Fans have been making wish fulfillment trailers for their favourite comics or sequels for some time now, but this is one of the better ones I’ve come across in a long while, so I thought I’d post it. I can’t help but wonder though… if a studio WERE entertaining the idea of using Nathan Fillion in a Green Lantern movie (as is recently rumoured), wouldn’t such fan made content discourage them from doing it? Just a thought.
Read MoreWhat do you get when you select all the webcomics artists who follow a certain foulmouthed comics writer by the name of Warren Ellis (of Transmetropolitan fame, and currently writing FreakAngels and Ignition City)? When such selection is jumpstarted by Ellis putting out the call personally on Twitter, you get a motherfucking kickass webcomics roundup thread, that’s what. It’s not the first time he’s done this, but the collection appears to be snowballing. I’ve only tackled the first three-odd pages of the thread so far in my reading and in…
Read MoreA few more pictures from TCAF – what a great festival. On the second day we did more video and we will be posting over the next few weeks some very interesting interviews with some of the guests, and a great panel discussion on newspaper and web comics and their future, so stay tuned – same bat-time, same bat-channel!
Read MoreSaturday was a day of checking out all the tables and some of the signings. We filmed one of the panels, and those videos will be up soon! For now enjoy these pictures…
Read MoreIf the name alone doesn’t convince you that this is possibly the greatest game of all time, then know this – Plants vs Zombies is from those fine purveyors of digital crack – PopCap games – the creators of Peggle ! If you still need more convincing you can read a review here. You can download the FREE trial for the PC (only, so far) here. If that wasn’t enough PopCap has created an AWESOME theme song for the game…
Read MoreThe fourth Toronto Comic Arts Festival returns this year, to a new location, the Toronto Reference Library, on 789 Yonge St, Toronto. TCAF is the response to the standard overblown comic convention – it is a 2 day event that encompasses a little more that just getting your issue #1 signed by the artist. To quote the organizers – The Toronto Comic Arts Festival is a unique comics event, patterned after comics festivals like Angouleme, Harlem, and the Small Press Expo. It is two full days of comics-related events, including…
Read MoreWolverine has come and gone, Star Trek is a mere 2 days away, and it looks like John Connor and Optimus Prime are poised to duke it out over who will own the summer blockbuster season of 2009. Of course, I’m excited about all of the above (Wolverine notwithstanding), but it’s important to note that this year’s summer movie season looks to bear some interesting fruit. A quick stumble through Quicktime’s Trailers site lead me to conclude that these are the top 7 movies I feel like I really shouldn’t…
Read MoreThis iPhone screenshot is from an episode of a TV show called Flashpoint, which I discovered on my hard drive, and with which I discovered that the most common video container in the world (anything ending in .AVI), is unplayable on this ‘iPhone’ handset! It took a little bit of screwing with to get right, but there is an MPlayer app on Cydia you can use to watch this forbidden format. With a few skips and jumps, and provided you don’t sic it on anything too hi-rez, it works. But…
Read MoreSometimes it feels like we here at rgbFilter are just banging the drum slowly when it comes to Apple and the App Store. As we’ve reported time and time again, the App store’s walled-garden app system sports an approval process that makes some people raise an eyebrow and ask “huh” (or in my case, shout out “WTF??”). But now their selection process has negatively affected the very entity Apple has always professed to protect: the artist. Explicit language after the break.
Read MoreThe 2009 NAB expo has wrapped up, and one of the more interesting products demoed to a small group has to be REDs Red Ray Player, a $1000 playback device that will display 4K resolution video from standard DVDs. To give you an idea of the resolution, most cinemas currently project film at 2K resolution, which is 2048 lines of horizontal resolution, or about twice as much as 1080p. What makes the Red Ray player even more impressive is not the resolution, but it’s compression technology, uses wavelets to describe…
Read MoreAnother couple of weeks, and another ashrants.com video. Once again, the animation is done with Lightwave, the lip sync with Magpie Pro and editing done with Newtek’s SpeedEDIT, which is a subset of the software that comes with the TriCaster hardware. The music is a jam performed by the Asphalt Potato Jam band. Enjoy!
Read MoreAlex caught up with Edgar Wright, director of Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz, when he was at the Bloor Cinema during the Wright Stuff event, a series of films curated for the Bloor by Edgar Wright. The Wright Stuff wraps up Sunday April 12th.
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