Victorian adventurers go big game hunting on an alien planet in Dr Grordbort Presents: The Deadliest Game - - A short film from Media Design School based on the sci-fi world of Dr Grordbort created by writer and artist Greg Broadmore from Weta Workshop. (The video starts a little slow, but has several delightful twists.)
It's the Death Star over Copenhagen in this advertisement by Advance for Toys R Us. It's nice to see an advertising company find some inspiration, and instead of ripping off the artist, ask him to work with them. Via.
Hope Solo, Paul Rodriguez, and Ndamukong Suh show off the Nike+ Fuelband. (How does it tell when Paul's skateboarding, as opposed to riding in a car?) Via.
I'd heard The Secret World of Arrietty was good, but I hadn't expected to enjoy it so much. As good as any other Studio Ghibli movie I've seen. My 5 and 7 year old boys liked it too.
Tim League recently spoke to Google about the origins and growth of the Alamo Drafthouse. Lots of failure before success. (The Mondo poster series gets a brief mention 33 minutes in.) Via.
Here's the first developer's diary for Alan Wake's American Nightmare. Ignore their blather about the game's features and pay attention to what's going on behind them. Via.
Story: As darkness is covering the multiverse, far away in the galaxy of the wild stallion, a spark of hope is born. Guided by the light of Mother Mustang, the Space Stallions must defeat the Demon of darkness, Destructo.
Wing is totally different in tone, featuring Dementor-like monsters:
Story: A solitary, one winged creature called Wing is harassed by a group of oppressive crows due to being weak and different from them. He decides that he wants to overcome his disability and escape from the forest. He builds a catapult and a mechanical wing to accomplish this. When he launches himself away from the forest, the wing malfunctions, and he crashes into the territory of the crows. The crows are about to harm him, but are then lured away by a two-winged humanoid, who the crows attack instead. Wing finds the creature, and discovers it is a female of his own kind, and that the crows have torn one of her wings off. As the crows come towards them, Wing gets the idea that he and the female can fly in tandem by flapping each of their single wings while holding onto each other, and they manage to escape from the forest.
By: Asger Grevil, Mette V. Madsen, Jonas Kirkegaard, Michael Bech
1. Moonbot Studios' animated film The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore is currently a free download at iTunes. (The same studio made the interactive primer The Numberlys that I mentioned earlier this month.) Thanks for the heads up, Charles.
