The 3-minute animation that opens The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword has leaked, and you can watch the whole thing right here. It’s a beautiful, watercolor-on-parchment style animation, though the English translation of this Japanese version is typically broken — and kinda cute. Read more »
People really can make art out of anything these days. Proof positive: Bashir Sultani’s “Art with Salt,” a self-conceived art medium that the artist uses to draw portraits of famous people. And recently, he decided to use salt to create portraits of two very famous fictional characters: Nintendo‘s Link and Mario. Read more »
UPDATE: This contest is now closed. All five winners have been selected and notified (via Twitter). Thanks for participating, and watch for more contests here at ForeverGeek.com! Our good friends at Threadless are giving away 5 of these brand-new, geektastic t-shirts exclusively to ForeverGeek readers! The design is called “URL LINK,” and it depicts Legend of Zelda‘s hero drawn using website URLs. Winning one is easy — here’s how to enter. Read more »
Last week, while I was combing the bazaars of Kuala Lumpur for little trinkets to take home as gifts, I came across tons of stuff that I suppose will delight many of our ForeverGeek readers. From Domo-kun plushies and shirts to Angry Birds key chains to Superman/Batman belts to geek-themed mouse pads – they were all over the place. I remember the last group of items particularly because I remember thinking to myself “Who uses mouse pads these days?” I’ve been wrong before, and I am probably wrong now. If DesignNoy’s Etsy Shop is any indication, people still do use mouse pads. What’s more, people pay for the mouse pads, Read more »
I’m sure you’ve seen those awesome “untooned” images, where some talented digital artist created a photo-realistic version of a famous cartoon character, depicting what they would look like if they existed in real life. Here’s a collection of the very best of the best. Read more »
Legend of Zelda fans: you can’t live without this absolutely killer map of Hyrule. Nintendo’s bestselling fictional fantasy world has never looked better (or been taken more seriously) than it is in this ingenious, high-quality map. In honor of the game’s 25th anniversary, artist Bill Mudron spent who-knows-how-many hours pouring an insane amount of detail into this one giant image, which shows the versions of Hyrule depicted in the first Legend of Zelda game and The Adventure of Link. A close-up view of the map reveals that items, palaces, and dungeons are all marked on the map. For $40 plus shipping, a 24″ x 36″ print of Mudron’s amazing Hyrule Read more »
I somehow managed to miss one of the most elaborate April’s Fools I’ve ever seen on the internet. A very well made (though slightly rough-around-the-edges) trailer for Legend of Zelda the movie. If they had gone the extra mile to remove some of the less polished scenes, like the ones with Ganondorf for instance, I could have certainly passed as the “real deal”. The idea is great, and I’m certain that the fan-base alone would be alone to support this idea.Let’s hope Nintendo takes the hint and brings this to the next (real) level. If they did it, although terribly, for Mario, it shouldn’t be much harder to do it Read more »
