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The Evolution Of Batman’s Gotham City


This is a fun and fascinating video that takes a look at the evolution of Batman’s home, Gotham City. Evan Puschak (The Nerdwriter) explores the city in this seven-minute video essay. This is well worth your time. I don’t think I have ever seen an examination of Gotham like this one. It offers a lot of food for thought if you are a Batman fan.

Gotham is as much a character as Batman himself and just as fascinating, with a history just as rich as the Caped Crusader’s. After all, they are forever intertwined. Did Gotham create Batman? Did Batman create the hellish out of control version of Gotham? Maybe the real question is if they can save each other.

Scifi Staff by — November 17, 2015 in Movies/TV 0
Doctor Who Recreates The Beatles’ Abbey Road Album Cover

Doctor Who Recreates The Beatles' Abby Road Album Cover
By now you’ve all seen the series 9 premiere of Doctor Who. It seems like people are pretty split on whether they liked it or not, but one thing is for sure, Peter Capaldi remains the best part of the show. IMO anyway. And check this out. The Doctor and Clara have recreated the classic Abbey Road album cover. With some help from the Daleks of course.

Interesting that Clara is taking Paul’s place and barefoot. Maybe she will get killed off in this series after all. I don’t think her current death from the last episode will last very long though.

Scifi Staff by — September 22, 2015 in Movies/TV 0
Boba Fett Fan Film Movie Trailer


Sometime in the next few years we are going to see Boba Fett back on the big screen. Word is that Lucasfilm has been working on a spinoff movie starring the famous bounty hunter. It may not be confirmed yet, but we know that it’s coming. It might look something like this trailer made by Director Eric Demeusy.

This fan-trailer is called Star Wars: The New Republic Anthology. Boba Fett escapes the Sarlacc Pit and makes his way to his ship, Slave I. The costume looks great, the music is right on target. It makes me itch for Fett’s new movie. It is a great time to be a Star Wars fan.

via io9

Scifi Staff by — September 21, 2015 in Movies/TV 0
Fantastic Four Concept Designs Reveal HERBIE The Robot

Fantastic Four Concept Designs Reveals HERBIE The Robot
If you were disappointed with Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four movie, you were far from alone. One thing that we didn’t see in the movie was HERBIE the robot. Apparently the robot was to be in the movie at one point. Not that this would have helped any.

HERBIE stands for Humanoid Experimental Robot, B-type, Integrated Electronics. Thanks to concept artist Fausto De Martini we have some concept designs showing us what we missed out on. He is literally a robot sitting on a soccer ball. He also has LEGO parts. I’m guessing it was to be built by Reed Richards as a kid in the film. Or maybe as an adult. I mean most of us never grow out of LEGO. It’s kind of cool, but it also feels like something is off about it.

Fantastic Four Concept Designs Reveals HERBIE The Robot

Scifi Staff by — September 10, 2015 in Art 0
Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome – CG Ship Interiors Before And After


Visual effects artist Doug Drexler recently uploaded this cool demo reel from BSG: Blood and Chrome, showing off the before and after of the CG ship interiors. What strikes me most is just how little the actors had to work with on set. Most of the shots shown here are almost entirely green screen with very few real world objects. It all came together impressively in the end.

Scifi Staff by — September 7, 2015 in Behind The Scenes 0
Ripper: A Batman Fan Film


James Campbell needs your help to complete his very awesome film named Ripper. The film is nearly complete, but they need money for the final 20% of the film. Judging by the trailer here, it is a worthy investment. It looks really amazing with some nice production value.

Batman against Jack The Ripper is a great story. It’s based on the 1991 Elseworlds graphic novel, Gotham By Gaslight, which is a classic. Go here to help James finish this cool project.

via Geek Tyrant

Scifi Staff by — August 21, 2015 in Movies/TV 0
Deleted Scenes From Mad Max: Fury Road

https://youtu.be/dB0D-Egq46M
The Mad Max movies have always been among my all-time favorites so I can’t wait for the Blu-ray/DVD release that is arriving on September 1st here in the US. While we are all waiting here are three deleted scenes from Mad Max: Fury Road that are included on the Blu-ray/DVD release.

Scifi Staff by — August 18, 2015 in Movies/TV 0
Chappie VFX Breakdown Reel


Fans of Chappie will enjoy this. Image Engine is the special effects company that worked on Neill Blomkamp’s Chappie. This is their VFX breakdown reel that shows how they transformed Sharlto Copley into Chappie himself. It isn’t as easy or straightforward as you might think.

Copley had to be taken out of each frame of the film that he was in. It’s a pain but, his being there allowed the rest of the cast to react to his movements, so it was totally worth it. I think it worked pretty well in this movie. You’ll want to watch it all the way through to get all of the cool details.

Scifi Staff by — August 17, 2015 in Behind The Scenes 0
Terminator Genisys Behind-The-Scenes Video


Check out this neat behind-the-scenes video from Legacy Effects, the company who did many of the practical effects on Terminator Genisys. This is a fun video that shows off some of the process. It’s amazing to see all of that stuff poured over arnold so they could make a super realistic but fake Terminator Arnold. That’s just one of the things they cover.

If you like special effects, you’ll appreciate this short look behind the scenes.

Scifi Staff by — August 7, 2015 in Behind The Scenes 0