Month: February 2013

Fantasy

The inspiration behind the Fate’s Fables book trailer


When I saw paper sculptor, Su Blackwell’s art, I fell in love with the way she made old books come to life with her whimsical, fairy tale cutouts springing from the pages. Seeing these enchanting scenes instantly inspired ideas for my book trailer. After all, Fate is cast into a magical book, where she becomes

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Geek Chic Shades


It’s not very often that you come across modern sci-fi blended with centuries old art techniques, but using Tiffany style stained glass work to create Star Wars and Halo helmets – well that’s TOTALLY off the hook! Michael McLane is a true master and I hope one day I can commission him to make an

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I just found a 3D version of the Hades Nebula!


If you know your nebulas, you know there’s no ‘Hades Nebula’, but this one is pretty darn close to the one I imagined in Fate’s Fables. Here’s the excerpt: Where the sky had deepened to indigo, she could just make out the sickly green and clotted red of the Hades Nebula and the smoldering, molten

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