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Some lovely concept art here:
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/disney/johncarter/gallery/

This is truly outstanding!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=E_KYUF6pxR8

Folks!

Here's one of the reason's why I've not been around on the board much over the last two months. My company has just finished creating all the graphics for a massive show for one of our clients.

Steve Green has been hard at it creating a little animation for us on You Tube, check out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7BiPSGU9xo&feature=feedu

Steve has been an absolute pleasure to work with on this and I recommend him to anyone. He's been a consummate professional through and through and has certainly delivered the goods in bucket loads.

Thanks Steve you are a star!

Hive mind can you please help me.

I have a 14 year old son who has difficulty reading, he's not dyslexic we've had tests done and although he's deemed to have tendencies I think it's just the idea for reading that bores him, as well as scares him. I've spoken with his teacher, and ended up finding him a comic book fan as well and we thought comics would be an ideal way of getting Ben to read.

So my question is where do I start, what do you suggest that I buy him? He likes army stories, he's an army cadet, sci-Fi, boys stuff etc. But I don't want it to be too adult with regards to sexual content (so you can forget recommending 'The Boy's) violence and arms and legs flying off heads lopped off etc. He loves :-) so mild horror or comedy horror would be fine...

Any suggestions folks would be a great help. Cheers.

I was just settling down last night to the last crumbs of the festive feast with a warm mince pie and some ice-cream. My wife promptly plopped a warm mince pie into my bowl and I had to take a picture.

It's Mongrol!

Has anyone else discovered 2000AD imagery weirdly warped into the fabric of reality, either food related fictional figures or other 'The Tooth is out there' type epiphanies?

If so post them here...

Charlbot has just let me know over the phone, Christmas starts here!

First concept drawings released

http://www.thehdroom.com/news/First-Look-Battlestar-Galactica-Blood-and-Chrome-Concept-Art/8114

Giant Robots, Ninjas, WW1 fighter planes, Sci-Fi cities, looks awesome...

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/wb/suckerpunch/

Alan Moore is a gem!

http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/local/seasonal_gift_from_a_famous_resident_1_1681009

Well done Alan, sterling contribution.

In this weather folks, please check on your elderly neighbours and see if they're alright, doesn't do any harm.

More collectible fodder to feed Ebay:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1330994/Transformer-Spastic-UK-launch-scrapped-fears-cause-offence.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Biz's done some bizness with Oakley - looks pretty damn fine as well...

http://mylegionstory.com/

Second World never ended in 1944 after the failure of D-Day following the United States removal of its' troops to fight the Japan / Russian Axis following the invasion of Mexico in 1943. We carried on fighting a very bloody war until the early 1960's, when after many losses on all sides a truce was signed. The World was changed dramatically, and technology advanced exponentially over the war years. The British forces Technology Division, led by Prof. Barnes Wallace, created many devastating new weapons of war. In 1952 Comms Officer, Corporal Thomas "The Mike" Marrison was fighting with 'Monty' in the Western Desert with the 8th Armoured Division. An accomplished amateur artist Thomas spent most of his downtime illustrating the war, but his work never came to light until his Grandson discovered his sketch discs, on an old Bengine in the attic, after his death.

Drawn entirely on his digital bPad (Babbage Pad), Thomas's sketches of the machines of war that he served with have become an invaluable resource for historians. Over the next few months we will be restoring the sketches of his work from the old discs and reassembling the pixels into their original format.

Here is the first sketch, which we believe is the first Vehicle Thomas served on - a stripped down light-weight recon Walker, desertised called an FAW (Frontline Armoured Walker). The troops named it the Flunky Chicken due to it's jerky walking technique, and the fact it broke down (flunked) more time than it worked. It was fast - but trying to accurately fire a weapon whilst moving was impossible. The fact that the FAW had to stop in order to fire made it an easy target for the enemy. When it did work it was an impressive machine, armed to the teeth and perfectly built for the desert conditions.

We believe the figure in the sketch is Commander Liam Marshall, a much decorated soldier who lasted the war and served his Army career out as a Brigadier in the Great Battle of '62 where he led the British to victory against the Chinese in Burma, where his GMD (Giant Missile Droids) devastated swathes of jungle, and destroyed all the frontline Elephant Guns leaving a passage open for Infantry.

IMAGE: 2010/11/0001_FAW

At work, as per the norm at the moment, and I've been watching 'Moving On' on iPlayer whilst rendering Flash files down and it's brilliant.

It got me thinking that Jimmy McGovern would make a great guest writer for a short Dredd series. The human element, the grey areas in life, and the unexpected endings.

So the question is folks, who would you like to guest write a Dredd story?

Post 4,000!

There, done it.

This is brilliant!
http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=GB#/watch?xl=xl_blazer&v=cVjTBHEnj04

PJ at BICS you mentioned the Mohawk troops influencing Dave Gibbon's version of Rogue and afterwards I got talking with Colin McNeil about this, (who I found out has interests in Military History) and he mentioned that 101st Airborne Parachuted into France on D Day and shaved their heads and donned war-paint to scare the Germans.

Here have a gander:



There are some more pictoral references and I think that some of them look pretty much like the native American Indians that you mentioned you'd seen in passing.

I def. think that you're onto something with regards to Gibbon's influence, plus if you think about the era that Rogue was created it was around the time Punk culture was at it's zenith...

Gary at work has to find a game for PS2 for his little brother's birthday but he cannot remember the full title, but he knows it ends '...Hearts 2'

Any ideas?

Cheers
L

We've now got to the nitty gritty as the design is fully worked up and finished by the fantastic Mr Kevin Levell, take a bow Kev.

Before I get this permanently inked onto my arm can I have final comments from the Hive mind please... with regards to any technical issues you may have, it works, and it doesn't look like something from the Third Reich (christ that was a close one).

Cheers
M

OK. After much artisticness from the brilliant Kevin Levell, here is the final rough draft of my new tattoo.



I'd appreciate it if we could have some crit / comments, prior to Kevin working it up to final artwork.

Cheers Boys and Girls.

M

OK.

I'm off next week for my tattoo.

KevLev designed it for me and I've tweaked it slightly.

Wouldn't mind some comments before I take the plunge, it's going on my left arm at the top about 60mm in length.

Cheers
M