Animated Metal Music Videos

Having just watched this vid from Trash Talk, I (randomly) remember all the rad animated music vids from my youth I used to pray would play on MTV2. I thought I'd post up some of the better animated metal videos, not all the bands featured in this post aged too well but their videos still stand the test of time.

Trash Talk - Slander

Tool - Sober

Tool - Prison Sex

Korn - Freak on a Leash

Queens Of The Stone Age - Go With The Flow

Sepultura - Ratamahatta

Deviants

Recently came across this amazing work on deviantArt by Noah - Kuang Hong, an artist from China.

Click the images to see them in full detail!

http://zemotion.net/noah/

Sucker Punch The Movie

Alex Pardee has been busy doing the promo for a cool-looking fantasy movie coming out next month called Sucker Punch...Combine hot girls, swords, guns, robots, armies fighting, dragons & samurais and you've pretty much ticked all my film boxes! The toy mecha looks amazing too!

Get more info HERE.

White Box By Makoto Yabuki

White Box from makoto yabuki on Vimeo.

“Dreaminism” SciFi and Fantasy Images by Vitaly S Alexius

Frank Frazetta - R.I.P

more of his amazing work here.

Dave Rapoza Fantasy Art

This guy has skills! Fantasy illustrations/sets with beautiful lighting techniques....See a ton more work on his Deviant page.

HMV To Host Final Fantasy XIII Launch

To all you FF fans!!
On March 9 at 5.30pm, the game's producer Yoshinori Kitase and art director Isamu Kamikokuryo will be at the Oxford St store to sign games and answer questions.
The first 50 people who attend the signing in Final Fantasty costumes will be awarded a Final Fantasy XIII soundtrack, while other prizes will also be available.

Macho Films

Harvey Spannos is a surreal comedy about a young boy uncovering the mystery of his father's death and the search for his own identity. Through his journey, Harvey daydreams of being a pro skateboarder as he idolizes the enormously popular and successful champion. Written by Ben Wagner, this year you should also watch Macho Tail Drop by the same director:



Both featuring Rick McCrank, this one seemed to slip under the radar but makes for a good first movie post for the new year I'm sure you will agree. If you like the look of these, also check out some of the films by Harmony Korine (script writer for Kids), Werner Herzog (Even Dwarfs Started Small), and Wes Anderson (The Life Aquatic, The Fantastic Mr. Fox)

Avatar Movie Trailer

Plot:
"A paraplegic ex-marine war veteran (Sam Worthington) is unwillingly sent to establish a human settlement on the distant planet of Pandora, only to find himself battling humankind alongside the planet’s indigenous Na’vi race in this ambitious, digital 3-D sci-fi epic from Academy Award-winning Titanic director James Cameron."

Quite possibly I may spontaneously combust in anticipation for this film. Apparently it's going to come out in the Imax cinema. Fuck Toy Story, go see this.

Kamen Rider Rules

Why didn't we have Kamen Rider in the West in the 80's? This character kicks serious ass and is a hit with the ladies despite his grasshopper-like face! This 2 min. video sees him take on a mecha-T Rex and save two hotties from certain doom!
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Keith Thompson Dark Arts

Instead of doing my office work, I have been sitting here, quietly gawping at the detail and horror of freelance artist, Keith Thompson's drawings. This guy is sick; literally! I have collected some of his robot drawings for you and will have to do another post for his Undead gallery and more! Amazing.....

Brass Lion

Hausen

Martial Queller

Nakatomi Clark

Orbital Delegate

Panzer Fluch

Sequester

Dajjal

Coming soon from Hollywood

Avatar:

Earlier this month, James Cameron previewed the 3D video game based on his upcoming December 18 release, Avatar, and three screenshots were released. The sci-fi action-adventure stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez, Giovanni Ribisi, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Peter Mensah, Laz Alonso, Wes Studi, Stephen Lang and Matt Gerald.

Even though places like THR and IESB are saying that the audience at the Expo was asked to sign non-disclosure agreements, reports are nonetheless coming in from various different sources about the Avatar footage that was shown. And below we have provided a selection of quotes from them.

Coming Soon (scooper: ‘The Insider’)

'I’ve just returned from a preview screening of “Avatar”… and I’m still feeling the after effects of this jaw-dropping experience… Finally a director who doesn’t feel the need to stick it [3D] in the audience’s face with cheap tricks like pointing objects at the camera…

I thought–just like you guys–that I’ve seen it all with Gollum, or The Hulk, but Cameron has done it again. These creatures seem so real, that within minutes you forget you’re watching an enormous and very blue CGI character. Even the eyes are totally convincing. The characters have real personalities and a soul… The effects are in a league of their own. After some disappointing or even pointless 3-D movies, “Avatar” maybe the first movie where 3-D is properly utilized.'

MarketSaw

'You will NOT believe the detail… The world outside is amazing. It all lives, breathes and works… You will not believe the amount of leaves that look like someone created that jungle for real.

What is most important about this movie [is that] everything lives and breathes… There’s a shot of leaves somewhere which is so photorealistic you don’t want to think it’s CGI. You believe this world from the get-go. It’s there, you don’t need to believe it because you will experience it.'

Unique Cinema System (via Twitter)

'…Stunning, literally jawdropping. Amazing visuals unlike any before seen, with incredible detail… CGI was photorealistic, characters look really real. Believe the hype, this movie will be massive!'

Alice In Wonderland:

Walt Disney Pictures has released the first promotional photos from Tim Burton’s 3D re-imagining of Alice in Wonderland. Above you can see the first official photos of Johnny Depp as a freakish-looking Mad Hatter, Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen (”Off With Their Heads”), and Anne Hathaway as The White Queen, looking very pale. After the jump we’ve included newly confirmed details about the film’s plot (did you know its a kind of a sequel?) and new concept art that shows the White Rabbit (Michael Sheen) and more.


The film begins at a party where Alice, now 17, finds out that she is about to be proposed to in front of hundreds of snooty high society types. She makes a run for it, and of course, ends up following a white rabbit down a hole, back to Wonderland — a place where she visited a decade prior. The White Rabbit is convinced that he has the right girl but Alice doesn’t remember her past visit to Wonderland. The creatures of Wonderland are ready to revolt and are hoping/waiting for Alice to help them, but will she? Can she?

Other details revealed in the article include: The Red Queen has “a moat filled with bobbing noggins”, The White Queen is beautiful but eccentric, and floats around instead of walking, and that Depp employs an accent for the Hatter that producer Richard Zanuck can only describe as “indescribable”.

Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland will hit theaters on March 5th 2010.

Other trailers that look good:


Accidents Happen


The Laundry Worrior


Old Dogs


Zombieland


2012

O F F L I N E from Matthew Santoro on Vimeo.

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Tekkonkincreet

If you haven't seen the anime adaptation to Taiyo Matsumoto’s graphic novel Tekkonkincreet, I suggest you find it as soon as possible and do just that. Brought to the screen by Studio 4C, this version of the popular graphic novel is on of the most beautiful pieces of animation I have seen since....well just since (I'm not a super anime geek, so I'm no authority on this subject).


There is an interview with the CEO of 4C as well as some of the team that worked on the film on the PingMag site available here. Although there is no mention of another anime called Mind Game by the same team, that is also well worth a watch for it's rather leftfield style and story.


So, if like me, you are struggling to come to terms with the recession and have no money to go out and piss your measly earnings up a wall, go and search these gems out. You'll probably find them free on the web, but I strongly suggest buying them as they may well change your life forever (let's just hope they don't try and make a live action version and kill them like they seem to be doing with so many other classics).