Month: October 2008

Opera House Signs – WTF?

You’ve all noticed the ‘OPERA HOUSE’ signs tied onto lamp posts everywhere right? no? well I first noticed them in Romford, and then on the main road to Southend, and then when I got into work they were all over London as well. What’s the deal? Are they advertising something? Are they a very elaborate signage system leading to, well, an Opera House? Or, and this is the one I think is closest to the truth, are they a race of alien invaders disguised as sign posts waiting for the signal to spring into action and murder us all, or merely enslave us in thier caverns of toil and general nasty going on? – if it the later I just want to say: I called it first.

 

And no, it’s not just me they’re after, a mate of mine noticed they are surrounding his office in a devilish pincer movement of doom as he shows here

 

If you have any information please get in contact, don’t go to the Police or the Goverment, they’re in on it for sure. Of course Google ‘knows nothing’ of this, they’re in on it too. Stay alert people.

Waiting for Gorgo all over the internets

Woah, it’s a bit odd to see your own work pop-up in your rss reader but that just happened. That film we helped out on a few months back, Waiting for Gorgo, with a bit of good ol’ graphic design and some set building has been getting some geeks all excited it seems.

 

Jas noticed it first over at io9 where they have a link to our set photos, so I did some digging. I found it menioned on a forum on badmovies.org which then sent me all wobbly at the knees at the sight of a link to an article on FANGORIA ONLINE.COM! Get in! There’s totally a photo of our work on Fangoria’s website – hell it might even be in print for all I know. This is probably due to the film’s writter, M J Simpson, being a regular Fangoria scribe, he’s also put up a page about the film on his site, including a link to our photos, which is smashing.

 

It’s all jolly exciting. Here’s a few more links to help make us feel important:

 

  • RoboJapan / Monster Island – I Think this guy picked it up pretty early
  • Quiet Earth – Who also have the trailer from the original movie
  • Kailuphile – A mildly excited forum where Quiet Earth seemed to have found it
  • Cinemagine – The official site run by our mate Ben Craig, who directed the film
  • Monsterverse – This mainly links to io9 but it pads out this list nicely

Our First LBP Level, in Hell


Is it hot in here, or is it me? from flippers on Vimeo.
After much begging, we managed to blag ourselves a beta key (thanks Gripwrench!). Here’s our first little level. Spent about a week messing around with it. The creation tools really are fine. Such a fun thing to play with. Looking forward to burning many hours making more Little Big Dark Sinister things when the final game comes out in a few weeks.