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31.7.14

Trailers

Mad Max: Fury Road... Wow! Sin City: A Dame to Kill For The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Hunger Games: Mockingjay Horns

Three Little Things

Three little things I have enjoyed immensely recently that I want to share with you...

Podcast: The Nerdist Podcast
What do Stan Lee, Tom Cruise, Brian Henson, Metallcia, Goerge RR Martin, Tina Fey and Joss Whedon have in common? They and hundreds of other comedians, actors, writers, directors, performers and creatives have sat down with comedian Chris Hardwick and shared their career and creative process in a casual but insightful series of interviews. The guest list on this Podcast is vast and varied and if you can't find an episode that doesn't interest you, you better check your pulse. Check it out.

Webseries: Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
What do Conan O'brien, Justin Bieber and President Obama have in common? They like a hand full of very straight faced celebrities have sat down with actor/comedian Zach Galifianakis (literally) between two ferns and shared a train wreck of a less than insightful, but FUCKING hilarious series of interviews. Check it out.

T.V. Series: In the Flesh
Zombie fan? Sick of Zombies? This is a very special series for both of you. Teenager Kieren Walker is a victim of 'Partially Deceased Syndrome' sufferer in a world post 'Rising' of the dead (that's old school 'rising' from the grave), where the undead horde has been 'cured' rehabilitated and reintegrated (or at least for as long as they take their serum). This series explores issues parallel with a community in the wake of civil war. What happens when the the defeated 'oppressors' return to the same communities they terrorised? How does a family (who have already moved on after their loved ones death) deal with that community's prejudice? What about their own? And what about the 'returned'? Is this a second chance at life or a mockery of what was before? What about the guilt of having harmed so many? This drama (not horror) is a holistic and intelligent attempt to envisage a real, post Zombie apocalypse.

24.7.14

Trailers

Big Hero 6

Birdman

Art & Craft

The One I Love

The Imitation Game

Trailer Space Station 76

Miss Julie

Ned Rifle

Dear White People

Predestination

Whiplash

Young Ones

3.7.14

26.6.14

Trailers

Fury
TMNT
The Hunger Games. President Snow's Panem Address - "Together as One"
Child of God

23.4.14

Movie Trailers

The Homesman Ping Pong Summer Obvious Child Map To The Stars Gone Girl God's Pocket X-Men: Days of Future Past The Rover The Immigrant Cold In July Third Person Captives Jersey Boys Frank Miller's Sin City: A Dame To Kill For The Giver

10.4.14

Deaster Bunny

When you do your Easter shopping this year, you might see this guy on your favourite Mars products...


But he looked a little different last year...

Retailers apparently found him a little... disturbing... so I was asked to give him a bit of a photoshop facelift; if it's good enough for supermodels it's good enough for the Easter bunny!

The original 3D model wasn't bad, but I think the anthropomorphism needed a bit of work.
After stripping out the high contrast shadow and colour, the real work began adjusting his overall proportions and giving him a more 'cuddly' look. The arms and torso were enlarged, paws articulated and ears rounded. The eyes needed to be completely reworked with for a more traditional 'cartoony' shape and the mouth subtly stylised for a more neutral expression.

Lastly he was recoloured, bringing back the pink in more gentle tones, purifying the whites and giving his clothes a deeper, contrasting hue that would work with the all 3 core products.

Below you can see a full flow from start to finish. It's quite exciting to see him on the shelves now!



9.4.14

Trailers

Fight Church

Venus in Fur

Ida

Borgman
Planes: Fire & Rescue
Wish I Was Here

Soaked In Bleach

Video


A short film about design for kids
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is Bullshit
Fanfarlo "Cell Song"

Creatives

Game of Thrones is BACK... and as brilliant as ever. Plenty of shocking stuff left to go my friends so buckle into the jousting saddle... And enjoy Mordi Levi's Game of Firms, a corporate re-branding of the houses Westeros.

The beautiful lightbox cutouts by Harikrishnan Panicker


The costumes of Star Trek Next Generation

Photographer Jonathan Cherry


 Circus A-Z poster by Ross Moody.