Jabes writes: The crews and local businesses have come together to pay for this full page add in the Dominion Post today.
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Ataahua sends this along: Kiwi cartoonist Tom Scott comments on the ‘Save the Hobbit’ rallies
Ataahua sends along this cartoon from Kiwi cartoonist Tom Scott. Scott comments on The Hobbit, featuring Jennifer Ward-Lealand, Robyn Malcolm and Hellen Kelly.
Thanks to lotrcrazy for this one, Parker and Hart have gone fully geek on ‘Wizard of Id’ today, take a look! More..
johobbit from the SL journal team writes: Thank you to everyone for the encouraging and supportive responses to Silver Leaves Issue 3: Tolkien/Fantasy Art and Artists! Please join us on Facebook and give us your feedback and thoughts on this collectible issue. Let us know what your ideal Smaug would be like for The Hobbit movies or click on the ‘Discussions’ tab and tell us about your favourite dragon (or dragons, the more the merrier!), in or outside of Middle-earth. We’ll be printing your responses in Issue 4! Continue reading “Silver Leaves Issue 4 Call for Entries”
From Wired.com: District 9 scored last summer as a breakthrough sci-fi film that fused the mundane grit of a politically dysfunctional society with classic alien elements. Operating simultaneously as apartheid metaphor, personal drama and shoot-’em-up spectacle, the movie coalesced through an intensely creative collaborative process that was rife with trial and error.
As documented in upcoming book The Art of District 9, Weta Workshop practiced the design equivalent of Method acting. Beyond crafting cool-looking effects, artisans working under the direction of Peter Jackson’s go-to effects expert — The Lord of the Rings Oscar-winner Richard Taylor — embedded behavior and motivation into their freakish models of aliens, weapons and spaceships. More..