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scans_dailyHere are a few pages from Fables 99, regarding Mr Dark, the most recent Big Bad of the Fables universe. I found this guy interesting, as unlike the previous one, he isn't really trying to hide the fact that he's a horrible, terrible monster behind any guise of doing it for the Greater Good that Gepetto did.
He's a fascinating character in just seeing what he'll do next to make everyone miserable, making him probably the closest thing to Order of the Stick's Xykon in mainstream comics, at least while being in a similar setting. He exists purely to scare and torment and crush people, either emotionally or physically, because that's just what he DOES.
On a lighter but still fantasy based note, here is a trailer for Pixar's upcoming movie: Brave!
Brave is being advertised as being Pixar's first fantasy movie, which leads to the question as to how the cars in Cars and the toys in the Toy Story movies were moving about on their own but I digress. It's also their first movie to have a female protagonist, which is good in my opinion. Pixar and Dreamworks have some up with some interesting female characters in the past, but the fact that Pixar hasn't had one in the lead role is kind of weird.
It's being co-directed by Brenda Chapman, who directed Prince of Egypt and who is/was going to be Pixar's first female director, and the lead, Merida, was originally going to be played by Reese Witherspoon but they got rid of her midrecording and replaced her with an actual Scot, in the form of Broadwalk Empire's Kelly MacDonald.
There has been some contraversy over Chapman, as she was originally the creator of the movie, but was demoted to co-director for some reason or another. People are annoyed, I know that much.
Entertainment Weekly have a proper synopsis of the plot,
"Brave is set in the mystical Scottish Highlands, where Merida is the princess of a kingdom ruled by King Fergus (Billy Connolly) and Queen Elinor (Emma Thompson). An unruly daughter and an accomplished archer, Merida one day defies a sacred custom of the land and inadvertently brings turmoil to the kingdom. In an attempt to set things right, Merida seeks out an eccentric old Wise Woman (Julie Walters) and is granted an ill-fated wish. Also figuring into Merida’s quest — and serving as comic relief — are the kingdom’s three lords: the enormous Lord MacGuffin (Kevin McKidd), the surly Lord Macintosh (Craig Ferguson), and the disagreeable Lord Dingwall (Robbie Coltrane)."
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2011/03/28/brave-pixar-first-look/
And what I think are character designs,
More concept art here over on my blog of blogginess, one of which is Merida looking badass on a horse,
Probably all of the Irn Bru she's been drinking that allows her a bit more get-up-and-go than some of Disney's other feeling protagonists.
http://espanolbot.blogspot.com/2011/06/upcoming-movies-im-interested-in.html
Reminds me the varient covers for the Tiffany Aching Discworld books.
He's a fascinating character in just seeing what he'll do next to make everyone miserable, making him probably the closest thing to Order of the Stick's Xykon in mainstream comics, at least while being in a similar setting. He exists purely to scare and torment and crush people, either emotionally or physically, because that's just what he DOES.
On a lighter but still fantasy based note, here is a trailer for Pixar's upcoming movie: Brave!
Brave is being advertised as being Pixar's first fantasy movie, which leads to the question as to how the cars in Cars and the toys in the Toy Story movies were moving about on their own but I digress. It's also their first movie to have a female protagonist, which is good in my opinion. Pixar and Dreamworks have some up with some interesting female characters in the past, but the fact that Pixar hasn't had one in the lead role is kind of weird.
It's being co-directed by Brenda Chapman, who directed Prince of Egypt and who is/was going to be Pixar's first female director, and the lead, Merida, was originally going to be played by Reese Witherspoon but they got rid of her midrecording and replaced her with an actual Scot, in the form of Broadwalk Empire's Kelly MacDonald.
There has been some contraversy over Chapman, as she was originally the creator of the movie, but was demoted to co-director for some reason or another. People are annoyed, I know that much.
Entertainment Weekly have a proper synopsis of the plot,
"Brave is set in the mystical Scottish Highlands, where Merida is the princess of a kingdom ruled by King Fergus (Billy Connolly) and Queen Elinor (Emma Thompson). An unruly daughter and an accomplished archer, Merida one day defies a sacred custom of the land and inadvertently brings turmoil to the kingdom. In an attempt to set things right, Merida seeks out an eccentric old Wise Woman (Julie Walters) and is granted an ill-fated wish. Also figuring into Merida’s quest — and serving as comic relief — are the kingdom’s three lords: the enormous Lord MacGuffin (Kevin McKidd), the surly Lord Macintosh (Craig Ferguson), and the disagreeable Lord Dingwall (Robbie Coltrane)."
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2011/03/28/brave-pixar-first-look/
And what I think are character designs,
More concept art here over on my blog of blogginess, one of which is Merida looking badass on a horse,
Probably all of the Irn Bru she's been drinking that allows her a bit more get-up-and-go than some of Disney's other feeling protagonists.
http://espanolbot.blogspot.com/2011/06/upcoming-movies-im-interested-in.html
Reminds me the varient covers for the Tiffany Aching Discworld books.
