Michael Stephens is an artist, gamer and runner from the northwest of England. I rather like his Twitter profile which he describes as a backup drive for his mind. Stephens hasn’t done much with his Society6 profile, but has picked up 11 followers and has made this simple but effective Appleseed sketch available. [I fancy […]
Real enough for you? A review of Appleseed Alpha
I think the Appleseed series is underrated. It’s always been great fun and always pushed ahead to explore with what animation can do. Appleseed Alpha is no exception. At times, for the scenery, I actually wondered whether it was a photo still that had been animated over the top of. The animation quality in Appleseed […]
Short film: ROSA
This is an action-packed sci-fi with plenty of blood. It’s the work of Jesús Orellana, a Spanish comic book artist, and was made without any budget. Don’t let “no budget” be a red flag. This is impressive CG. We follow ROSA as she awakes in a post-apocalytpic world and quickly discovers she’ll have to fight. […]
Short film: Disarm
This short film from Andrew Kelleher is set in the new future and at a timw when robotic prosthetic limbs have become more powerful than natural ones – and therefore banned. The film, Disarm stars Scott Daigle and Aaron Alexander as a PR guy and a cop sent to repo the newly unlawful limbs.
Cyborg Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
One of the first RPGs I really got into in a big way was Palladium Book’s TMNT RPG. I loved the fact you could pick an animal, spend you bio-points to build a mutant and then start the usual character gen process. Talk about control. These Turtle Tech illustrations from deviant artist Justin Currie get […]
Doctor Who: A Town Called Mercy teaser
In this teaser trailer for Doctor Who, A Town Called Mercy, we see the ease at which the Doctor can sometimes stir up the locals. A Town Called Mercy is tonight’s new Doctor Who and it’ll feature Ben Browder who played John Crichton in Farscape and Cameron Mitchell in Stargate SG-1 as Isaac. This episode […]
