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Galaxy class

I’ve just finished watching season 1 of The Next Generation, and I’ve been inspired to get back into LightWave 3D to produce a quick homage (or two). View full size (1200 × 675) or in glorious HD (1920...

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Where no one has gone before…

One final Star Trek render (for this weekend at least)… View full size (1200 × 675) or in glorious HD (1920 × 1080) on Flickr.

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A Merry Christmas You Must Have

A Merry Christmas You Must Have is a brilliant stop-motion Lego virtual Christmas card if from the good folks at Jammy Custard Studios. It’s a loose sequel to their earlier B-movie parody Attack of...

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The Eagles wrote the Hitchhiker’s Guide theme tune

I think I already knew this, but massive hat-tip to Gavin Rothery (@GavRov) and friend for digging up this little tidbit. You can see the Hitchhiker’s title sequence on YouTube. I’ve had the theme...

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Blade Runner Sketchbook

Some fan has uploaded the out-of-print Blade Runner Sketchbook (1982) to Issuu. Sadly it doesn’t seem like you can download the PDF from there, so go and appreciate it before it vanishes! There are...

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Stiffs: The Apocalypse Party

Stiffs is a five issue mini-series comic currently seeking funding on IndieGoGo. It’s produced in Cardiff, so if you think it sounds cool, give them some support. Set in a dead end town in the South...

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Upcoming geek events in Cardiff

Just a quick roundup of events planed for the next couple of months in Cardiff. If you want me to add something, leave a comment. MathsJam Cardiff – Tuesday 24th January 2012 (tomorrow!) We meet on the...

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Transformers 3 VFX breakdowns

So much technology, talent and time in service of something so mediocre. Above: ILM’s work, on Transformers: Dark of the Moon Below: Digital Domain’s. (via Transformers 3 Visual Effects Artistry...

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Beyond the Black Rainbow

This looks amazing. Set in the strange and oppressive emotional landscape of the year 1983, BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW is a Reagan-era fever dream inspired by hazy childhood memories of midnight movies...

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Minecraft 1.2: Villager population explosion

A quick tour of a Minecraft village that has gottten a bit out of control, plus a look at some of the Iron Golems, new to 1.2. The seed for this diverse world is ‘Creeper Town’. This crazy village can...

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Portal 2: Perpetual Testing Initiative

Yesterday Valve updated Portal 2 to add the Perpetual Testing Initiative. As the video above suggests, the PeTI is an easy-to-use level editor and a place to share the levels you create and play, rate...

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A Minecraft themed wedding!

Matt and Asia’s Minecraft wedding: They built a house together in the digital world and have been inseparable ever since, both in the game and in real life. Matt even proposed to Asia up on stage at...

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Plan 9 from Outer Space, Inception style

So, this is what I did with my weekend… Proof that Zack Hemsey’s amazing ‘Mind Heist’ theme – aka the Inception trailer music – can make any movie look epic, even the worst movie of all time. The...

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Sir, You Are Being Hunted

I just backed my first Kickstarter project, ‘Sir, You Are Being Hunted’: Survival and stealth in a procedurally-generated world! Sir, You Are Being Hunted is tweedpunk robo-horror from Big Robot Games....

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The infographics of xkcd

Most infographics on the web consist of generic graphics backed up with (lots of) poorly researched text. When done well these informational graphics use charts, diagrams and illustrations to make...

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Ideas for Minecraft

For me one of the big appeals of Minecraft is imagining what features I’d like to see added to the game. The Minecraft developers are actually surprisingly receptive to ideas from the community, often...

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Babylon 1999

Warning: I’ve cranked the geek up to 11 for this uber-nostalgic post. Buried Shadow (1999) Recently I was reunited with a computer-generated image I created back in 1999 of a crashed Shadow ship from...

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Sir, You Are Being Hunted: New gameplay footage

Sir, You Are Being Hunted was the first Kickstarter campaign I backed, and I’m excited to get my hands on the game (and other goodies) in a month or so. The makers have just released a video showing...

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LEGO timelapse: Building Curiosity

A quick timelapse of me building the Lego Cuusoo ‘Curiosity’ Rover. Or as NASA calls it, the Mars Science Laboratory. The music is, of course, Mars, the Bringer of War from Holst’s The Planets. This...

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USS Pioneer: These are the voyages of a LightWave starship model I released…

In 2007 I made my own Star Trek starship in LightWave 3D. I’d made a few others before, but this one became a labour of love. The USS Pioneer had a lot of little details, some subtle textures and a...

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