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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Saturday, March 12, 2011
The goon - comic book series
So i was tipped off by a good freind of mine Liam English, about a comic book series called The Goon, it seems to be one of the few comic book series about zombies, but seriously this comic book series has EVERYTHING, Gangsters, Zombies, killing, extreme violence, werewolves, giant spiders that owe money. i mean if you can think it, its probably in the series. So far i have read Books (each book contains 3 -4 comics) 0 (rough stuff) and 1 (Nothin But Misery), along with this i have read "Chinatown" which is bot book 4 as well as a iphone app.
it is gripping stuff, they manage to make The GOON, so the main protagonist, have a lot of back story that keeps the reader enthralled. his right hand man Franky is pure comic releif, but for somone so small he is so damn violent.
The Goon and Franky are part of Labrazio's (mob boss) racket, the largest mob faction, and the main rival gang belongs to the Zombie priest who is growing stronger each day and every man killed in the clan wars. obviously the only man the zombie hoard are afraid of is The Goon... for good reason too, he absolutely kicks ass.
The goon comic series is a must for anyone with a interest in comic books and zombies, and mobs... damn it, its simply a must!
the zombies, do have memory and intelligence in this series, but suffer from immense stupdity, they are simple thugs, nothing too special, most likley jsut a way to distinguish the two rival factions. this is of course a effective way of doing things. though not exactly useful when it comes to my animation, there are some very detailed visual elements that can be dialed down and incorporated into my own zombie style.
The goon series has some great one liners that will be making a appropriated appearance in my animation. they are simply too good to not tribute!
read it! trust me!
it is gripping stuff, they manage to make The GOON, so the main protagonist, have a lot of back story that keeps the reader enthralled. his right hand man Franky is pure comic releif, but for somone so small he is so damn violent.
The Goon and Franky are part of Labrazio's (mob boss) racket, the largest mob faction, and the main rival gang belongs to the Zombie priest who is growing stronger each day and every man killed in the clan wars. obviously the only man the zombie hoard are afraid of is The Goon... for good reason too, he absolutely kicks ass.
The goon comic series is a must for anyone with a interest in comic books and zombies, and mobs... damn it, its simply a must!
the zombies, do have memory and intelligence in this series, but suffer from immense stupdity, they are simple thugs, nothing too special, most likley jsut a way to distinguish the two rival factions. this is of course a effective way of doing things. though not exactly useful when it comes to my animation, there are some very detailed visual elements that can be dialed down and incorporated into my own zombie style.
The goon series has some great one liners that will be making a appropriated appearance in my animation. they are simply too good to not tribute!
read it! trust me!
Friday, March 11, 2011
My zombies - what i want from them
well, after doing a bucnh of reviews of movies, looking at zombies and reading about them, maybe i need to lay out what im looking for in a zombie.
To me a zombie must be uniform, one zombie cannot be smarter than others, they have to be lifeless, dead in the eyes, they do not register that their is a human standing in front of them but instead register food. they are slow, they creep forward limping, stagaring, forever after their prey. they are unintelligent, they do not possess the ability to think or even talk beyond a moaning, or for comic effect "brrraaaaiiinnsss".
My zombies are to be feared on teh basis of infection, there is a simple method to figuring out the infection rate: you get bitten = 2 hours = dead = 1 hour= zombie! so 3 hours is your time limit, to kill one. once zombified they wil live for up to 10 years depending on factors such as climate and environment.
but overall, my zombies are to be generic, even though they are the walking dead i do not want them to be seen as really scary, they are a product of imagination, i am not implying that they are in anyway real, they have to be seen as objects of a story. they are all to be similar, similar height, weight, build. there will be minor differences but nothing too substantial, they will be seen on a individual basis as well a hoard, they will be seen as never ending, much like it would be if there was a zombie apocalypse, to begin with you would be looking at the zombies as individuals sympathising with them, trying no to think about what they had to live for before smashing their head off. no, as time goes by the zombies would turn into this generic mass, you would stop caring about them, stop thinking of them as people and just a singular entity, mush like a mosquito or a cane toad... just much larger.
To me a zombie must be uniform, one zombie cannot be smarter than others, they have to be lifeless, dead in the eyes, they do not register that their is a human standing in front of them but instead register food. they are slow, they creep forward limping, stagaring, forever after their prey. they are unintelligent, they do not possess the ability to think or even talk beyond a moaning, or for comic effect "brrraaaaiiinnsss".
My zombies are to be feared on teh basis of infection, there is a simple method to figuring out the infection rate: you get bitten = 2 hours = dead = 1 hour= zombie! so 3 hours is your time limit, to kill one. once zombified they wil live for up to 10 years depending on factors such as climate and environment.
but overall, my zombies are to be generic, even though they are the walking dead i do not want them to be seen as really scary, they are a product of imagination, i am not implying that they are in anyway real, they have to be seen as objects of a story. they are all to be similar, similar height, weight, build. there will be minor differences but nothing too substantial, they will be seen on a individual basis as well a hoard, they will be seen as never ending, much like it would be if there was a zombie apocalypse, to begin with you would be looking at the zombies as individuals sympathising with them, trying no to think about what they had to live for before smashing their head off. no, as time goes by the zombies would turn into this generic mass, you would stop caring about them, stop thinking of them as people and just a singular entity, mush like a mosquito or a cane toad... just much larger.
zombie movie night #2
Ok, so its been a little while since i posted.. i should have done this one ages ago, so 4 weeks late here is..
THE ZOMBIE MOVIE NIGHT #2 SYNOPSIS
MOVIE #1
Movie: BRAINDEAD (Blood Edition)
Braindead was a truly amazing movie, it is horrifying, disgusting, and extremely funny. Directed by peter jackson and set in New Zealand, we follow the exploits of a New Zealand man whose mother gets bitten by the rare Sumatran Rat Monkey and thus gets inected and turns into a zombie. He struggles to let his mother go and atempts to restrain her and keep her from the public when she turns into a zombie. but as all these movies go, the plan never really works. it seems that nearly half the town get bitten and throw a massive zombie party in his house leading to a massive massacre and copious amount blood ( 1 gallon of blood every 3 seconds on average throughout the movie). this movie simply has everything, ZOmbies, Blood, monkeys, great one liners, using a lawnmower to dismember 1000's of zombies, syringes up noses, zombie baby, a Kun Fu Priest, birth and rebirth... simply purely brilliant.
The Zombies
The Zombies in BrainDead, are rather unusual, they resemble rotting corpses, with excess ooze and pus. however the zombies seem to posses a lot of memory and intellegnce. they have the dexterity to party, have sex, and do lots of other things. this doenst hold true to the normal definition of a zombie. but in the aid of the comedic factor it kinda works. The zombies are able to form some sort of relationship, and copulate a child.. this brings me to the zombe baby, that thing is seriously evil! its fast, and strong, seems ot be ruddy intellegent and nearly impossible to kill. again its purely there for a good laugh.
Over all BrainDead is a great movie, though not a classic zombie movie, it features some excllent one liners and scenes that can be referenced in my Zday movie, it is such a classic film that it deserve a tirbute. the zombies however are not really suitable for my animation.
MOVIE #2
Movie: 28 Days Later
28 Days later was a rather good movie, very cinematic and tense. set in london in recent times, some animal activists let some chimps/ monkeys out of their cages that have been scientifically altered to be enraged, so in essence they have been infected with rage or something like that. After this intro we cut to the main protagonist who wakes up after brain surgery to find there is no one around, the entire hospital is deserted as well as london. there is crap everywhere with clippings that show us that the infection spread and people are running scared. the main guy meets up with a couple of survivors and a bunch of zombies when they are trying to find out the guys family. then they meet up with a father a daughter combo who have been living in a apartment. they set off across country to find a safe haven, that is bening broadcasted from. they set off and encounter more and more zombies. they find the safe zone the dad dies cause no one is there then they meet up army guys who pretty much only want sex then all this crap goes down where the protagonist survives being murdered then goes on a rampage and sabotages the army dudes barracks. and then they run off to find a new haven.
The Zombies
the zombies in 28 days later are not real zombies, they arnt actually dead, they are normal people just enraged and want to kill and eat other people. the zombies are not decomposing, though they are pale and have red around the eyes, kinda of liek they have been crying a lot. They move very fast and show very limited intelligence.
Overall 28 days later is a great film, not though that it is not a great Zombie film, this is because is hard to actually call them zombies. The whole film had depth, and character buildup, suspense, drama, not so much horror. it a film worth watching but not one worth referencing.
MOVIE #3
Movie: The Re-Animator
This movie looked rather terrible to begin with, but actually turned out to be quite good, we had our evil creepy looking young scientist who transfer from some russian or german country and become room mates with the american jock med student who is very passionate abotu saving people... of course the jock happens to be dating the deans daughter so has some action going at the side (love triangle kinda of thing). the deans daughter is teh dumb blonde stereotype and is obviously destined to die and is the object of everyone desires... however the creep fella turns out to be rather good, he develops some sort of serum that "re animates" dead bodies, and wants to test it out on cadavers at teh med school, it still falls in a ethical grey area so he need help form the jock guy (after demonstrating with his cat). The dean is horrified expels teh students, and some surgeon dude gets all involved and turns out he is the real bad guy, stealing break throughs and lusting after the deans daughter. he gets killed then brought back to life by the initial creepy guy, now a severed head a corpse combo the surgeon fella goes on a rampage bring back other corpses so he can kidnap the deans daughter and make lots a moolah from the experiment. end of the day, the jock and creepy guy combo save them all untill the deans daughter dies in the end only to be re-animated in the end (cue the Re-aniamtor 2)
The Zombie:
the Zombies in the Re-aniamtor, initially are not true zombies, they posess a fair amount of intelligence and memory, they are not infectious and have no initial desire to kill, the longer the corpse has been dead the angrier it is but aside from that nothing too drastic. However if a lobotomy is performed on the zombies they are they very zombie like, they have no intelligence and have very limited functionality. Though with this process apparently they can be controlled with super mind powers and be used to kill and restrain people while you work your dastardly plans. there is a mix of zombie ideas in this movie, it is hard to say wether they are good or not, they lack the scariness of the potential infection factors that normal zombies possess but seeing cadavers rise up seem to be all this movie needs to shock people.
Over all the Re-aniamtor is a good zombie flick, a bit different and initially has some scientific merit, its a bit awkward but still a good watch. it lacks some of the more classic elements that wold make it vital for me to incorporate into my zday animation.
THE ZOMBIE MOVIE NIGHT #2 SYNOPSIS
MOVIE #1
Movie: BRAINDEAD (Blood Edition)
Braindead was a truly amazing movie, it is horrifying, disgusting, and extremely funny. Directed by peter jackson and set in New Zealand, we follow the exploits of a New Zealand man whose mother gets bitten by the rare Sumatran Rat Monkey and thus gets inected and turns into a zombie. He struggles to let his mother go and atempts to restrain her and keep her from the public when she turns into a zombie. but as all these movies go, the plan never really works. it seems that nearly half the town get bitten and throw a massive zombie party in his house leading to a massive massacre and copious amount blood ( 1 gallon of blood every 3 seconds on average throughout the movie). this movie simply has everything, ZOmbies, Blood, monkeys, great one liners, using a lawnmower to dismember 1000's of zombies, syringes up noses, zombie baby, a Kun Fu Priest, birth and rebirth... simply purely brilliant.
The Zombies
The Zombies in BrainDead, are rather unusual, they resemble rotting corpses, with excess ooze and pus. however the zombies seem to posses a lot of memory and intellegnce. they have the dexterity to party, have sex, and do lots of other things. this doenst hold true to the normal definition of a zombie. but in the aid of the comedic factor it kinda works. The zombies are able to form some sort of relationship, and copulate a child.. this brings me to the zombe baby, that thing is seriously evil! its fast, and strong, seems ot be ruddy intellegent and nearly impossible to kill. again its purely there for a good laugh.
Over all BrainDead is a great movie, though not a classic zombie movie, it features some excllent one liners and scenes that can be referenced in my Zday movie, it is such a classic film that it deserve a tirbute. the zombies however are not really suitable for my animation.
MOVIE #2
Movie: 28 Days Later
28 Days later was a rather good movie, very cinematic and tense. set in london in recent times, some animal activists let some chimps/ monkeys out of their cages that have been scientifically altered to be enraged, so in essence they have been infected with rage or something like that. After this intro we cut to the main protagonist who wakes up after brain surgery to find there is no one around, the entire hospital is deserted as well as london. there is crap everywhere with clippings that show us that the infection spread and people are running scared. the main guy meets up with a couple of survivors and a bunch of zombies when they are trying to find out the guys family. then they meet up with a father a daughter combo who have been living in a apartment. they set off across country to find a safe haven, that is bening broadcasted from. they set off and encounter more and more zombies. they find the safe zone the dad dies cause no one is there then they meet up army guys who pretty much only want sex then all this crap goes down where the protagonist survives being murdered then goes on a rampage and sabotages the army dudes barracks. and then they run off to find a new haven.
The Zombies
the zombies in 28 days later are not real zombies, they arnt actually dead, they are normal people just enraged and want to kill and eat other people. the zombies are not decomposing, though they are pale and have red around the eyes, kinda of liek they have been crying a lot. They move very fast and show very limited intelligence.
Overall 28 days later is a great film, not though that it is not a great Zombie film, this is because is hard to actually call them zombies. The whole film had depth, and character buildup, suspense, drama, not so much horror. it a film worth watching but not one worth referencing.
MOVIE #3
Movie: The Re-Animator
This movie looked rather terrible to begin with, but actually turned out to be quite good, we had our evil creepy looking young scientist who transfer from some russian or german country and become room mates with the american jock med student who is very passionate abotu saving people... of course the jock happens to be dating the deans daughter so has some action going at the side (love triangle kinda of thing). the deans daughter is teh dumb blonde stereotype and is obviously destined to die and is the object of everyone desires... however the creep fella turns out to be rather good, he develops some sort of serum that "re animates" dead bodies, and wants to test it out on cadavers at teh med school, it still falls in a ethical grey area so he need help form the jock guy (after demonstrating with his cat). The dean is horrified expels teh students, and some surgeon dude gets all involved and turns out he is the real bad guy, stealing break throughs and lusting after the deans daughter. he gets killed then brought back to life by the initial creepy guy, now a severed head a corpse combo the surgeon fella goes on a rampage bring back other corpses so he can kidnap the deans daughter and make lots a moolah from the experiment. end of the day, the jock and creepy guy combo save them all untill the deans daughter dies in the end only to be re-animated in the end (cue the Re-aniamtor 2)
The Zombie:
the Zombies in the Re-aniamtor, initially are not true zombies, they posess a fair amount of intelligence and memory, they are not infectious and have no initial desire to kill, the longer the corpse has been dead the angrier it is but aside from that nothing too drastic. However if a lobotomy is performed on the zombies they are they very zombie like, they have no intelligence and have very limited functionality. Though with this process apparently they can be controlled with super mind powers and be used to kill and restrain people while you work your dastardly plans. there is a mix of zombie ideas in this movie, it is hard to say wether they are good or not, they lack the scariness of the potential infection factors that normal zombies possess but seeing cadavers rise up seem to be all this movie needs to shock people.
Over all the Re-aniamtor is a good zombie flick, a bit different and initially has some scientific merit, its a bit awkward but still a good watch. it lacks some of the more classic elements that wold make it vital for me to incorporate into my zday animation.
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