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This is one of our all-time favorite Tintin scenes — Professor Calculus nearly getting run over by Captain Haddock's Lunar tank. And this tribute to Herge's original art was created by none other than Weta's Greg Broadmore, creator of the amazing Dr. Grordbort. Consider us over the Moon. More »
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After rocking our worlds with Moon and thrilling us with Source Code, is director Duncan Jones leaving science fiction? It certainly sounds like it, but not before one last effort. More »
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Hobbiton is an idyllic scene... except for the untimely arrival of the wizard Gandalf, in this gorgeous art print called "Disturber of the Peace," by Weta Workshop concept artist Ben Wootten, who worked on the Lord of the Rings films. More »
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Ready your man-melters and infallible aether oscillators! It's time to crush the Venusian heathens once and for all. Weta Workshop released a new animated promo for Dr. Grordbort's amazing steampunk rayguns and other super-advanced tools of space Empire. More »
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When the survey team returned, their great striped beasts flying low over the shore, we knew school would be starting soon. The scholars opened their doors to the surveyors, filling summer's stuffy rooms with new air. Late into the night, we'd hear the murmur of their conversations and the rustle of samples unpacked from paper, the hum of old drives spinning up, disgorging data about all the places beyond the horizons we glimpsed from our island. More »
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How can you bring the vivid, disturbing transformations from Randy Queen's comic book Darkchylde to life on the big screen? New test footage, showing a nice Southern girl mutating into creatures from her nightmares, gives us our first glimpse. More »
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Last year, artist Kim Graham exploded into internet fame for a YouTube video where she demonstrated a pair "digilegs" she'd designed herself. Now she's landed a job at Weta working on the Hobbit movies. Here's her story. More »
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If you really want to join the Na'vi, you're going to have to understand their way of life. Luckily, artist Craig Shoji shared with us some of his Avatar concept art showing what the Na'vi eat and how they live. More »
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We may be able to see the long-awaited Mecha Angel battle some day. Halo Legends' producer announced that Evangelion is still in the pipeline for a live-action adaptation. And some Weta Workshop concept art hints at the potential awesomeness. More »
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We're all familiar with the sexy-as-hell ray gun collection from Weta. Well, now your very own ray-blunderbuss is available for pre-order. This ray gun is packing one hell of a muzzle, and if it's anything like its ancestor, this thing is going to spray death rays all over your enemies' faces. Prices for the “The Unnatural Selector" range from $4,500 to $7,900. [Weatanz] More »
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If you watch enough TV, you get the idea that the ideal mating combination is a skinny little woman and a burly man. But a new evolutionary study published in American Naturalist shows that's not what nature intended. In fact, the humble New Zealand weta (a relative of the cricket) demonstrates that evolution often pushes in the other direction: Only the smallest and most nimble weta males get to score with the sexy weta ladies who are twice their size. How could tiny males impress the weta females? More »
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Producer Barrie Osborne let the news slip that the New Zealand based WETA Workshop will be designing the costumes for the upcoming Justice League movie. Additional WETA Digital will be working on some of the digital effects, if they have time. While the costume part should lead to some awesome results (we can't wait to see what the new Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman costumes will look like), it's the "if they have time" for the digital effects part that alarms us. More »
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