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December 9, 2020
Cinefex Black Friday Videos
We just wrapped up our 2020 Black Friday sale at Cinefex, offering two-for-one on 40 years-worth of back issues. The sales over now, but here are the three videos I created to promote the event online. Movie buffs will get the references in a heartbeat!
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November 20, 2020
Spend Winter in the Stone Age
What better way to spend a cold winter’s evening than curled up with a good old historical murder mystery? In fact, you could even go pre-historical with my Neolithic detective novel Talus and the Frozen King.
Return to the dawn of time with wandering bard Talus and his companion Bran, as they journey to the island realm of Creyak, where the king has been murdered. From clues scattered among the island’s mysterious barrows and stone circles, they begin their search for the killer. Nobody ...
October 26, 2020
Wings Too Wide – A Short Story from FantasyCon 2000
Wings Too Wide is a short story I wrote for FantasyCon 2000. Organised by the British Fantasy Society, FantasyCon is an annual celebration of all things wonderful in speculative fiction, culminating in the spectacular British Fantasy Awards ceremony.
Read a review of FantasyCon 2000 by convention organiser David Howe
The story appeared in the menu for the convention’s final banquet, a dragon-themed affair entitled The Slayer’s Surfeit. Invited to contribute the centrepiece story for th...
October 23, 2020
Roots of Cinema – Handschiegl Twin Camera Matte Process
If you’re interested in the history of visual effects, you’re probably familiar with the Williams process. By combining two separate filmed scenes, it enables a filmmaker, for example, to place an actor inside a miniature environment. The Williams process relied on what became known as a traveling matte, and I’ve written about it before, in a Cinefex article called C is for Composite. Here’s a brief extract:
Early travelling mattes were created using a variant on the bi-pack method, inven...
October 21, 2020
VIEW Conference Wallpapers
Here’s a trio of VIEW Conference wallpapers for your PC, lovingly created at 1920x1080px resolution. Just right-click or alt-click on the image to download it to your desktop.
VIEW Conference 2020 Wallpaper 1 – right-click or alt-click to download
VIEW Conference 2020 Wallpaper 2 – right-click or alt-click to download
VIEW Conference 2020 Wallpaper 3 – right-click or alt-click to downloadEach wallpaper is based on a still frame from one of the videos I’ve created to promote the even...
October 19, 2020
“Tenet” Secrets and More Unveiled at View Conference
In the year 2020, few films have caught the public imagination more than Tenet. More than just a film, Christopher Nolan’s mind-bending espionage thriller has come to represent nothing less than a fight for survival by a theatrical feature industry brought to its knees by a global pandemic.
On Friday 23 October, Andrew Jackson, Tenet visual effects supervisor, will discuss his work on the film. Tenet marks the second collaboration between Nolan and Jackson, who was visual effects supervis...
October 16, 2020
“School of Alyxa” Trilogy – 5-Star Reviews for German Editions
My fantasy adventure trilogy School of Alyxa is finally complete, in its original German incarnation, at least. What’s more, I’m delighted to report the three novels have been picking up a heap of 5-star reviews on Amazon.
In case you’re wondering, I wrote these novels for middle-grade readers in my native language of English, under the pseudonym R.L. Ferguson. Trust me, if I’d tried to write a novel in German, the result wouldn’t have been pretty. First publication was by Ravensburge...
October 8, 2020
VIEW Conference 2020 – Free Access to all Sessions Online
VIEW Conference 2020 takes place soon from October 18 to 23. Italy’s premiere digital media conference unites 160 world-class filmmakers, producers, studio executives, animators, artists, game developers, musicians, journalists and educators for a lively week of 125 talks, workshops, masterclasses and panels. Traditionally held in Torino, Italy, this year’s conference will be an entirely virtual event, with all sessions being made available online to a global audience. To celebrate its 21st ...
September 24, 2020
Publishers Weekly Reviews Dragoncharm
Fresh in this week is a brand new Publishers Weekly review of my epic fantasy novel Dragoncharm. Here’s an extract:
This fantasy adventure about feuding dragon species from Edwards offers well-rounded characters and moments of true excitement … Edwards hits the ground running with thrilling action scenes and steadily mounting tension.
My debut novel, Dragoncharm was originally published in 1995, in the UK by HarperCollins under its Voyager Books imprint, and by HarperPrism in the US. I...
September 17, 2020
VIEW 2020 Goes Virtual with an Incredible Streaming Lineup
The creative powerhouse that is VIEW Conference 2020 takes place October 18-23rd, and this year all 90+ sessions are streaming online to a global audience. So you can choose to enjoy the beautiful surroundings of Turin, Italy, or immerse yourself in the incredible lineup from the comfort of your armchair!
Industry titans from the animation, visual effects, games, and immersive media industries are giving over 90 sessions over six days, including talks, keynotes, panels, workshops, and mas...
