AME Exhibition Helm’s Deep Model – The Making Of
James writes: Hello there! It’s been over three weeks since the AME Exhibition in Malta showcased, for the...
Continue readingUrban up for Bones Role in Star Trek
Ataahua sends this along: Kiwi actor Karl Urban is reportedly in talks to play Dr Leonard ‘Bones’ McCoy...
Continue readingMcKellen keen to be Gandalf in ‘Hobbit’
Sir Ian McKellen has said that he would like to reprise the role of Gandalf if there is...
Continue readingThe many faces of Cate Blanchett
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — It seems no iconic figure is beyond Cate Blanchett, who shot to stardom...
Continue readingJohn Howe’s Journal: Paint Your Dragon
With kind permission John Howe has allowed us to re-print his newsletter entries as they are released. Take a look at the latest edition! Paint Your Dragon (Or Of The Topography of Tesseracts and the Ineffable Benefits of Entasis): I spend a fair bit of time pondering the imponderables (that's why it takes time) of fantasy imagery. Fantasy imagery has been happening for a long time. In fact no culture, ever, has created ONLY realistic, down-to-earth, day-to-day and otherwise familiar imagery. Everything we set our eyes upon is deified, vilifeid, praised or ridiculed, or, with surprising regularity, sublimated by our desires and aspirations. Hence our dawning century of fantasy art, with little fantasy artists scattered the world over, who peer into looking glasses darkly Alice-fashion, hoping for a glimpse of the invisible, a hint of the ineffable, in the hopes of transcribing the sparkle of that particular glamour on paper/canvas/screen.
Continue readingNew WETA Book: Grordbort’s Contrapulatronic Dingus Directory
Weta Publishing is pleased to announce its upcoming Weta Originals/Dark Horse Comics publication: Doctor Grordbort’s Contrapulatronic Dingus Directory....
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