Things like this give me goosebumps.
Ukrainian artist Valentin Kolontay brings us this medieval-style illumination of a Geralt of Rivia, professional Witcher, battling a striga. What elevates this from cool to sheer awesomeness is that it's a true medieval-style illumination. Mr. Kolontay produced everything that went into the final artwork, including iron gall ink, mineral pigments, egg emulsion, and the parchment itself, in the traditional way.
You've seen Joel Harlow's work as a makeup and creature designer in dozens of films. That includes pretty much every genre blockbuster of the last ten years. He also happens to be a fan of H.P. Lovecraft. Among his many personal projects is this maquette of the elder Whately brother from "The Dunwich Horror".
Blood for the Blood God! Skulls for the Skull Throne! Brutal Forge Workshop brings us this insane horned Chaos Knight of Khorne armor set.
This week I picked up the Cthulhu Statuette from Mytho Menagerie. It's a resin casting of a design from Eric Quick, which was then carved in wood by Nick Darmstaedter to produce the master. The piece retails for $65. It's produced on demand, so it took about two weeks from my order for the finished statuette to arrive at my door.
I absolutely adore this design. It has great lines, and different aspects of the detail work come out as your perspective shifts around the sculpt. I'm happy I picked it up, but I may repaint it. There's nothing wrong with the "Innsmouth Gold" finish, but the sculpt would really come to life with a jade finish.
Over the years I've contributed to a couple dozen films. And by "contributed" I mean an indy filmmaker asks if they can use some graphics and I say "Sure". If it's just for incidental use I request a credit to Propnomicon. In a few cases I've produced props for their film, usually some an artifact like a stone tablet or Cthulhu idol.
In all this time not a single one of those films was actually finished...until now.
The Lovecraftian time travel movie "Intersect" is now available on Amazon Prime Video. It's also apparently being streamed as part of this year's online incarnation of the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival.
All this is news to me, since I thought the project fell apart way back in 2012. The producers were documenting the making of the movie with a blog that showed off some really impressive production design. That included my small contribution, the Miskatonic University logo.
Sadly, my happiness was not to last.
The good news is that my Miskatonic University logo reportedly gets a few seconds of screen time in Intersect. The bad news is that I didn't get a credit. My quest for IMDB fame has fizzled out once again. Heh.
Worse, if the reviews on Amazon are any guide the movie is terrible.
"I was so distracted by the nose that if the movie had a point I probably would've missed it."
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"Bought this because I was desperate for a good movie... any good movie. I am still desperate for a good movie."
Oh, cruel fate, you mock me so. One of the movies I've contributed to finally gets released, and it's a disaster.
Things are moving along on the Mountains of Madness project. I've ordered the patches, lapel pins, and fieldbooks and they should all be in production by next week. I'm conservatively expecting delivery in 2-3 weeks barring any unexpected misfortune.
Here's a look at the layout for the fieldbooks. This should look familiar if you've used the pocket-sized Moleskine notebooks. The finished versions will be 3.5" by 5" with a rolled chipboard cover and 32 pages of 70# lined paper. The interior paper is fountain pen friendly.
Arthammer LARP Workshop returns to our pages with this ornately decorated set of armor based on the vampire armies of Warhammer.
