The Unforgiving NFT Collection

The Unforgiving City is a collection of hand-painted artworks of the city. Each piece is scanned at a stunning 4k resolution and digitally painted, animated featuring an original music score for each unique 30-second animation. The unlockable content is a high-resolution version of the artwork.

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UPDATE: Live Action Alita: Battle Angel Trailer

SDCC this year has revealed a lot of cool stuff. The latest is a new live action trailer for Alita: Battle Angel. This is Cyberpunk heaven right here. It has everything you need for human cyborg relations. I started checking this out in December last year with their teaser. 

(New Trailer all the way at the bottom) 

Okay, This is the first live action film version of Alita: Battle Angel based on the original Comic book (Manga Series) created by Yukito Kishiro in 1990's seen below.

The Manga was later developed into an Anime series (below) released in 1993.

It is still a pretty awesome story for more than 20 years old. Now with current technology, anime and manga come to life.

Visionary filmmakers James Cameron (AVATAR) and Robert Rodriguez (SIN CITY) create a groundbreaking new heroine in ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL, an action-packed story of hope, love and empowerment. Set several centuries in the future, the abandoned Alita (Rosa Salazar) is found in the scrapyard of Iron City by Ido (Christoph Waltz), a compassionate cyber-doctor who takes the unconscious cyborg Alita to his clinic. When Alita awakens she has no memory of who she is, nor does she have any recognition of the world she finds herself in. 

Everything is new to Alita, every experience a first. As she learns to navigate her new life and the treacherous streets of Iron City, Ido tries to shield Alita from her mysterious past while her street-smart new friend, Hugo (Keean Johnson), offers instead to help trigger her memories. A growing affection develops between the two until deadly forces come after Alita and threaten her newfound relationships. It is then that Alita discovers she has extraordinary fighting abilities that could be used to save the friends and family she’s grown to love. 

Determined to uncover the truth behind her origin, Alita sets out on a journey that will lead her to take on the injustices of this dark, corrupt world, and discover that one young woman can change the world in which she lives.

DIRECTED BY

Robert Rodriguez

SCREENPLAY BY

James Cameron and Laeta Kalogridis and Robert Rodriguez

BASED ON THE GRAPHIC NOVEL (“MANGA”) SERIES:

“Gunnm” By Yukito Kishiro

PRODUCED BY

James Cameron and Jon Landau

CAST

Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz, Jennifer Connelly, Mahershala Ali, Ed Skrein, Jackie Earle Haley, Keean Johnson

Following the arrival of the first trailer above, 20th Century Fox has now released a new featurette for Alita: Battle Angel which sees Robert Rodriguez and James Cameron take us behind the scenes of the upcoming manga adaptation and includes interviews with the director and producer; watch the featurette below.

NEW TRAILER BELOW!

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Blade Runner Scene recreated with Unreal Engine 4

This looks pretty amazing. 

As I’m pretty sure you may know, I am a big fan of Blade Runner. After all, my desktop background – as seen in pretty much all PC Performance Analysis articles – is a Blade Runner recreation in CRYENGINE. However, it appears the time to replace has come as Quixel’s 3D Artist and Art Lead, Wiktor Ohman, has recreated a scene from this iconic film in Unreal Engine 4.

As Wiktor said, he used loads of Megascan’s urban materials and assets in order to create this scene and the end result is amazing and it’s really close to the original material. Actually, this makes me wish for a new Blade Runner game that will look similar to this or the Samaritan tech demo. But I guess I’ll have to wait until Cyberpunk 2077 comes out.

Check out the video below.

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New Godzilla Anime Trailer Out! Updated 2018!

The upcoming Godzilla: Monster Planet anime movie coming to Netflix features the largest King of the Monsters ever. At almost 1000 feet tall, it crushes the others!

Artist Noger Chen posted the picture below, comparing the height of Godzilla in all of the previous Godzilla films.

The original 1954 Godzilla has a height of just 50 meters (164 feet), while the 2014 Godzilla came in at 108 meters (354 feet), and the most recent to appear in Shin Godzilla comes in at 118.5 meters (389 feet).

Godzilla Planet of the Monsters.

The Godzilla anime trilogy is now on its second film, and thanks to the series' official website, we just learned that there's a new name for the "super gigantic" version of Godzilla that we met in the first film, Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters. The official name is "Godzilla Earth," and we'll see Godzilla's take on Mechagodzilla in the second installment, Godzilla: The City Mechanized for the Final Battle ("Godzilla: Kessen Kidō Zōshoku Toshi").

Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters opened in Japan last month and the film is slated to start streaming on Netflix January 17, 2018. I can't wait, this looks really cool. I am a huge anime fan anyway, but with Godzilla... Get out! If you can't wait for the release, check out this anime Blame on Netflix. It's dark and trippy, but awesome.


Here's the official story summary: 

The planet is beset by the emergence of colossal creatures that roam the earth, and king among them is “Godzilla”. For a half a century, these beasts engage in ferocious battle with each other and mankind. But humans, unable to compete, prepare for exile from their home planet. In the year 2048, a select few humans are chosen by the central government's artificial intelligence infrastructure to set out on an interstellar emigration vessel, the Aratrum, on an 11.9-lightyear journey for the planet Tau-e in the Cetus constellation. But when they arrive after 20 years of space travel, the remnants of mankind find the environmental conditions on Tau-e to be much different than expected, and basically uninhabitable by humans.

One youth on board the emigration vessel, Haruo, had seen his parents killed by Godzilla before his eyes when he was only 4 years old. Ever since, he has thought of nothing but returning to Earth to defeat Godzilla. With the doors to emigration now closed, Haruo and other crew spearhead a “return to Earth” decision despite severely attenuated and hazardous conditions on board for such a long trip back.

Somehow, the Aratrum makes the return journey in one piece, but the home they return to has become an alien planet. 20,000 years have elapsed, and a new ecosystem has emerged with Godzilla atop the food chain. Can mankind take back its native planet? Will Haruo get his revenge?

Godzilla: The City Mechanized for the Final Battle will open in Japan in May, 2018. 

Update! Netflix will start streaming on January 17, 2018. Woo Hoo!

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Animated Comic Book Covers - Updated!

I created an animated comic book cover for my first issue some time ago, and just ran across it again. I thought it was time for a little re-post while I stay focused on drawing my next issues of Prisoner of the Mind.

Prisoner of the Mind Issue Number 1 Allan Linder. A few years ago, mine made it on to Buzzfeed.

I have to admit that I love animated comic book covers. So, I decided to give it a shot. Here is my first issue of Prisoner of the Mind animated cover. Below that, you'll find a myriad of inspiration from other artists. You'll probably have to wait a few minutes for these Gifs to load, but it's worth it.

Batman Number 15, Animated cover by talented artist Kerry Callen.

Amazing Adventures Number 4, Animated cover by talented artist Kerry Callen.

Amazing Spider man Number 33, Animated cover by talented artist Kerry Callen.

Batman The Dark Knight Returns Number 15, Animated cover by talented artist Kerry Callen.

Daredevil Number 7, Animated cover by talented artist Kerry Callen.

Fantastic Four Number 51, Animated cover by talented artist Kerry Callen.

Ironman Number 128, Animated cover by talented artist Kerry Callen.

Justice League of America Number 6, Animated cover by talented artist Kerry Callen.

Jack Kirby Machine, Animated cover by talented artist Kerry Callen.

Lois Lane Number 29, Animated cover by talented artist Kerry Callen.

Nick Fury Agent of Shield Number 4, Animated cover by talented artist Kerry Callen.

The Incredible Hulk Number 315 by Jim Groom.

I just love Geof Darrows work, it is insanely detailed, completely politically incorrect, and sometimes awesomely raw. I am not the only fan of Geof Darrow, this one is from Michael Branson Smith. It's an animated cover of Hard Boiled, and I just had to share it.

Animation by Kerry Callen, art by Chris Burnham and Nathan Fairbairn

Animation by Brad Backofen, art by Chris Samnee

If I missed anything cool send me an email and I will ad it.

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Live Action Alita: Battle Angel Trailer

This is the first live action film version of Alita: Battle Angel based on the original Comic book (Manga Series) created by Yukito Kishiro in 1990's seen below.

The Manga was later developed into an Anime series (below) released in 1993.

It is still a pretty awesome story for more than 20 years old. Now with current technology, anime and manga come to life.

Visionary filmmakers James Cameron (AVATAR) and Robert Rodriguez (SIN CITY) create a groundbreaking new heroine in ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL, an action-packed story of hope, love and empowerment. Set several centuries in the future, the abandoned Alita (Rosa Salazar) is found in the scrapyard of Iron City by Ido (Christoph Waltz), a compassionate cyber-doctor who takes the unconscious cyborg Alita to his clinic. When Alita awakens she has no memory of who she is, nor does she have any recognition of the world she finds herself in. 

Everything is new to Alita, every experience a first. As she learns to navigate her new life and the treacherous streets of Iron City, Ido tries to shield Alita from her mysterious past while her street-smart new friend, Hugo (Keean Johnson), offers instead to help trigger her memories. A growing affection develops between the two until deadly forces come after Alita and threaten her newfound relationships. It is then that Alita discovers she has extraordinary fighting abilities that could be used to save the friends and family she’s grown to love. 

Determined to uncover the truth behind her origin, Alita sets out on a journey that will lead her to take on the injustices of this dark, corrupt world, and discover that one young woman can change the world in which she lives.

DIRECTED BY

Robert Rodriguez

SCREENPLAY BY

James Cameron and Laeta Kalogridis and Robert Rodriguez

BASED ON THE GRAPHIC NOVEL (“MANGA”) SERIES:

“Gunnm” By Yukito Kishiro

PRODUCED BY

James Cameron and Jon Landau

CAST

Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz, Jennifer Connelly, Mahershala Ali, Ed Skrein, Jackie Earle Haley, Keean Johnson

Following the arrival of the first trailer above, 20th Century Fox has now released a new featurette for Alita: Battle Angel which sees Robert Rodriguez and James Cameron take us behind the scenes of the upcoming manga adaptation and includes interviews with the director and producer; watch the featurette below.

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Free GUMROAD Art and Painting Tutorials

This week only this amazing concept artist is making all of his tutorials and brushes available for free on Gumroad. You can access all of these here.

Stéphane Wootha Richard

Independent Creator // Art Educator // Concept Artist and Art Director @ Netflix Originals, YouTube Red Originals, Legendary Digital Network, Axis Animation, Powerhouse Animation.

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Experimental Lightning Animation

Here is a little animation that I did for the book teaser. During the process of animating many pages of my graphic novel, I tried many different approaches to making things move. Essentially, there were a series of little short animated segments that were edited together to create a story. This short little piece was part of the process of figuring out how to make lightning look like lightning.

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Helicopter flyby animation test

Here's another quick little experimental animation of a helicopter flyby test.

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Prisoner of the Mind Gif Cole's Nightmare

I am working on a series of animated gifs from the graphic novel. I'll post them here as I finish up. Only two months to go before issue 3 is out.

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Subway Sketches

A new character for a new story.

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Prisoner of the Mind Graphic Novel Trailer 2

Here is the latest animated graphic novel book trailer. Just a little teaser to start your holiday.

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Box of angry Coles

Let the painting begin! I Just finished casting 10 pre-orders for the limited edition resin kit titled "The End is Near." I'm still working on the packaging, but should have the final kit ready for shipping next week. If you're interested in purchasing one email me at art@allanlinder.com. I am only making 20 copies and then the molds will be destroyed. The retail price is $99 + shipping. If you missed what this is all about, start here.

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Prisoner of the Mind Graphic Novel Trailer

This is the first in a series of graphic novel trailers created to promote Prisoner of the Mind.

Fortunately, I had the help of a good editor, Thanks Ed, and a talented musician, thanks Chad to bring this thing together. If it makes you want to know more, you can always pick up a copy of the book here.

You can also read the first chapter free here.

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Cole Action Animation

Just a little animated GIF experiment to brighten your day. 

Cole Blackburne in action. It's kind of a mix between break dancing poses and martial arts.

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Quantum Enigma

Here's a sneak peek of my new comic book project Quantum Enigma.

Who are you? Where do you come from? Why are you here? Questions not easily answered when you are 9 light years away from earth without a way to get home... More to come soon.

This new project is progressing nicely, I already have my prototype books for proofing. Above, is the artwork I created for the cover from pencil, ink, and finally color.  Look for Quantum Enigma this Summer.

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Prisoner of the Mind Graphic Novel Trailer Test 1

This is a first look at the Prisoner of the Mind Graphic Novel Trailer. This is only a test! Their will be more of these to come and we're working on an animatic too.

If you like the trailer, read the first issue of Prisoner of the Mind free online.

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