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Dec 2, 2009, 7:30 pm
Soupremacy is a music video collaboration between myself and composer David Novan. You can see the HD version on YouTube. This animation was produced in Cinema 4D and edited in Blender. Comment - Like
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Dec 1, 2009, 7:00 pm
This film, in which Vin Diesel's future mercenary smuggles a mysterious young woman and her religious minder from a chaotic, kill-or-be-killed Eastern Europe to the richer, advertise-or-be-adverti... Comment - Like
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Nov 29, 2009, 2:37 pm
A few weeks ago I had a bag stolen. It happened quickly but was a huge loss although I was lucky enough to be amongst supportive friendly company at the time. I quickly found what some others in this ... Comment - Like
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Nov 26, 2009, 7:30 pm
The sun is spewing out more and more neutrinos – and they’re not the usual ones that pass through the Earth without so much as a blip on a billion dollar detection facility. No, these are special ... Comment - Like
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Nov 24, 2009, 3:57 am
This is an early update - it will be centuries before my descendents finally reach the end of this novel. Set centuries after the events of the Commonwealth novels, The Temporal Void is the sequel to ... Comment - Like
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Nov 21, 2009, 6:07 am
We used this scene in Last Zombie Standing but during the 48 hour period I only managed a low resolution fluid sim. Here's what it should have looked like:
As I'm trying to get faster at thes... Comment - Like
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Nov 17, 2009, 7:00 pm
If you are a Freudian psychoanalyst STOP READING THIS NOW. You have been warned.
I’ve just started a new Peter F. Hamilton brick, The Temporal Void. I’ve also just finished a Dean Koontz novel, F... Comment - Like
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Nov 16, 2009, 5:00 pm
Time has run out - like an aircraft carrier falling from the crest of a tidal wave, 2012 has been released upon us. Time for a quick history lesson from the movies:
In 1,000,000 B.C. cavewomen were f... Comment - Like
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Nov 15, 2009, 4:40 pm
Doctor Who special The Waters of Mars was, as promised, a darker episode than usual, with very little humour apart from Tennant's occasional clowning. There have been some great episodes that real... Comment - Like
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Nov 14, 2009, 5:00 pm
Thirst (Bakjwi) is a Korean vampire movie directed by Chan-Wook Park and starring Kang-ho Song and Ok-vin Kim. I must be straight with you: due to circumstances beyond my control (and unrelated to the... Comment - Like
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Nov 13, 2009, 1:20 pm
"I am completely operational, and all my circuits are functioning perfectly" - H.A.L. 9000
The shape of things to come: any, all, some or none of the following stories will be featured in subsequent ... Comment - Like
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Nov 7, 2009, 7:25 am
Here's the winning zombie film, Killing The Dead produced by team Bad Gas.
The Zombie Film Challenge website has links to this film and the winners of previous 24 and 48 hour challenges, as well ... Comment - Like
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Nov 3, 2009, 3:41 pm
I attended the Zombie Film Challenge screening on Halloween along with three other members of Special Circumstances. Apart from the (compulsory) zombies themselves a number of trends were seen in many... Comment - Like
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Oct 30, 2009, 8:00 pm
This novel takes anti-terror freedom of speech legislation to it's extreme, and may have been written as a response to the increasingly restrictive laws here in the U.K. The protagonist has writte... Comment - Like
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Oct 27, 2009, 5:00 pm
Zombies are the new robots. It's official - while we and other teams have been making zombie movies all over London, across the world people have either been participating in major zombie gatherin... Comment - Like
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Oct 26, 2009, 1:00 pm
Final update: we completed the score a bit after ten o'clock last night, and I got the edit down to three minutes at around the same time. I spent most of last night having another crack at the CG... Comment - Like
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Oct 25, 2009, 7:11 pm
The composer has left the building: now it's down to me. I have a rough edit that brings the film down to 3 minutes and I can assure you that was painful. Now working in the soundtrack and sound e... Comment - Like
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Oct 25, 2009, 7:02 am
No stills yet - yesterday was a success but trying to do the CGI last night was a different story. However I've got a rough edit (only about twice as long as it should be) and am ready to do some ... Comment - Like
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Oct 24, 2009, 4:20 pm
T-Zero: four of us turned up to London's Deathtrap this morning at 10 and our youngest team member chose our title and genre from the lucky dip. We phoned this through to our scriptwriter who appr... Comment - Like
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Oct 21, 2009, 2:48 am
The Movieum's Zombie Film Challenge takes place this weekend: if you're in an open space anywhere in London, watch out for large numbers of the undead. Our team is preparing for a film shoot t... Comment - Like
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Oct 18, 2009, 1:32 am
The Sci-Fi Gene blog will be 1 year old on the 23rd October. It's been a good year. I'm also currently gathering a crew for an entry in the Movieum's zombie-themed 48 Hour Film Challenge n... Comment - Like
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Oct 17, 2009, 7:00 pm
Before he developed his obsession with trashing the White House in as many ways as possible, director Roland Emmerich had a career making films. For instance, you may remember a little number called S... Comment - Like
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Oct 16, 2009, 2:00 am
Or, Blender is driving me mad.
Firstly, I was trying to work out why, half way through a scene, my mist stopped seeping, rolling and doing what mist generally does and instead just hung in mid air. W... Comment - Like
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Oct 13, 2009, 7:00 pm
Clive Sinclair and Chris Curry aren't the only unlikely pairing in the history of computing - in fact I wonder if Stonehenge wasn't designed and built by two druids with opposing personalities... Comment - Like
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Oct 12, 2009, 7:30 pm
Blender has a built in fluid simulation engine. Conveniently there are options to simulate oil and honey as well as water; alternatively you can change the properties of the fluid directly, change the... Comment - Like
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Oct 10, 2009, 7:00 pm
Many of my childhood memories were written in Basic IV so for me the BBC's drama Micro Men, broadcast on Thursday, brought on some tears of nostalgia with a heavily dramatised version of the story... Comment - Like
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Oct 8, 2009, 10:00 pm
Zombieland is the USA decimated by a zombie virus. It's a road movie featuring Jesse Eisenberg (also seen in The Village), Woody Harrelson (Cheers!), Emma Stone (No. Me neither. But you will) and ... Comment - Like
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Oct 7, 2009, 7:00 pm
Those who, like me, were slightly disappointed by Tim Burton's re-imagining of Planet Of The Apes may find solace in Alexander McCall Smith's latest endeavour.
It wasn't enough for the au... Comment - Like
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Oct 4, 2009, 7:30 pm
District 9 update: there's a link to Neill Blomkamp's short film "Alive in Joburg" here - (thanks Molly Brown).
Bender's Game is a feature-length Futurama episode. The plot revolves arou... Comment - Like
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Oct 1, 2009, 7:00 pm
CGI and cinematic depiction of freak weather events go together like apples and oranges. Films such as Twister, The Day After Tomorrow, Deep Impact and The Perfect Storm have used computer generated t... Comment - Like
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Sep 29, 2009, 5:30 am
Or, why VCR never killed off the cinema.
Is it even possible to compare a paper-based fanzine to an e-zine or blog? As Scott Sandford's study demonstrates, it is entirely possible to compare appl... Comment - Like
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Sep 26, 2009, 7:30 pm
I'm wondering what the merchandising teams are making of this film. Computer game programmers are probably rubbing their hands with glee - the action sequences in the second half are just a few st... Comment - Like
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Sep 23, 2009, 7:04 pm
I was recently an extra in a short film set on the Underground and spent several hours travelling up and down the Piccadilly Line with cast and crew, trying to shoot a few seconds of HD footage on a R... Comment - Like
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Sep 21, 2009, 3:35 am
2009 is proving to be an extraordinary year for science fiction cinema - and there may be more surprises to come.
District 9, directed by Neill Blomkamp and produced by Peter Jackson, is refreshing f... Comment - Like
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Sep 17, 2009, 7:00 pm
I know it's been said before, but could this be the beginning of the end for the director's glass ceiling? Andrea Arnold just released Fish Tank to huge acclaim from both audiences and critics... Comment - Like
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Sep 15, 2009, 9:30 am
This is the website description of Renzo "Eshaktaar" Thönen's game: "Mental Repairs, Inc. is a 2.5D point'n'click adventure that puts you into the shoes of Henrik Liaw, machine psychiatri... Comment - Like
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Sep 11, 2009, 8:00 pm
I first came across Eric Flint as author of From the Highlands, a novella in David Weber's Honor Harrington series, from the anthology Changer of Worlds. Flint shares Weber's obsession with mi... Comment - Like
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Sep 5, 2009, 7:30 pm
The Great Maze at Blake End is an annual event - a labyrinth grown in a 10-acre maizefield, one of the many maize mazes that springs up around the UK at this time of year. Exploring it brought back a ... Comment - Like
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Sep 3, 2009, 1:15 am
As the crew of Discovery work to complete the International Space Station, and we approach the end of the Space Shuttle programme, I was reminded of some of the Shuttle's most memorable on-screen ... Comment - Like
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Aug 30, 2009, 2:24 am
Esther, played by Isabelle Fuhrman in Orphan, is the new scary movie kid on the block. She's adopted by a couple who have two children of their own but are also grieving after a stillbirth, after ... Comment - Like
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Aug 27, 2009, 7:02 am
Stephenie Meyer's novel is told from the point of view of Wanderer, a member of a parasitic alien race not unlike the Trill symbionts in Deep Space Nine or the Goa'Uld in Stargate. Wanderer... Comment - Like
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Aug 24, 2009, 6:50 pm
This China Mieville novel is written for the teenage or YA reader however can be enjoyed at any age. The scenario, in which two friends are transported magically into an alternative version of London ... Comment - Like
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Aug 21, 2009, 7:00 pm
Spent another puzzling night working with Blender. Having camera-tracked and camera-mapped my background footage, I separated the architeuthis sylvaticus scene into layers to be modified and recombine... Comment - Like
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Aug 17, 2009, 10:00 pm
Some thoughts on reading H.P. Lovecraft's short stories: initially I was reminded of H.G. Wells, who both preceded and outlived Lovecraft. Both writers took the traditions of fantastic fiction and... Comment - Like
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Aug 15, 2009, 2:00 am
The first of China Mieville's novels, King Rat, is set in more or less present-day London, although the grime and muck is described just as colourfully as in later novels such as Perdido Street St... Comment - Like
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Aug 11, 2009, 11:35 am
I was thinking about the various plot devices that allow time travel. In addition to opening the way for a time travel plot, the nature of the device can itself be a symbol, or it can add to a novel o... Comment - Like
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