It appears that Skynet has manufactured harmless looking boxes with the ability to fight back.
This is a sketch from BBC 3’s late night sketch comedy show, The Wrong Door. You can head on over to their website to see the first full episode online. I like the giant robot lumbering around their site. Such a great design.
I hope Sci Fi or some other network picks it up for American distribution. Just looks too fun not to share with the rest of us!
Wonder Woman and Deathstroke the Terminator have been added to the roster which is nice and all, but the big news, there will be fatalities! Witness the Joker shoot Kitana IN THE FACE!
Oh yes! There will be blood!
I don’t know if Green Latern has been announced but I would like to see Hal, Guy, John, Kyle, and Alan as one character set. Press a different button on the character select screen to get a different lantern. Darkseid would be a lot of fun to mess with. And I’d like some sexy ninja action with Batgirl.
I’m heading to PAX this weekend to visit my brother. I’ll only really get to go to the con on Saturday, but I will try my best to hunt this puppy down and play a demo. My interest grows.
This is a demonstration of PJ Holden’sMuderdrome iPhone App. I love the way you can scrub to the lineart from the finished colored page. Brilliant app for the App Store, right? Wrong. Apparently, as awesome as the Muderdrome app is, the content apparently violates Apple’s standards of decency. Apple refuses to carry Murderdrome at the App Store. Suck. I hope they release a jailbroken version of the comic because it’s just so awesome.
There’s another group, iVerse Comics, that’s taking a different approach. Instead of creating stand alone apps for every comic, they’ve created a comic reader. Individual comics would be served up through the app.
Creators can set their own price for their comic. They also retain all rights to their work. I imagine the comics served would all be subject to Apple’s decency standards, but it may be a little easier to get some more edgy content through iVerse.
Of course, there’s always ClickWheel. Their comics are formated for Video iPods and play as movies rather than static pages that you navigate through.
Of the three delivery methods, I think the Murderdrome application features the most sexy. The text is easy to read and scrubbing through to see the sketch, lineart, and final colors is just friggin brilliant. I hope that Infurious releases more comics this way. They’ll probably have to be apps that run on jailbroken iPhones. But the sexy must be shared!
AZM Ally Greg sent along this facial animation tech demo of Emily from Image Metrics. Instead of sticking those little dots all over your face and using complex camera arrays to interpret where those points are in relation to a surrounding volume (someone watched those Beowulf DVD special features), Image Metrics uses proprietary software that captures performance data from video. No fancy dots. No big studio. Just a video of your face as you talk. The software then interprets that data and maps it back on to a CG actor which could be a photorealistic CG version of yourself, like Emily here, or something completely different.
It’s almost lifelike. It’s close enough to fool you from a quick glance. But on closer inspection there’s something that’s just slightly creepy about CG Emily. The mouth moves a little too wide in some instances and the eyes never quite spring to life. Still, it’s damn fine work and is excellent for gaming applications. Not so sure it’s ready for the big screen, but certainly Image Metrics is on the right path.
So, did Emily convince you? Or were her perfect CG teeth too much to handle?
Make no mistake, Babylon A.D. is going to stink like a fresh steamy turd squirted out of the anus of a rotting elephant corpse. I’d even venture to say that this little animation of Vin taking on the summer blockbusters will be more entertaining than his upcoming flick. I’d further venture to say that Fast and Furious 4 Life will be more entertaining.
Still, it’s probably not a good idea to fuck with Vin Diesel.
Much like Power Rangers Americanizes the names of the Japanese Super Sentai Characters, Kamen Rider Dragon Knight Americanizes the names of Kamen Rider Ryuki. Henshin Justice has the exclusive list of the new names. Unlike Power Rangers, Kamen Rider Dragon Knight looks like it’s going to be a sausage fest with one female rider among the thirteen. This is typical of the Rider shows since we’ve only seen three or four women Riders throughout the entire history of the show. If Dragon Knight sparks off a new generation of Americanized Kamen Rider shows, I hope they can bring in some more lady riders. It doesn’t matter that the suits don’t have boobs. You could still have a woman henshin and kick some ass without metal cleavatude.
Anyway, I think Dragon Knight will kick all kinds of ass! Can’t wait for it to air and I can’t wait to get my hands on all the wonderful toys that are sure to come!
Little known fact, but Ananth Panagariya of Applegeeks fame is a fairly accomplished designer (read: FUCKING AWESOME!). I’ll have to corner him to ask him what his duties were on this gig, but one of the groups he works for has just released Snapture, an awesome app for your iPhone camera that adds quite a lot of functionality. There’s a free version and a premium version which you can pick up for $7.99. But you’ll have to haxxor (jailbreak) your iPhone. You can’t get Snapture through the iStore.
Congrats Ananth! The app looks fucking sweet and brings me ever so closer to giving in and purchasing an iPhondle.
Angry Zen Minion Olivier Lunardi writes in with an event that is just for all you Angry Québec Art lovers. From June 20 to September 5, theater performance group Ex Machina projects a forty minute video and audio production against the grain silos in the Port of Québec. Entitled The Image Mill, the production will recount Québec’s 400 year history. There is a video slide show and a nice documentary at The Image Mill webpage.
The maintenance would be very costly, but I think it’d be awesome to see a project like this become a permanent installation. There are so many drab looking buildings that could certainly use some video graffiti to sex them up. Every month or every few months you could invite new artists to contribute a piece, project it against a building, and have sexy video art year round. You could even have seasonal themes. Man, I totally would love to have something like this in D.C. Someone give me a large sack of money so I can make this happen!
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