StarHyke: Review

I've recently enountered a little known British Science Fiction comedy called Starhyke. It was made back in 2008/9 and stars Babylon 5's own superb Claudia Christian in the lead role. I'd heard various comments about this show and when i saw it on sale I decided to buy a DVD copy.

I was pleasently surprised, its a funny, witty clever little show with great special effects, stories, acting.  It shamelessly sends up science fiction like a mad thing! For a sci-fi comedy it works. True it wont beat Red Dwarf which always will be king of the sci fi laughs however Starhyke knocks the frankly terrible Hyperdrive rightly into third place. It reminds me a little of the old Captain Kremmen cartoon in the 70's made by the late great Kenny Everett with a contempoary slant. Very madcap, slapstick styled humour.

The show also has a solid ensemble cast with experience in science fiction and comedy. Jeremy Bulloch who played Boba Fett in Star Wars, Suanne Braun, Hathor in Stargate SG1 and featuring special guests in the form of Red Dwarf's own Danny John Jules and the ever awesome Sir Patrick Moore. 

I'm surprised the show hasn't been picked up by one of the many digital channels here in the UK. Starhyke is better than a lot of the comedy crap thats out there today. If you are looking for the very PC styled humour thats about today, truck on. If you like wild, mad, send up sitcom styled humour, this is for you.

The show is made with love and care and it shows. The DVD has all six episodes and a bonus disk packed with bloopers, auditions, makings of etc.

A great first season attempt and deserves a lot more attention and a second season!


Goto: www.starhyke.com
I bought the DVD from here: www.play.com 

Artwork showreel 2010

Here is my video show reel to some of my artwork. It was made back in 2010 and hopefully i will be soon updating it when time permits.
The gorgeous music is composed and performed by my very talented friend Brendan Perkins.
It features artwork used for an as yet unreleased documentary all about the Alien movies fandom.
If you click on the video you can see it on You tube, select 720p HD to see the art and hear the music in all its glory.

Hardwar redesign project update.

I've recently been working on artwork for a remake to the cult 1998 computer game Hardwar. I was already working on a personal art project redesigning the game with modern computing in mind, when the opportunity arose to join a proper concerted effort to bring the game up to modern standards. The project is still in very early stages, no release date set as yet.
In the mean time here is a sketch from of my origonal art project.

Police Cruiser: At least with us you know what the time is, have a safe flight sir...!