Post by k1ttenface on Apr 22, 2019 7:35:08 GMT
I've had two thoughts of articles but want to make sure they are notable enough before doing a proper write-up with sources.
First is a British live action/CGI fusion short film called Inferno. I saw in on TV at about 3am in 2001 or so and it won a few awards after film festival showings. I can't find any evidence of a full copy on the internet, just a few short clips and there wasn't a general DVD release. The IMDB page shows a DVD cover for the movie but the only evidence i can find of it existing is an auction from a few years ago for some signed Emily Booth (an actress in the movie) merchandise which includes a signed copy of the DVD with a note that it was bought from her website (but her site is not longer available and the oldest entry for her site on the Wayback machine dosn't seem to show it for sale).
The other is the English version of the 1993 comic "Dominator". It was written (in English naturally) by British comic artist Tony Luke who worked on Judge Dredd and such at 2000AD but he couldn't get an English publisher interested but inexplicably a Japanese publisher visiting a trade show liked it and picked it up. It was shipped to Japan, translated then released over there but would never get a print of the original English version. From what I can tell the graphic novel publisher Renegade Arts (which Tony Luke co-founded) owns the rights to it but there isn't much more than a passing mention of it in their about us page and it dosn't seem too likely it will be released since Luke died of cancer a few years ago.
The franchise is most notable because in the year 2000 the writer started working on a CGI web series based on it to try and build awareness of the IP enough to get a publisher interested in the comic but was cancelled when he was diagnosed with cancer. A few years later the Sci-Fi channel heard about it and produced a CGI film based on the unfinished web series which ended up being Britain's first ever feature length CGI film (although it was on a £20,000 budget by a few guys on macs so wasn't the greatest).
