Creatives

Illustrator Emrich Co.

An extensive excerpt from Creativity Inc, inside The Pixar Braintrust

 Pieter Hugo's strikingly 'pushed' photographic series There's a Place in Hell for Me and my Friends

U.K. Studio Grafiky

And a call out to all those who, like me, banded together to waste literally years of our lives playing the first great MMORPG, driving work mates mad with the tales of our exploits the night before and watching my fellow players out level me... Happy 15th Anniversary Everquest! (I played an 'Iksar' lizard man and insisted on writing all my 'S's' with a rolling hiss- Joy!)

As the in-house graphic artist at THQ, I worked on a video game called Deepak Chopra's Leela... I remember thinking (quietly) at the time it was a stupid idea and as we were all redundant within 6 months I guess I was right... So was this guy who featured it on The Internet's most horrible items. A daily blog  (see the pillow slip above available on Amazon, which would actually make a pretty hilarious 'ironic' gift'). Worth a read for Drew's comments alone!

Creatives

James White's contribution to the Hasbro Art Show

The Art of Ping Pong

Illustrator Pietari Posti

Concept art from the upcoming WOW movie

A wonderful book collecting Much loved stuffed friends.

Cosplay at home by Klaus Pichler

HAS BROS Art Show,

HAS BROS Art Show,

Creatives

 

Check out the latest game by developers Fiasco Studios Peleda: a free-to-play sandbox adventure game based on the animated series by Vishus Productions. I may have a vested interest in this game having designed the user interface, knowing both the series and game creators and most of the developers but... it's a gorgeous, fun and quirky little game! Check it out on the ABC. My kids love it!

Rolemodels: A gorgeous set of very personal game cards sourced from 99 exhibiting artists. A huge variety of styles and all stunning.

Photographer Zoe Strauss

An article from Co.Design on Make Art Make Money: Lessons from Jim Henson on Fueling Your Creative Career a book written to debunk the myth that creativity and commerce cannot (or should not) coexist by analysing the career of Jim Henson... I think I'll pick that book up...

Star Wars: 1313

One of the great disappointments of the closure of LucasArts last year was the loss of the video game Starwars: 1313 which in it's closing state of (now defunct) development looked like it was probably going to be pretty awesome.

IGN has a nice article on the game, or what was the game with lot's of gorgeous concept art, movies; including the demo and the revelation that it would actually revolve around Boba Fett! Check it out.

Videogames

Dying Light (Pre Alpha trailer) The Wolf Among Us (The Walking Dead creators do the Fables comic)
Blood Dragon Michael Biehn parodying himself and every awesome 80's action movie ever with an oldschool FPS which does away with all those overly complex COD button combos. A perfect soundtrack homage, SNES cut scenes, and the best tutorial system ever and nothing to do with it's Farcry foundation. This is a breath of fresh air to which I literally laughed out loud playing it!

Video Short: Fallout Nuka Break: Red Star

Fallout Nuka Break: Red Star (fan film)

The Walking Dead: 400 Days

I just realised that I haven't played a video game since The Walking Dead. Nothing has grabbed me (though The Last of Us has got me in its sights) like this did; a game that I think non gamers, non Zombiphiles and non Walking Dead fans could enjoy as much as any diehard. So I was pretty excited to hear the original creators have a new chapter on the way with a very different setup. There is a bit of a nothing trailer around at the moment but the above feature's it along with an interview with the creators.

Podcast: The Fourth pLayer

While 'pushing' one of my favourite things (table top Roleplaying games) on fellow ex-THQ employee, Paul 'Hot Lips' Houlihan, I discovered that he is busy with another one of my favourite things, a fantastic new Podcast!
With 17 episodes so far, The Fourth Player is a genuinely insightful, informative and engaging podcast. Presenting a casual, round table discussion of video games, the crew have a great chemistry, good production values and varied content.
Of particular interest is the fact that each of its members come from varying backgrounds within the industry itself and very different tastes in games and preference for platform; making for lively (and amusing) debate.
More than just a plug, I genuinely recommend the Podcast... I'm trawling through it right now... And I can't get that theme song out of my head!

Trailers

The Last of Us (Video Game)
Downloaded (Napster Doco)

The Girl

Obvlivion

After Earth

Pacific Rim

Man of Steel


Welcome To the Punch

The Lone Ranger

Arrr!

A Logo for video game Arrr! I designed while working at Infinite Interactive. Still proud of this one... 

Dead End Thrills

A site dedicated to the beauty and brilliance of video games through screenshots.

Art of the Arcade

A wonderful site dedicated to the visual relics of gaming Art of the Arcade

PAX in Oz

For those who don't know, PAX is a convention run for and by gamers, lovers of gaming/geek/pop culture,  but more specifically, by the boys at one of my favourite webcomics Penny Arcade and PAX is coming to Oz!

Black Mesa

Fan made update using Source of one of the best videogames ever made... the original Halflife.

D's Difficulty

Came across this little image I did while cleaning up my filespace. It's a series of icons for the difficulty selection for: Puzzle Chronicles, showing increasing difficulty from left to right... Sorry, it just still cracks me up...

COPS: Skyrim

Combining one of my favourite video games with my biggest guilty pleasure... Awesome...

SWTOR Free! (sort of)

Star Wars: The Old Republic has gone free to play up top level 15, check it out...

Or check out this Star Wars Fun Run!

Splat Attack

Good friend of mine, Bart Klepka and his fellow crew at Melbourne Video game developers Cupco Games have released their first title: Splat Attack. Currently available for an unBEElievable 99c on itunes

R18+ Passed Through Australian Parliament

Jason Clare, the Minister for Home Affairs has just announced that R18+ for games is set to become a reality, after legislation successfully passing through the Federal Parliament, having just gone through the Senate without amendment.

Check out the full link on Kotaku

Video Game Trailers

Video games have changed. We have the AAA titles and we have phone apps and the middle ground (along with its developers) are fading away. But then there's those games which take a great 'little game' idea and marry it to some AAA, beautiful and well executed art direction and make something different all together. I hope the game is as good as this trailer for Deadlight.


This is not an awesome trailer, but it is a clever post modern one... By the folks who brought you one of the best trailers ever (video game, movie or otherwise), this is Mad Riders.