Following the designs created under Daniel Falconer, art director and senior concept designer for Weta Workshop, the famed creation house of all things forged and fantastical, is releasing a new line of statues and replicas from The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, similar in style, look, and feel to Weta’s highly collected products from The […]
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We’re continuing our ten-year celebration of borg today with our favorite genre books. If you missed them, check out our Top 40 movies here and our Top 40 TV series here. We reviewed thousands of books and comics that we recommended to our readers since June 2011, and some even made it onto our favorites shelf. […]
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Review by C.J. Bunce Rarely has anyone been able to create a single work that includes so much information in such spectacular fashion about such an epic body of work. Writer Daniel Falconer has done just that with Middle-earth: From Script to Screen–Building the World of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, his […]
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Our borg.com Best of 2017 list continues today with the Best in Print. If you missed them, check out our review of the Best Movies of 2017 here, the Kick-Ass Heroines of 2017 here, and the Best in Television here. So let’s get going. Here are our selections for this year’s Best in Print: Best […]
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Review by C.J. Bunce A wealth of concept art for The Hobbit can be found in the fifth volume of Weta’s Chronicles series: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Art & Design. Writer and Weta artist and designer Daniel Falconer again delivers a stunning hardcover account of the behind-the-scenes artistry that forged the last of Peter […]
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Review by C.J. Bunce To learn what advancements are happening in technical moviemaking, you can always turn to Weta Workshop and Weta Digital. For the latest in cutting edge film work, you need only turn to the latest book on The Hobbit film series from Weta, its step by step chronicle of the development of the […]
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Review by C.J. Bunce How often have you wished you had access to detailed photographs of the costumes and props of your favorite sci-fi or fantasy franchise? Maybe for making your own costume, or maybe just to see up close what it might be like to be the actor wearing that cloak or holding that sword? […]
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If you haven’t seen the incredible bestselling book The Hobbit, An Unexpected Journey Chronicles: Art and Design, check out our earlier review here at borg.com. It’s a superb behind the scenes look at the artistry of the real-life wizards at Weta Workshop in New Zealand. Weta hones in on the development of various species and beasts of […]
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We have reviewed many incredible books about movies here at borg.com. Beginning with Special Effects: The History and Technique and its master class in film study to the book on movie posters The Art of Drew Struzan, to the recent Syfy Channel Book of Sci-fi, we have discussed a variety of the very best books on films and filmmaking, but also […]
