This is a cheeky spoof ad. It’s also a great showcase for animation director and Eamonn Butler and Cinesite’s creature animation. What do you think? Clever or puerile? Both?
6d6: The Kickstarter catch-up sale
Did you miss the 6d6 Kickstarter last year? It offered a wealth of products in return for pledges. It reached something like %330 of the funding goal. As is sometimes the case when a Kickstarter smashes targets it can also take a bit longer to put together. There’s all those pledges and stretches to […]
Free to Download: Cold & Dark at Christmas
It’s the holidays and the gift giving has started already. Publisher Wicked World Games have made a number of free downloads available for their sci-fi horror Cold & Dark. The free downloads include rules for a Medical Pod, a handy device in Cold & Dark. Apparently these rules were ready in time for the core […]
Only Leigh – A Very Fangirl Christmas
I’m impress at the speed at which Leigh Lahav is able to animate. Fangirls seems to be going from strength to strength. This Jingle Bells variant, for example, went live on the 16th and has already racked up some 160,000 views. What do you think? Is this a budding animation empire in the making?
You may not believe what powers this full sized LEGO car
This LEGO car runs on air. That’s not to say it hoovers air into its engine as it drives along as the video shows canisters but it is still very impressive. It was created Steve Sammartino a marketer from Melbourne and his super clever buddy Raul Oaida. There’s more than 500,000 pieces of LEGO in […]
6 ways to be a social Geek Native
Thanks for visiting the blog. There’s a growing community here and it’s great that you’ve stopped on by. If dropping the RSS Feed into a Google Reader alternative like Feedly is not your favoured way of staying in touch here are some suggestions. #1: Watch on Twitter by following @GeekNative. There’s limited chat from this […]
The 12th Doctor: The Oncoming Storm… or hope?
But now it’s time for the old beast to snarl at you for a bit! That quote is from Steven Moffat discussing the changeover from Matt Smith to Peter Capaldi. Here’s the full quote; “We’ve got used to two brilliant iterations of the younger, more popular Doctor and they have both been superlative,” “But now […]
HALO 4 composer prepares debut album
Enjoy the HALO 4 music? The soundtrack composer is an artist known as Davidge and he’s due to release his first album in spring next year. Slo Light features Stephonik Youth, Sandie Shaw, Cate Le Bon and Karima Francis. Currently, you have have a good listen to on Soundcloud. How come an artist who is […]
Boba Bullets: The Boba Fett ammo box
Seatle based Augie Pagan has 15 years experience in the video game industry as an artist and illustrator. More recently they’ve gone freelance and doing all sorts of other work. Case in point? Check out this Boba Fett ammo box. I like to think that the project might have been called “Boba Bullets” … but […]
Doctor Who: Peter Capaldi in at #87 on Google UK’s top 100 2013 searches
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MhJZpSyZ94 Google, as you expect, keeps a close eye on what people are searching for. This year Google UK has released a video summary of the trends of 2013 that features a clip from The Day of the Doctor. In their interactive report it is revealed that the actor who’ll play the next generation of […]
