Riese: The Series

Episodes:
[1 |Official Website]

Riese is a world of moral ambiguity and political intrigue.
A decimated land populated by characters from dreams and nightmares. Loyalties are ever in question, suspicion in the minds of all. The realm, however, was not always so cruel. Everything began with a peaceful nation called Eleysia.

The Kingdom of the Wolf, Eleysia was once prosperous due largely to the influence of Empress Kara and Emperor Ulric. This all changed when a coup d’etat, orchestrated from the shadows by a religious cult,
brought about a total regime change.

Taking the throne was Amara, the Empress’s cousin.
A power-hungry tyrant, Amara immediately utilized Eleysia’s wealth and power to begin colonizing the world, crushing nation after nation in order to unite the people under one banner. Even as she assaulted the world, an ominous, enigmatic group clearly wielded power over her. Called The Sect, they purported themselves to be the official religion of Eleysia, and began to spread alongside Eleysia’s borders.

How to make a Big Daddy Costume

Blogger and Prop Maker Harrison Krix shows a step by step creation of Bioshock's Big Daddy brought to real life.

Proof:

Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core Cutscenes

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Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core (PSP)
by Square Enix
Platform: Sony PSP
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Bioshock Syringe Replica

Absolutely amazing replica of the ADAM syringe from Bioshock, made by Harrison Krix.
The same artist was featured in a previous post (Portal Gun Replica).

Love The Machine, Hate the Factory

For me, the biggest appeal to steampunk is that it exalts the machine and disparages the factory (this is the motto of the excellent and free *Steampunk* magazine: "Love the Machine, Hate the Factory"). It celebrates the elaborate inventions of the scientifically managed enterprise, but imagines those machines coming from individuals who are their own masters. Steampunk doesn't rail against efficiency -- but it never puts efficiency ahead of self-determination. If you're going to raise your workbench to spare your back, that's *your* decision, not something imposed on you from the top down.

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Article by Cory Doctorow.

Professor Dantes and the Severin Conundrum

Professor Dantes is one of the finest scienticians the world has to offer...but when an old rival threatens to steal the mysterious secrets of Aetherium, Dantes and his faithful manservant Bullsworth are forced into action!

Hemlock

[Fullscreen]

[Making Of]

i(Steam)Phone

Wonderful exploded iPhone design in old paper blueprint style.

If you want to order it, go here

Steampunk Mobile Phone

This is like technology reversed. This mobile phone has no dial buttons and it calls by sliding punched cards into it. This would definitely go on the wishlist if it wasn't fake.

Would it look better if it had bluetooth? And if it did, how about using this:

Mobile phone by Arthur Schmitt and Mechanical Aural Communication Device by nicrosin.

The Mysterious Explorations of Jasper Morello

Nominated for an Oscar and for a BAFTA award, Jasper Morello is a short feature made in a unique style of silhouette animation developed by director Anthony Lucas and inspired by the work of authors Edgar Alan Poe and Jules Verne. In the frontier city of Carpathia, Jasper Morello discovers that his former adversary Doctor Claude Belgon has returned from the grave. When Claude reveals that he knows the location of the ancient city of Alto Mea where the secrets of life have been discovered, Jasper cannot resist the temptation to bring his own dead wife Amelia back. But they are captured by Armand Forgette, leader of the radical Horizontalist anti-technology movement, who is determined to reanimate his terrorist father Vasco. As lightning energises the arcane machineries of life in the floating castle of Alto Mea, Jasper must choose between having his beloved restored or seeing the government of Gothia destroyed. Set in a world of iron dirigibles and steam powered computers, this gothic horror mystery tells the story of Jasper Morello, a disgraced aerial navigator who flees his Plague-ridden home on a desperate voyage to redeem himself.

Also winner of the Grand Prix award at the Annecy Animation Festival, Jasper has also won the top honours at the Canadian Film Centre's Worldwide Short Film Festival, Best Animation at Flickerfest 2005, Best Animation at the Sydney Film Festival Dendy awards and Best Animation at Toronto worldwide shorts.

Scrabble Keyboard by the Datamancer

This keyboard was commissioned by a couple of friends of mine from back east (NJ) who are avid Scrabble players. Most of the keys are made from real Scrabble tiles that were all hand-beveled (truly an exercise in patience/masochism!) and built onto a USB, clicky, mechanical-switch keyboard. This keyboard was going into a Mac environment so I decided to use brushed aluminum for the casing and round all of the corners to keep with the sleek, simple Macintosh styling. Near the end of the build, I decided that the keyboard looked a little too minimalist so I added some silver hardware and a seam to put a slightly industrialized twist on the design.

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Chubu 01

新年早々、TOKYO CULTUARTに行って来ました。
ＯＰＥＮしてから行くのは初めてです。

当初と少しだけレイアウトが変わっていて、
以前チューブは店内左手に２体並んでいたのですが、
汚れチューブの方は

Just kidding. Kazushi Kobayashi's Chubu 01 is a robot from an alternate 1957 where robots are the primary mode of transportation. Read more here (if you can).

Steampunk Dalek

Before you ask, no, it isn't a working model.

The main body is made from a plastic Dalek bubble-bath bottle I bought very cheaply at Woolworth's in the post-Christmas sales. At the time I had no idea what I could use it for, but it looked too cool to pass up. I disassembled it and spray-painted the parts with a can of gold Plastikote paint after masking off the two silver arms on the front. The wheels, cylinders, chimney stack, and 'bumpers' came from a rather tacky brass model of Stephenson's Rocket I bought for £5 at a car boot sale. The brass brush on the end of the gun is the head of a rotary wire brush attachment that came with a mini-drill set. The pressure gauge, dome, whistle, safety valve, water level gauge, and valve are all bits and pieces I had lying around the workshop (I used to be into model engineering). All the brass parts were painstakingly cleaned and polished with Scotchbrite, Autosol, and Brasso. It is held together with a combination of screws, hot melt glue, and cyanoacrylate glue. I left the plastic bottle inside the body because the neck acts as the turret bearing - I haven't opened it so it must still be full of bubble-bath!

Steam Wars

If the story of Star Wars had been set in World War II, these would be the action figures sold to support the movies. This set of action figures was customized by Sillof. Yes, he could’ve cheated and substituted Indiana Jones for Han Solo, but he didn’t.

More screenshots in Sillof's Website. Check out other collections as well.

Steampunk Flux Capacitor Clock

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A Gentleman's Duel

An animated short by Blur studio.

Finding Nemo at a Game Studio's Steampunk Office Suite

From the outside, the offices of San Francisco game company Three Rings Design look like any small game studio, but the building's bowels are leagues from ordinary. The company's loft, in the trendy South of Market district, has been painstakingly outfitted to resemble The Nautilus from Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. The offices have an attacking octopus couch, a secret lounge hidden behind a bookcase, captain's quarters and a steampunk bike rack, plus a ton of other Victorian details.

Steampunk Sculptures by Stéphane Halleux

Simply put, Stéphane Halleux makes some super awesome steampunk sculptures!

Steampunk Watch, an interview with Haruo Suekichi

Haruo Suekichi has made thousands of watches, each with an individual name. And to think it all started with a one-armed man at a flea market in Japan.