This is a test movie – but well worth a watch. At 12 minutes long it manges to tell a complete story. The goal of the project is to “test a complete open and free pipeline for visual effects in film”. It was created with the free and open source Blender software. There have been […]
Gothicmade trailer
Hana no Utame Gothicmade is a mecha anime following Berin, a song girl, who is responsible for the “hope” of humanity. Gothicmade is being produced, directed and written by Mamoru Nagano who is also responsbile for character and mechanical design. Previously, Nagano contributed designs to Zeta Gundam and The Five Star Stories. His style is […]
Free eBooks and 50% off games at Dream Pod 9
It’s a good time to go check out Dream Pod 9’s online store as they are offering up to 50% off a range of books from their classic titles. The sale includes; Heavy Gear RPG and Tactical Jovian Chronicles RPG and Lightning Strike Gear Krieg RPG and Tactical Rules Tribe 8 RPG CORE Command d20 […]
MechWarrior Online’s Caustic Valley trailer
MechWarrior Online has a video teaser out to drum up recruits for their beta testing phase. If you want in early to a MMO mech strategy/tactics game then now’s your chance.
Real life elephant wooden steampunk elephant mecha!
The title of this post is “Real life elephant wooden steampunk elephant mecha” to which my only comment can be; “No! Really!” French artists François Delarozière and Pierre Orefice have built, from wood and metal, a working, elephant shaped mecha that snorts steam. It’s the most surreal and the most artistic mecha you’re likely to […]
Pacific Rim poster
Hellboy director Guillermo del Toro is doing another monster movie. Pacific Rim is a battle of robots versus a legion of monsters known as Kaiju. The Kaiju rise up from the sea in hordes and mankind, despite Jaegers, are loosing the battle. Jaegers are giant robots that are controlled by two pilots linked together by […]
Steel Battalion launches low-tech mecha Kinect game
This is an interesting idea for a game. Capcom have made Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor look very real and there are a few twists too. This is a world without the semiconductor thanks to a microbe that started eating them all. The knock-on effect is that technology stagnates in some areas but continues in others […]
Building a real life mecha
The video below shows what a small team in a garage can do. This isn’t a DARPA funded project or a big corporation showing off their tech. Nevertheless, this real life mech looks to be remarkable. It looks like some of the key motion control aspects of the build challenge are well and truly solved. […]
LEGO fuses Evangelion and Gundam
This creation mixes Evangelion and Gundam styles together. I say that up front because I didn’t twig from the title “EVA Gundam”. I heard the music and though to myself – wait, no, that’s the wrong mecha. Then I doubted myself. Wait, no, maybe… It’s a mix. That’s why. It’s impressive but it’ll mess with […]
Eureka Seven Ao trailer
Eureka Seven Ao is the latest in the Eureka Seven line. It’s described as a “proper sequel” set sometime after the original series – thus avoiding the “alternative universe” sequel that some fans dislike. The anime follows two main characters; Ao Fukai is a child being raised by an old doctor called Toshio because both […]
