In all seriousness, this is a side-project I’ve been working on for a while now, and it’s finally ready. You can register yourself as one of three supernatural creatures. You get a printable electronic registration certificate for free, or for $5 (including postage) you get the electronic certificate and a much nicer and more detailed print version in the mail. I’d be obliged if you’d check it out, and even if you don’t want the print version, take a second to register yourself as a monster. Thanks, and we now return you to a more consistent update schedule (it’s flippin’ Halloween!)
Posted by Andrew ">Andrew at 2:54 pm on October 7, 2010
This trailer for an interesting-sounding werewolf movie called “So Falls the Shadow” has been on Vimeo almost a month ago, and for the life of me I can’t figure out if this is a trailer for a completed film, or if it was assembled to show to studios and investors. Its Facebook page says the movie is “an independent feature film whose script is currently being read by several mini-majors”, so the latter seems to be the case. Based on the trailer and this outline, I’d watch the whole thing!
In the small town of Jackson City, Tennessee, things are not as they appear. The buried secrets of this quiet Southern town surface when dead bodies start appearing near its outskirts. The corpses are torn to pieces and nearly unrecognizable. No man could do such a thing. Death like this can only be attributed to the work of a savage beast. Desperate to understand how God could allow this, Jeremiah, the town pastor, makes a bold conclusion: The beast is not an evil, but rather an instrument of God’s judgment. And anyone who puts his or her trust in God will be saved from the werewolf’s wrath! The pastor’s “panic attacks” continue and leave him waking up in strange places with no memory of how he got there. Then, Jeremiah realizes a horrible truth: He is the instrument of God’s wrath. He is the werewolf.
Syfy is getting their werewolf thing on this Halloween, which I have noted and carefully marked under the “good news” column on my report. First up is “Monsterwolf”, a Syfy original movie that airs this Saturday the 9th at 9PM E / 8PM C. It stars Robert Picardo, Jason London, Leonor Varela, Griff Furst and Steve Reevis (I know someone who will be excited to see Picardo’s involved in a “wolf” project!). Syfy’s other werewolf movie, “Red”, airs October 30th.
So what do we know about Monsterwolf, other than the presence of a presumably monstrous wolf? The story’s got a rather nifty ecological angle that isn’t exactly groundbreaking, but I think adds a nice “root for the bad guy” aspect.
A creature of ancient legend manifests, bound to protect the ecological balance of the land and killing anyone that threatens it. This elusive guardian is initially both feared and celebrated by the locals, but when a deadly curse affects them all, they must unite and recapture the monster wolf’s spirit or face their ultimate doom.
I wonder what the symptoms of this curse are? Having watched this clip from Syfy (yes there’s a big wolf-beast in it) one might assume two of the symptoms are increased pain tolerance and strength– that lady breaks the upstairs window like it was a big sheet of puddle ice.
If you crave more info about Monsterwolf, direct your attention to the official Facebook page.
Posted by Andrew ">Andrew at 4:42 pm on October 1, 2010
So I was Twitter-stalking Autodesk Mudbox god Wayne Robson, who in the parlance of Roast Beef Kazenzakis is “a main dude of Mudbox”. I’d noticed him tweeting about the last in a series of tutorials he’s been doing for 3DCreative Magazine. The latest issue contains his final tutorial for 3DCreative: a female werewolf. Wayne was kind enough to share with me (and all of you) a 2oMB 2438 x 3000 pixel render of the completed werewolf. You can click the version above for a smaller JPEG version, but avail yourself of this link [12MB .zip] if you want the XXL version. If you’d like to see how he created it, you can download 3DCreative issue 062 for a sensible £2.75. You can also check out more of Wayne’s excellent work at his web site dashdotslash.net.
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