirits, it is set in the distant future. This animation is already a year old. At the time of its release Gene Kim, the creator, noted that he had been working on it for a whole year before Black Swan came out […]
Short film: From the Future with Love
Imagine a Robocop-like future where the police have become privatised. You’ll have well equipped officers prowling the streets looking to protect their insurance paying clients. It might be sold a bit like car insurance and breakdown cover; with ads telling you how quickly the police can get to you. In director K-Michel Parandi’s vision you’ll […]
Riddick trailer
It’s the third in the series, following from Pitch Black and Chronicles of Riddick. Pitch Black is now 13 years old, having come out in 2000 and Chronicles of Riddick is only a little younger having made it to the big screens in 2004. The plot is familiar. It’s headhunters versus Riddick, the planet is […]
Official Ghost in the Shell: Arise trailer
The Arise story is set in 2027, a year after the fourth non-nuclear world war. First a self-propelled mine explodes in the city and then a military member suspected of taking bribes in an arms-dealing scandal is shot dead. Daisuke Aramaki investigates, encountering the hacking guru and cyborg Motoko Kusanagi. Batou suspects Kusanagi is behind […]
