Flamdoogle

Google. What happened? You used to be so...steady. New, exciting, trustworthy. I mean it's a free service, so I feel bad complaining, but trying to make me start a new blogger profile when I'm just trying to sign in to my blog...that I've had...for years (which is sad in it's own right). Weirdness. Hopefully by the end of this post I'll be able to add a post title, since right now you've decided I can't.

Anywho, NEILL! What's up? Been pretty dark lately. No news 'bout nothing.

Well, I got some, I'm finally trying to make my movie...s again.  Hopefully for more than a few days this time. Anyway, one of the two flicks I want to make has this weird thing in it. I was looking for pig ref and came across some of Jenny Saville's images. I forget sometimes how much I love her work. So gawddamned good.

Anyway, hopefully I'll get something together soon to show people.

Sorry, for the shitty, boring post. Been crazy lately.

Poopsmell.

Doug

Da Day Job

Sup Neill? Well, here's two years of my life. This is the game I've been art directing. I'm pretty proud of these fuckers. It's pretty fun too! So I'm not just twiddling my thumbs here....waiting for a call....

Swamp Donkey

So...Neill, I gots a question. I had this passed along to me, and it's fucking great. I love mixing this creepy creature shit with humor. I love the creature design. I love these characters. I feel like I knew these guys when I lived in Port Angeles (fuck you Twilight), I know exactly what that guys hair looks like under that hat. And the thing is, these guys are crude, crazy muther fuckers; but they're actually pretty good guys when you get to know them. Fun to drink with! Shit, the question; so man, did you do this?

Because, my buddy Rex sure as shit noticed the similarities between this and your AGM Heartland teaser from Wired awhile ago.

Am I a fucking code breaker? Shut your mouth Rex, you didn't figure out shit. You're a fucking dick Rex. Ok, so Rex might have figured out some similarities, but I have the blog, so I fucking get to say I found this shit. Rex is a little dicked fucker. Gawdammit Rex...he's grabbing a ruler and pulling his pants down...dammit. Rex, you're an asshat.

Anyway, these are both fucking cool, I'm guessing they're linked, but are they? If they're not, someone's apeing you, but really well. What do you crazy followers of this blog think? Should Neill come forward, remove his skin like those old guys from Cocoon, and tell us if he made these? Or should we just basked in his glowy alien light? Wait, this blog has followers? Who are you people? What's wrong with you?

Truly,

Sherlock Douglas John  Holmes III

One Eye Willy

Man, Neill, Elysium looks fucking sick. I love the style of the station, I like the ships, I love everything I've seen. I can't wait to see more.

Here's a super quick alien. I like drawing more than I like doing ZBrush. But I totally get why this is becoming more and more of the process. I might have spent around an hour and a half on this. Imagine a shitty director with no vision looking at this thing. "It looks 3-D!" I bet that's what they would say, and you would have to bite your tongue and nod.

Anyway, fun shit.

Doug

The Fermi Artifact

Neeeeiiiiiiilllllllll, sup dude. Holy shit, big week for you! I'm seeing tons of Elysium images from SDCC. Fuck, I wish I was there. Everything I'm seeing screams epic. Can't wait, man, I just can't fawking wait!

Anyway, here's a little alien skull I banged out in Z-Brush. I'm just beginning to learn the program. Dude, it's one of the most amazing, powerful programs I've ever used. it's also one of the most UN-intuitive programs I've ever used. Although, maybe it's not, maybe I'm just used to how other programs all ape each others layouts for a visual language of say, things like where and how to save.

Anyway, this was a skull found on the dark side of the moon near the Fermi crater. Did you know that we never stopped moon missions, until the eighties? It's true! We continued to find odd and strange artifacts the whole time, but then something happened...and for whatever reason, we stopped.

Or I was dicking around in Z-Brush and made this thing.  Either way.

Doug

E L Y S I U M

 Uh...my dick is hard.

Doulgascannotwait Williams

Sumerian Space Jockey

What the shit Neill? Did you dig Prometheus, or not? It's rude not to respond. You're not rude are you?

Well, I decided to fuck around last night and make a Space Jockey of my own. I decided to follow Giger's original a little more closely than the film look, but still keep Scott's 'it's only a space suit' idea. Although, in my mind, that hose will always be a trunk. Like my wiener. I also threw in some Sumerian head shape in there (the head wrapping).

So readers, did you guys dig Prometheus? Do you think this concept is cool? Do hotdogs taste better in the summer? Are you rude and don't feel like responding? Answer all these questions below.

Doug

Sculptris part duex...duo...doo...?

Sup Neill. You see Prometheus? What'd you think? I be tha' curious.

Anyway, sooper quick post. Fucking around in Sculptris again. Probably spent around an hour and a half on this. Maybe less.

I can see why people dig this shit, but for some reason everything ends up sort of looking the same. Not sure why. But it leaves for pretty boring creature design lately (imo). Although, D-9 didn't suffer from that, maybe it's a straight to digital thing. Who knows.

At any rate, this is the future of concept design. I remember picking up the Episode 2 art book and seeing guys like Ryan Church and Dermot Power doing amazing quick digital concepts. i knew that was where things were going and didn't want to get left behind (I was all markers at the time). Now I'm a little behind the curve, but I'll catch up.

I sort of like this alien though, something alluring about the mouth....something....

Doug

A call to arms...uh...arm.

Neill, I know, it seems like I just don't care anymore. I do though, I fucking swear it! I've been crazy busy. Between the game. family and trying to get shit together for this movie, time has been short. Shooooooorrrrrt.

Anyway, here's where I'm at with the arm. Still really fucking early, but it's coming together right? Sort of?

I'm using liquid latex mixed with acrylic paint and cotton balls. High tech stuff. If Weta's interested I could teach them some things, like where to buy cotton balls.

Honestly though, by the time it's got the silicone, and slime and blood and is painted, I think this shit is going to be pretty dope.

Plus, even if the movie never happens, I've made one of the most elaborate sex toys ever.

Douglestien

The HORROR!

First off, let me apologize. I lead a lot of people to this blog by pretending that I had LEAKED PROMETHEUS CONCEPT ART here. I do not. Fox is going to hold on to that shit tight, there's not going to be any LEAKED PROMETHEUS CONCEPT ART until they release PROMETHEUS CONCEPT ART.

So...sorry.

I'm also sorry to you Neill, and all the nutjobs who read this awful blog (seriously, what's wrong with you?). Things have been super crazy at work, and I'm trying to get this short film I want to make actually started. Speaking off, check out these silicone fingers, shits looking decent, right? I bought them on the cheap, but plan on making a lot of my own stuff from here on out.

Willard Cochrane gave me some advice on making the insectoid arm. I think it's going to be pretty fucking cool. Who's Willard? Oh, just some guy who worked on some old Neill Blomkamp shorts; Alive in Joburg and Yellow. Mwu ha ha ha ha ha!

But seriously...time has been fucking short lately.

Sorry, I've been slacking.

Doug

Face Hugger...uh...Sucker

Yo' Neill. How goes it, man?

Hey, just making sure you and Guillermo know, I know you guys aren't lazy. I know these movies take time. I'm just impatient as shit. that being said, I think the less I know about these flicks the better. I wish I had not sucked up all that Prometheus imagery.  I think I know too much.

So I've decided to go on a PROMETHEUS media blackout. I mean, I'll watch the trailers I've seen, over and over, and I'll watch that wonderful David Commercial, but hat's it.

I think a new trailer is out, or coming out with the Avengers, but I isn't gonna' see it.  Still my mind wanders, and makes me wonder about things in the current media blitz I've already seen, and what they might be.

Also, whenever a new trailer comes out, I get a shit ton of hits looking for things like PROMETHEUS CONCEPT ART, or OFFICIAL PROMETHEUS CONCEPT ART. I always feel bad for people who are looking for that art and end up here. I wonder if there's anyway to make sure that they don't find this site when searching for REAL OFFICIAL PROMETHEUS CONCEPT ART, or PROMETHEUS CONCEPTS REVEALED HERE. It would be awful if my site dragged people here looking for things like PROMETHEUS SECRETS REVEALED, or LEAKED PROMETHEUS ART, or PROMETHEUS CONCEPT ART LEAKED BY RIDLEY SCOTT LOCATED HERE.

So, this is my quick goofy idea of what that thing in the trailer might be. It's definitely not OFFICIAL PROMETHEUS CONCEPT ART.

Well, hope shit is good dude. Let me know if you find some OFFICIAL PROMETHEUS CONCEPT ART on any sites, I'd love to see some.

Oh...right...the black out.

Uh, OFFICIAL PROMETHEUS LEAKED IMAGES doesn't count.

Have a good one;

Doug

Guillermo del Toro wraps!

Yo, Neill, so guess what? Guillermo del Toro just wrapped on shooting for Pacific Rim. So now there's two of you lazy fuckers. What? Is that wrong? Hey, how hard can this part be? Add some After Effects, record some sounds- BANGO PRESTO- you have a movie.

But you two are taking a whole year for 'finishing' your movies? But dude, we want to see these movies incredibly badly. It's fucking torture. TORTURE! I mean, come on, at least throw some concept art, or storyboards, or more viral shit out there. It's killing all of us geeks. We can't survive on Prometheus alone.

We depend on awesome big budget sci-fi to help keep us alive, and what are we getting? Battleship. Battleship? How is this a movie? Maybe I'm wrong, maybe it will be amazing, but I'm having a hard time imagining it.

Here's how I imaging that movie plays out:

"Captain, we can't see them, we're firing blind!"

"Triangulate the last known positions of the aliens!"

"I'm guessing, but it's probably quadrant c-9!"

"Fire!!!"

"Direct hit!"

"Good job, Rhianna."

Then the aliens fire back at fleet and blow up a battleship...

"The bastards! They sank my Battleship!"

...aaaaaaand scene.

Maybe I'm wrong, maybe.

Hey, speaking of you and Guillermo, you both were up for that Halo flick. I heard rumors about Guillermo, and knew about you being attached to it. Let me just say, I'm glad neither of you tackled that franchise. I think both movies would have been great, but I think the other shit that has come out of that clusterfuck have been better. Guillermo is making...everything (Dreamworks animation ftw) and you went on to do District-9, which I really enjoyed.

I don't know if you knew that. That I liked District-9.  A lot.

Anyways, I know you two are working your asses off, and I honestly can't wait for these two films to come out.

Impatiently yours;

Duggle Butt.

Garbage Bot

Sup, Neill? Why is there no Elysium news? What...the...shit?

It's driving me crazy, man. Like super crazy. At least the P R O M E T H E U S marketing onslaught is keeping me busy. That and hobo fighting. Hobo's are scrappy!

Anyway, here's a bot I plan on building for my flick. It'll be made of foam and bits, with a flashing blue light. It'll be basically a cover over a shitty rc car.

I hate the signage on it right now, but it gets the idea across. All that will change.

It's like a space Roomba!

Doug

Crawling City...of death.

Just dicking around. You know Neill, I love sci-fi shit. I truly do. The hard part is thinking how things would really work in the real world. You do that, and sci-fi starts to suck.

Imagine this, a giant fucking city that crawls ever so slowly across the landscape. Now, it's a ghost town. A few random squatters, but for the most part; dead. Like a giant metal and concrete crustacean, rotting on a barren landscape.

Now think what it would take to make a city like that to move. And why the shit would you want it too? I mean, really. You would need a city of technicians just to make the walking city move. At the same time, who the fuck cares. It's sci-fi!

The conundrum.

Not much to report. Busy as fuck. So you get quick sketches...because you aren't paying me.

Hope shit is good.

Doug

Squidy

Neill, dude, I love tentacled monsters. I totally do. Not the kind from those Japanese cartoons, the ones always attacking school girls, but full on Lovecraftian beasties.

 No wonder that this guy was the one action figure I always wished they made. 

Fuck dude, The Last Starfighter is the shit. Ron Cobb designs, a ship that actually moves in space like it should, and 3-D motherfucking graphics. 3-D! That blew my mind when I saw it in the theater.

Anyways, tentacled aliens. We finally have the tech to make them amazing and what do we make intead? Predator jaws. Over...and over...and over...

Anyway, fuck. I really wish Guillermo del Toro had been able to make his Mountains film. I have a feeling that would have been the longest drink of water after a drought ever.

Oh one more thing....

This guy was one of my favorite action figures ever. Look at his name. Squid Head. Not over thought, very descriptive, squid head. You know what these guys are called now? Quarren. What the fuck? We over think shit too much now. Why does Squid Head have to have a fucking Wikipedia page? I guarantee you, when Nilos Rodis Jamero drew this guy, he fucking put a squid on a robed body. He was probably pressed for time and had drawn 92 other aliens that week and was all ,"Fuck it, I'll put a goddamned buck toothed squid on this guy." and was done with it.

The Star Wars wiki says this about this guy:

The character Davy Jones as in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest strongly resembles a Quarren, the most notable feature being the tentacles near the face. 

The Quarren also visually resemble the horror creature Cthulhu, created by the author H. P. Lovecraft.

Yeah...you know why? Because they have fucking squids for heads. SQUUUUIIIIIDDDDDSSSS.

Anyway...wow...that was an odd tangent.

Rockin' action figure.

Doug

Brain Down

Neill, what the fuck is it? I don't know. Sort of an alien-gazelle-spider-fetal thing. Whatever it is; shhhhhhh. It's sleeping.

It was a quicky, a cool down image. I'm like a fucking long distance runner lately, man! Work, work, work! But I need the occasional slow down-brain off art time. This fucking thing is Doug on autopilot. Cruise control.

Have you seen these trailers for PROMETHEUS? Good night, it looks ridonkulously awesome! There's actually very few movies I'm going crazy for. There's the DARK KNIGHT RISES, which is a great title, because it's also what I yell when I have a boner and am wearing my black thong. Then, of course, PROMETHEUS, fuck I don't care if it's in the ALIEN universe or not; just want to see. PACIFIC RIM, has my nuts in a lump, and it sucks becuse it's as far way off as your flick. Yeah, ELYSIUM. Shit, dude, why is it so far away. I mean, I really want to see it. Really bad.

I also want a jet car. So....those two things.

Anyway, shit man, hope all is good. I need to turn in.

Doug

Injector

Neill, sup' dude. Look, I made a prop! It's not dirtied up, but it's the main injector for the short. Originally I was making a clean sci-fi looking thing, but then I realized that this guy in essentially a junkie. At my old office park, I used to find crack pipes in the parking garage. What? Shit no, they weren't mine! I choose to drink my way into oblivion.

Anyway, they were always made up of plumbing items and crap you'd find at a hardware store. I figure, even though it's wired and shit, this should be the same level of craftsmanship.

The cap is removable, and you can slide the alternator fluids up the inside.

Yeah...fluids up the inside.

Doug

Dead Fairy

Neill, have you ever been racing down the highway at 60 mph, er...sorry, kph, and nailed a beautiful dragon fly? A butterfly? One big enough to make that 'thump' sound? Then did you feel sad, because you killed a beautiful piece of nature while racing to get your Tim Horton on? Now imaging if that was a fairy.

So sad.

I've always loved the whole green men stories and mythos. I love that Guillermo del Toro brought that shit back and made it cool again. Don't get me wrong, my girls love that Tinkerbell shit, and those straight to video movies are surprisingly well told and stunningly gorgeous; but I love GDT's take on tooth fairies in Don't Be Afraid of the Dark.

So this was a quicky of a dead fairy. Next to a cigarette butt. Making it even sadder.

You know..if there were dead fairies all over, I bet Charlotte Burkhart would make some fantastic jewelry out of them. So maybe that wouldn't be so bad.

Doug

Poo Poo Platter

Buzz, buzz. Sup' Neillomkamp?

How's shit been going? Hopefully all is good in post land. I went digging for Elysium news the other night, I have not done that in some time, and came across some set photo's I had not seen.

I know, how can I be the biggest fan, and not see everything? I have failed as an internet stalker. I didn't even know that you had three nipples! Okay, that might be a rumor, that I started, but still; I should have known.

Anyway, I saw a bitchin' car. It was totally Syd Mead meets Aaron Beck. I'm not going to link it, if anyone wants to check it out, you got to do that shit on your own.

How shit is cool on your end. Oh, the drawing? It's some sort of fly thing. Fuck I don't know. I've just been messing a lot with a new painting style. It's been fun. I think it's working well.

So well, that you should hire me for work on 'Chappie'.

What?

Doug

The Spiral

Shit...Neill, it's starting. The fucking spiral. The spiral to nothing getting done.

See, I sort of have a limited time to get this flick started, so really I have to be fucking smart about my decisions from the get go. So, Buggity Bugerson down below started to look really plain to me. Like, the original fly was cooler. So tonight I took almost an hour and made this guy. I like him more. But fuck if this shit isn't going to take three times as long to make.

Did I mention I have kids? Oh, and a day job that's pretty crazy lately? And sometimes I take on freelance? And I'm thirty...I think six.  Wait...thirty seven...no...six. Pretty sure it's six. Clock's ticking man, I got one foot in the grave. No, like a real grave. Shit, this dirt's sooooofffft.

Why am I in a graveyard? Oh, right; looking for gold. Metal detectors and graveyards; cha-ching!

I have to pay for this somehow.

Anyway, I'm so impressed that you made those fucking awesome shorts. For me, this is probably short idea number ninety seven or some shit that will never get finished.  Sigh.

I love you. I mean, your movies. Not like you, but shit, your movies.

Movies.

Yeah....

Doug