The Download Munkey : Tracking the Treasure Down …

An additional 3 wallpapers for the John Woo produced anime Appleseed :Ex Machina from the official Warner Videos’ Appleseed : Ex Machina HD DVD site in 1024×768, 1280×1024 and 1900×1200 resolutions.

© Warner Video

While the first wallpaper of the duo Deunan Knute & Briareos Hecatonchires is definitely my favourite, what’s interesting is the third wallpaper featuring a new character in the Appleseed sequel – Tereus, a Bioroid (artificial human) E.S.W.A.T member created with Briareos’ DNA resulting in him resembling the latter before he was transformed into a cyborg after sustaining severe war injuries in World War Three. On top of that, Tereus has inherited Briareos’ excellent combat skills as well as his personality (including his attraction to Deunan).

Three high resolution artworks for the fans below. Click on the images to view the full versions – detailed enough to see the brand on the hubcap of Deunan’s bike

© Warner Video

Many thanks to Fred from M80 / Warner Brothers for the links to the artworks above and informing me of the existence of the official site (the intro video contains the some of the best action sequences of the 2:18 teaser – also available on MySpaceTv) . Below’s two captures from the teaser. Click for high resolution versions.

© Warner Video

Fred also notified me of a Appleseed : Ex Machina trailer remix contest for US residents. While non-US residents can of course register to play around with the nifty trailer remixer, they are ineligible for the grand prize for an all expenses paid trip for 2 to WonderCon 2008 in San Francisco to meet the makers of Appleseed : Ex Machina As a concession, non-US registrants like me get to watch a few extra clips from the film not seen in the teaser video.

Below is a screenshot of what you can expect to play with at the trailer remix site – 15 video clips and 6 MP3s in total for you to mash-up and express your creativity.

My favourite video clips are: Clip 9 where Briareos tackles the target range with dual SMGs (Seburo MN-23s?) firing and Clip 12 where the acrobatic Deunan singlehandedly takes out a minigun-toting foe. And Clip 8 is just plain cool – ejected brass cartridges and empty magazines falling in slow motion and slick action sequences – pure style in this one

© Warner Video

The 1 min soundtrack snippets are pretty listenable too – love the soaring instrumentation of Tetsuya Takahashi’s Synchronicity and the manic breakbeats of Shogo Ohnishi’s Speed Star. Preview the tracks below.

Ex Machina
Mission
Speed Star
Synchronicity
Sortie
Buddy

Download the wallpapers at the official Warner Videos’ Appleseed : Ex Machina HD DVD site or create your trailer remix @ www.appleseedtrailerremix.com. The contest ends on 07 February 2008 so check out www.appleseedtrailerremix.com if you’re interested.

© Warner Video

I’m pretty hyped up about Appleseed : Ex Machina right now, hope it’s as good as the lovely Deunan says it is

Oh yeah, this is the last post for this month (and this year) – going to be on holiday till next year so posting will resume on 8 Jan 2008

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Official Japanese Appleseed : Ex Machina Wallpapers
Appleseed Wallpapers @ Madman Entertainment
The Best John Woo’s Stranglehold Trailer – The E3 2005 Trailer.
Stranglehold Wallpapers

Drivey by Mark Pursey is a cool application perfect for use as a screensaver or as a relaxation tool.

The graphics in Drivey reminds me of those driving simulation toys I played as a kid back in the 80s. Watching the landscape go by really relaxes me

The screenshots below don’t really do Drivey justice so download and give Drivey a test drive.

Default setting

Going home

Before sunrise

Tunnel vision

My favourite setting

Some useful keys for playing around with Drivey. Check out the other keys by pressing F1.

F3 – Toggle dashboard
Esc – Quit
1 – Change environment to very sparse road
2 – Change environment to tunnel
3 – Change environment to city
4 – Change environment to industrial
H – Change colours
K – Toggle colour cycling
C – Toggle between 0,8,16 and 24 cars
Ctrl – Speed up
Shift – Slow down

Download Drivey 0.15 (298k).

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Russ Schwenkler’s Vexel Car Art & Photorealistic 3D Car Renders
BMW Art Cars
Nissan 2009 GT-R Wallpapers
Forza Motorsport 2 Wallpapers

This fantastic artwork on a promotional wallpaper for BrikWars caught my eye as I was randomly browsing the web. It strongly reminds me of Kev Walker’s Last Stand artwork for Warhammer 40,000 Space Marines (bottom right picture).

© Mike Rayhawk

© Kev Walker / Games Workshop

Mikle Rayhawk’s BrikWars online rulebook for tabletop games of mini-fig warfare is a well-formatted and immensely enjoyable read for a rulebook (most rulebooks that I come across read more like my Mathematics textbook. Since combat between several mini-figs is a waste of the massive plastic brick collections that some collectors possess, rules are also provided for heroes and squad combat as well as for those who wish to include vehicles, large units and buildings for additional mayhem.

© Mike Rayhawk

The rules aren’t overly complex since they emphasize fun over rules-fiddling – I especially love the What I Say Goes rule in Chapter 1.2 which succintly states that “Players are smarter than rulebooks. Especially the ones with the highest dice rolls.” A very handy rule indeed for resolving difference of opinions during games

Unforunately the 8 chapters of rules are available as online HTML only so you’ll have to download it with a website copier like WinHTTrack if you wish to peruse it offline.

Read the BrikWars rules (10th Anniversary’s Edition – 2005) or download the cool wallpapers over at BrikWars. More of Mike’s artwork for BrikWars available at his official site.

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Warhammer 40,000 vehicles in Lego
Devil Brigade’s Lux – Customized Risk Game
Warhammer 40,000 Dark Crusade Wallpapers From RelicForums

It’s Halloween today so I’m presenting some cool Jack o’ Lantern wallpapers I found over at HQ Wallpapers, which I believe stands for High Quality Wallpapers

33 wallpapers in 1280×1024 resolutions of Jack o’ Lanterns carved with silly expressions and 6 other Halloween wallpapers of assorted designs.

© Nathan Wesling

Pics above have been edited so that the Jack o’ Lantern looks bigger

Although HQ Wallpapers didn’t state the source of these pics, I have googled a bit and found that these marvellous Jack o’ Lanterns were carved by Nathan Wesling of pumpkinway.com and have therefore credited him accordingly.

Happy Halloween!

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DarkWatch Wallpapers
CuteDeadThings Wallpapers
Martin Abel’s Comic Pin-up Wallpapers
The Darkness Wallpapers
Oneechanbara vorteX Wallpapers

Graffiti Studio 2.0 is a cool freeware application specially created by LRPD Vandalsquad for anyone who wants to experiment with graffiti art. As the official website has been online since 1997, I guess I’m late by 10(!) years in discovering this little gem

© Less Rain

Anyone remotely interested in drawing graffiti should play around with this application because unlike real-life graffiti artists, they:

• Need not look out or evade the police while concentrating on their work of art.
• Need not worry about buying spray cans of the wrong colours.
• Need not fear their artpiece being cleaned away as Graffiti Studio users get to upload their works to the Vandalsquad archives for posterity.

If you need inspiration, the archives and the most popular works are just a click away on the official site.

Some tips to get the most out of Graffiti Studio:

• Tapping Q moves the spray can nearer to the spray surface, resulting in a thicker and smaller area of paint. Tapping A does the opposite.
• Undo only resets the last spray. Therefore …
• Remember to save regularly. There’s only one save slot so the newest save always overwrites the previous one so save wisely.
• Don’t feel like a graffiti artist yet? Shake the can to get that familiar spray can sound

Below is one good reason why I should stick to writing posts instead of drawing.

(View in original size)

Download the Windows or Mac Classic version of Graffiti Studio from vandalsquad.com or mess around with the online version. (Click on the Paint Offline button and then select the PC or Mac version to download)

UPDATE (14 Sep 2008) : Graffiti Studio for Mac OSX users can be found here.

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Elphonso Lam – Artist / Toy Designer / Punk Rocker
Shin Tanaka’s Cool Paper Toys
Asian Artists @ Tiger Translate 2007
STAMP SG
Simone Legno – Tokidoki