Originally released more than 40 years ago, Astroyboy is a Japanese manga series that was first broadcasted in Japan from 1963 to 1966. It then got fully remade in the 1980s, which is the version I recall watching when I was a kid. Now, it seems that someone thought that the series needed a new […]
Entirely shot on a RED camera for a USC graduate thesis, Turbo is a high-adrenaline 20-minute short featuring Hugo Park (Justin Chon, Twilight), a misspent youth whose only outlet for angst is a 4D fighting video game called “Super Turbo Arena”. Check out the official trailer below. [Via Gizmodo]
As all you regulars should know by now, we’re really suckers for well made 3D animated movies here at GAS. So when French filmmaker and longtime GAS reader Sebastien Laban wrote to us today to tell us about his upcomming 3D flick, Meet Meline, we just had to share it with you guys. After two […]
Why has no one thought of this before? WANT! This high-quality sleeping bag looks just like a Tauntaun, complete with saddle, internal intestines and glowing lightsaber zipper pull. Now when your kids tell you their favorite Star Wars movie is “Attack of the Clones” you can nestle the wee-ones snug in simulated Tauntaun fur while […]
Produced by Reza Dolatabadi as a graduate film project, Khoda took over two years to complete and was made using 6,000 different paintings shown at 20 frames per second. What if you watch a film and whenever you pause it, you face a painting? This idea inspired Reza Dolatabadi to make Khoda. Over 6000 paintings […]
Time travel can be confusing. Every time someone steps into a time machine, it changes everything. However, that can be convenient for writers piecing together new movies -it explains every continuity goof and every great new idea that would be hard to explain otherwise. io9 lays out ten different timelines that work in one part […]
What would be the next step after playing music with a tesla coil? Stepping into the music yourself, wearing a Faraday suit, of course! Patrick from ArcAttack does just that, with an appropriate theme song. A comment at Metafilter says it all: “Now, see, if Vader had offered THIS to Luke as one of the […]
Sound designer Diego Stocco realized this song by using various sound samples created with sand alone. I had some sandbags in the backyard that I used in November during a rainy day. I was moving them to a different spot when I heard the noise of the sand. I thought that maybe I could try […]
What can I say? The force is strong with this one! [Via Newlaunches]
Enjoy this brief glimpse into the world of competitive air guitar. Filmed by us last Wednesday at the Alamo Drafthouse Ritz Theatre in Austin, Texas, these guys are just the preliminary qualifiers for the international air guitar championship. Relive the only good part of the 1980s that’s still good today as the long hair flies. […]