Caricatures Ireland

I honestly thought I’d got a letter from Firefox this morning. The stamp is massive and every time I glance at I see the Firefox logo.

It’s a thing in design that sometimes when you get that click in the brain that says finished, it’s actually saying, this is sufficiently similar to some good design I’ve seen before to satisfy me. I’d a similar thing a few years ago when I designed a stilt costume that was a silver flightsuit with mechanical wings. The very same costume was in the Bond film Octopussy. I’d obviously been carrying it around in my head since I’d seen it as a kid.
Anyway 2008 is the Year of Planet Earth according to the stamp. I went there once. The locals were very unpleasant; they threw rubbish everywhere.

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At least not if you’re getting letters from the UK Office of Government Commerce. From BoingBoing.

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There’s a nice post on Screen Rant about the upcoming Hulk movie, including the above comparison of the new design with the Ang Lee version (left). I have to say, first impressions of the new design aren’t good. There’s something very odd going on with the skin texture, it looks like plastic, and the musculature makes him look like he’s bound in old rope. All in all it looks like the quintessential rubber costume from low budget monster movies. The smaller head and simian features of the newer version (compare the jawlines and noses) look odd. As for the Abomination, well, I think that’s going to live up to its name.

Still I know I’m going to end up going to see it, and I’ll probably enjoy scenes. It can’t be as bad as Spiderman 3 (can it?). And let’s face it, the real quandary these conflicting versions is putting me in is choosing between Jennifer Connelly and Liv Tyler. Would that I ever had that choice to make…
UPDATE: I’ve reviewed it here.

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This is something I worked on with some friends last year. They’re due to start shooting it in May having secured some funding, so I popped it up on YouTube. I’m going to put up the trailer they made when I get my hands on it, and hopefully the finished short. It’ll be interesting to see the page-to-screen process.
As for the storyboard, it was rattled out over a few meetings. The actual storyboard is here, but I fancied seeing how it read with transitions etc. I scanned each frame, put them together in Windows Moviemaker and dropped some music over it (Aphex Twin and Matrix soundtrack respectively!). It only took about half an hour and there’s no dialogue but it really helped to see it moving, even in this limited way.
I’ll be posting more about the film as it progresses.

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