Category Archives: This Wins the Internet
Project: Rooftop Fantastic Four Designs Are In!
The Project: Rooftop Fantastic Four redesign costumes are in, and they are, pardon the pun, fantastic! If you don’t know, Project: Rooftop is a site dedicated to redesigning superhero costumes. They hold annual contests and even have some pros weigh in on the contestants. These contests produce some of the absolute coolest costume redesigns on the Internet. And I absolutely love this kind of artistic geekery. If only the real comic book companies relied on creative types like these when it came to giving their heroes new costumes.
The best DC Comics can come up with is to add a ton of piping and lines to their new superhero reboot costumes.
Anyway, check out the #1 entry, drawn by Alejandro Bruzzese!
Personally, I’m not a big fan of this design. I like what he was going for, with the color-coded T-shirts, but it doesn’t say ‘Fantastic’ to me. It definitely plays up the explorers/adventurnauts aspect of the Fantastic Four, but it’s not as elegant or awesome as it could be. Still, the judges voted this one as the very best, so who am I to argue?
Join me after the jump for the other winners and a couple of my favorites!
For Blue Power Ranger Fans
Once again the Internet gives without us even having to ask. Animator Mike McCraw has decided to use his infinite talents to make short little bursts of wicked cool Power Rangers animations. Along with Blue, he’s also done Black and Pink (the sexy Rangers), both of which are really good. I don’t know why these exist, but it doesn’t really matter. They do exist, the Internet has housed them and now they are ours to enjoy.
Now he just needs to make one for the Green Ranger…
Game of Violins
That people like Lindsey Stirling exist in the world makes me happy. She’s a violinist who has made it her sworn duty to cover all the awesome nerdy medieval songs. She already did the Skyrim theme, and here she is with Game of Thrones. Singer Peter Hollens is also on hand to make noises with his mouth.
A Tale of Boy Meets Ghoul
If I had these kinds of animation skills…I bet I’d be a pretty cool guy. Enjoy the story of a Scout from Team Fortress 2 running afoul of a Witch from Left4Dead in this classic tale of boy meets ghoul. That pun is quite good.
It seems the maker of the above video, Nailbiter, is looking for a job. I think he’s off to a good start.
Back to the Future in Grand Theft Auto 4
Some video game wizard made a Back to the Future mod in the PC version of Grand Theft Auto 4, which is where they go into the files and computer code and change the very nature of the game. But not only did they create a Marty McFly skin and a working Delorean…but it can travel through time. Not back to the age of the dinosaurs, mind you, but it can travel through in-game time. You gotta see this to believe this!
Some people have all the awesome skills.
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