Tuesday, 12 August 2008
And We're Back
Thursday, 10 July 2008
Huge Mike Mignola Interview
Wednesday, 9 July 2008
Q&A With Double Twenty
Thanks again, Matt, Tania and all of Double Twenty!
Two Days To Go!
Any Other Brits Out There?
Monday, 7 July 2008
See Anna Walton & Luke Goss Transform Into Nuala & Nuada
Sunday, 6 July 2008
Lexi!!
GDT found Lexi!!
Friday, 4 July 2008
Even More Interviews
Hellboy Goes Viral Crazy
Chuck Vs. Hellboy (Round 2)
Hellboy Goes Inside The Actors Studio Again
Hellboy's PSA
Hellboy Meets The Ghost Hunters
Hellboy's Audition
Interviews & Comic Books
Wednesday, 2 July 2008
Hellboy Vs. The Gladiators!
And for those of you in or near Austin, here are the details on the Fantastic Fest being presented in association with AICN, if I had the chance I'd love to spend the week at this event - and to top it all off they're holding a free screening of HB2 with Guillermo, Mike and Doug all in attendance. Doesn't get much better than that.
AICN Are Giving Away Tickets To A Preview Screening In Chicago!
I'll keep you posted on details for the Austin screening that he mentions too, since the one they held for The Incredible Hulk was goddamn amazing.
CBR Review HB2
You'll also find 7 clips from the movie over at www.shocktillyoudrop.com.
9 days to go!
Tuesday, 1 July 2008
Red Goes Inside The Actors Studio
Newsarama Review HB2
Monday, 30 June 2008
RIP Michael Turner
His art inspired me, some guy who never even really appreciated art in the first place (and in fact had a negative view of the whole thing after seeing all of that Tracy Emin and Damian Hirst crap, plus going through a ridiculous relationship with a 'fine art' student now ex-girlfriend), to pick up a pencil and actually fall in love with the possibilities it provides.
JimmyO Of JoBlo Visits Spectral Motion
Moriarty Reviews Hellboy 2
Johann & Chuck Vs. Red!
JoBlo Tooth Fairy Clip
Sunday, 29 June 2008
This Just In: Hellboy 2 Is AMAZING*
And Devin over at CHUD gives it an 8.5 out of 10 with yet another stellar review.
I'd like to make a little disclaimer here - you'll notice that I haven't yet posted any reviews that are less than fantastic, because the fact is that as of yet there are none. I'm actively and constantly scanning the internet, posting literally everything I find on the movie - meaning if I should happen to find any negative reviews or reactions then I'll share them on here with all of you but, on the basis of what we've seen so far, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for one.
Also, this is the 100th post! Drinks are on the house!
*note the reference to a legendary episode of The Simpsons - 10 points to anyone who can name either the episode or what was being referred to as 'AMAZING'.
Saturday, 28 June 2008
HB In HD! New Trailer!
Less than two weeks now!
Friday, 27 June 2008
IGN Meet Wink
The Cat Lady Caught Red Handed!
Thursday, 26 June 2008
Empire Weighs In With Their 'Reaction'
I started this blog to keep track of the game and the marketing, but with early critical buzz as good as this, I'm updating that mission statement to include coverage and reviews like these.
Empire Goes To The HB2 Set
Not long to go now people!
The Lost Ring
If anyone's reading this in London, come to the event on Sunday and I'll see you there!
Also, this is fun (and liable to cause explosions of happiness in anyone who A: plays video games B: grew up in the 80's or C: all of the above):
Tuesday, 24 June 2008
Best Hellboy E-Goodie EVER
NOW you can play with THIS!
Monday, 23 June 2008
Mycroft & Masks
Saturday, 21 June 2008
Nuada Bio & More
Friday, 20 June 2008
IGN Go Inside The HB2 Editing Suite With GDT
More Goodness
Troll Market Door
Francisco Ruiz Velasco: Only magical beings have access to the Troll Market, which has been hidden from human eyes for centuries. This is the door that leads to the market. It's like a huge safe mechanism that only few know how to open.
Originally, this door was conceived to be inside an underwater chamber that led to the Golden Army chamber. Later on, Del Toro decided to create a variation of the door for the Troll Market.
Glasses Prototype
{Francisco} This was designed by Pablito Angeles based on Guillermo’s sketches. It’s a device that makes it possible to look through magical spells and reveal hidden things of the fairy world.
GDT: Fairies use a "glamour" effect to hide themselves so the optical device removes that effect and shows the "true" nature of things. For the geeks, this is a riff on several classic pulp fantasy stories that use similar devices.
Thursday, 19 June 2008
The Notebook (the one about Hellboy, not the one about Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams and some old people)
New Goodies!
Enjoy!
(edit: I haven't learnt enough about html to be able to switch autoplay off on the trailer, so you're gonna have to go down there and pause the damn thing if you wanna watch the Creature video... sorry!)
Prince Nuada's Spear
Francisco Ruiz Velasco: This drawing is an early version of the Prince's spear, created by Pablo Angeles. The main idea was for the spear to be a kind of telescopic device, so when it is short it can be used as a double-bladed sword and then extend to a spear.
All the weapons of the Elf royalty are richly decorated. We were trying to stay away from Celtic motifs and create our own patterns. In the end we moved the design toward more Oriental and Islamic ornamentation.
Council2
GDT: This is a sketch by Francisco Ruiz Velasco but it is created around a real existing location. Like in PANS LABYRINTH I decided to go for a crepuscular, warm palette in the Fantasy realm (reds jiving with Hellboy) and leave the real world in blues, greens and greys. I did a quick sketch of the "Throne" that was part of a boiler and asked Francisco to "echo" a halo behind the king's head, which we introduce in the PROLOGUE. As we scouted locations we found a locomotive cemetery / repair yard and photographed the boiler part of some old engines and lined those up on the walls to create a "hallway" feel. Incongruously, I wanted gold petals to be falling from above- a magical, crazy touch.
Monday, 16 June 2008
Huge Interview With Ron, Doug and Luke at SHH!
Sunday, 15 June 2008
Hall Of Fame & Winners!
(at the moment this post will be incredibly sketchy until I can research who actually broke each code, any help is appreciated)
Sweeps winners (premiere):
Sweeps winners (posters): OogieBoogie & bfunk00
Code Breakers:
Code 1: Didn't need to be broken. Anyone with eyes could figure it out.
Code 2:
Code 3: As far as I know, this was all on Pikachuchu.
Code 4: Jason S let me know - I don't know if he was first or not.
Code 5: Padraic & Mycroft
Code 6: Laurabelle & Peshmode, and Alison (who was on the right track, whether she knew it or not).
Code 7: Truffula
Code 8: I'm gonna say liam, since he pointed out the frame as soon as we got that video.
Code 9: Me! (although I'm open to contests against this).
Code 10: Zero
Thursday, 12 June 2008
TSD Credits
Wednesday, 11 June 2008
Hellbaby's Home From The Prologue
Love The Game, Love The Players
Monday, 9 June 2008
Guys! Grab One Of These! There's Only 20!
Go go go!
Also, it's nice to hear that, although they're not allowed to post the review yet, that they speak favourably about the film. Sounds like GDT is onto another winner!
Saturday, 7 June 2008
Shameless Plug
Anyway, hope you like it!
HETFET Unmask Big Red!
HELLBOY - DEVIL MAN UNMASKED!
Calls have been pouring in to the HETFET HOTLINE, confirming the existence of the red-skinned mystery creature whose recent sightings have put the nation on high alert. Citing a major breakthrough in the so-called “Devil Man” investigation, credible sources claim to have discovered his true identity. His name is apparently Hellboy, although it has been impossible to get confirmation of this from the so called “research and defense agents” who have suddenly stepped in to control the situation.
While it is still not clear exactly what a Hellboy is, HETFET has confirmed that he (or it) has been seen in conjunction with a large number of troll sightings around the globe. Hellboy’s intention is still unknown but those that have witnessed him in action report that he is often followed by a trail of destruction. The Hellboy sightings have increased over the last month and seem to be on the rise.
We would like to thank those brave enough to call the HETFET Hotline - your eye witness accounts have made it possible for us to better understand creature migration patterns as well as this strange Hellboy phenomenon. Although the Hellboy is still at large and somewhat volatile, we have enough evidence to know that he doesn’t seem to pose a threat unless antagonized.
As far as HETFET is concerned, Hellboy is one more creature that deserves ethical treatment and fair consideration from humanity.
Friday, 6 June 2008
I Take ONE Night Off...
011101000110100001100101001000000111001101110101011011
010000110100001010
the sum
01100001001000000110011001101001011011100110000101101100
a final
01110010011001010110010001110101011000110111010001101001
0110111101101110
reduction
01101111011001100010000001110000011000010111001
00111010001110011
of parts
01111001011011110111010100100000011010000110000101110110011
00101001000000111010001101000011001010010000001
1010110110010101111001
you have the key
011100110111010001100001011000110110101100100000011101000110
100001100101001000000110001101101111011001000110010101110011
stack the codes
I couldn't really cut the evening short, but I was cursing the heavens that the game was obviously kicking off in my absence...
So, to catch up.
The last two Panatrog documents are up, you'll find them in the post in the right hand column. There's also a new video on the site, showing some Men In Black type dude 'cleaning' Lexi's room.
The Twitters referred to EVERY PREVIOUS CODE. If you take the sum of every first digit, then every second, and finally every third, then add the digits in each result (so the first sum is 203, which boils down to 2+3= 5), you get 5-1-3.
This'll then lead you to another puzzle, for which you'll need the Rune Chart (again, this is in the right hand column). You want to 'UNLOCKHBII'. Then you'll be treated to a little congratulatory message, and given the link to the sweeps.
You'll also get this, which is VERY cool (and thanks to 'anonymous' for uploading it!):
Find more videos like this on The Spill.com Movie Community
I'm still trawling through other bits and pieces to see if I've missed anything (there are some numbers on the bottom left corner of the final Panatrog document that interest me for example), I suspect we haven't seen the last of Lexi (or at least I hope not) - but very well done all of you guys, it's been a brilliant ride and I wish all of the US players the best of luck in the draw!
Thursday, 5 June 2008
This Is What Red's Up Against
Golden Army Chamber Concept Art Francisco Ruiz Velasco: This chamber is where the Golden Army lays dormant, waiting for a new wearer of the crown to command them. Del Toro wanted a huge chamber, stadium-like, with hundreds and hundreds of golden eggs. Originally, the idea for this chamber was to be underwater. The huge gears are the mechanisms that pump the water out of the chamber. Guillermo del Toro: The original script for the film was much more ambitious - I wanted a series of underwater adventures that led to the Golden Army Chamber. At the end of the day, mostly due to budget, the idea changed. But the basics remained: I wanted the "folded" golden soldiers to be stored like eggs. The egg was an important motif in Elf/Goblin technology in the movie (see "Magic Bean Grenade") and as a basic shape it was easy to read and gave a clear view of the number of soldiers within the chamber: "Seventy times seventy soldiers".
Some Lucky Devils Have Seen 10 Minutes Of The Movie
Wednesday, 4 June 2008
It's All Kicking Off
Running those three binary codes through the tool that thebruce pointed out to us the last time QuestShaun posted a video (the tool is here) gives you the following:
Title: manning
1st Line: stop them
2nd Line: find the photo
UPDATED
This post is gonna be a little messy, since it's all happening right now.
So 'find the photo' refers to this Photobucket account, with lots more base64 code hidden and jumbled up (thanks to djchristensen at HETFET for finding this). This'll give you:
d 2U gbX VzdC BpbnR lcmNlc HQgdGhl IGNyb3du
which translates to 'we must intercept the crown'.
You'll also find that QuestShaun has a Twitter account, and so does Manning866. Manning866 leads to a phone number (866-MAN-NING I believe, I dialled it, and the code you'll need is the 8th code, but I can't get any further since I'm UK based and therefore my number is longer than 10 digits - it's all on you lot!)
As if that wasn't enough, as I have been writing this, QuestShaun has Twittered twice with two more base64 codes:
1: cmUtdmlldw
2: cmUtY29kZQ
which translate to 're-view' and 're-code'. Sounds like a push to me.
THIS JUST IN!
The code is there, in the base64 code! (take the numbers from the photo and the twitter updates... that's all I'm saying).
YET ANOTHER UPDATE:
QuestShaun twittered ' YSBsaXRlcmFsIHBlcnNwZWN0aXZl' 'dGhlIHBob3RvIGlzIGtleQ' and 'YSBiYXNpYyByZXNwb25zZQ', which translates to 'a literal perspective' 'the photo is key' and 'a basic response'...
REALLY LATE UPDATE (on account of I need sleep occasionally)
More twitters from QuestShaun:
'01110100011010000110010100100000 011100110111010101101101' and
'01101111011001100010000001110000 01100001011100100111010001110011'
in binary translates to 'the sum' and 'of parts'
There was also this video from QuestShaun:
With the base64 'YmxhY2t3b29k' which translates to 'blackwood'.
Phew.
OK, so that seems to be everything. Except maybe this, a photobucket account belonging to lexivision that we need a password to access. I'm not sure if this is part of the game or not (and loads of you guys have already tried a bunch of passwords with no luck), but might be worth keeping an eye on.
New Link
Anyway, anyone who's done a little bit of digging re: the terms and conditions of the prize for this game knows that Universal provided a link to the sweepstakes page for those of you that don't want to see the game through. Since it's only active for around a week, I've posted the link in the right hand column.
I massively encourage people who are following the game to NOT 'skip to the end' and follow it, I'm more posting this for completions sake and as proof that new developments are imminently inbound.
Sunday, 1 June 2008
The Beginning Of The End?
Extra! Extra! Augustine Is Down For The Count! Read All About It!
AUGUSTINE CONVICTED OF TROLL CRUELTY
The ongoing war for troll rights takes another step forward, at the expense of Augustine Pharmaceuticals, the makers of the immensely anticipated anti-aging medication Uthyntrol. In what is surely a landmark victory, Augustine was convicted on seven counts of felony cruelty for using troll marrow as the “secret ingredient” in their new line of anti-aging products. In his closing statement, a notable District Judge thanked the organization known as HETFET for their vigilance, and admonished the entire Board of Augustine Pharmaceuticals for their “willful and unrepentant disregard for life–troll or otherwise”, ordering them to immediately cease production and destroy all inventory containing troll-based components.
With the surprising conviction on multiple counts, it was clear that the jury was unwilling to accept the defense’s argument that trolls are not entitled to the same rights as people or even animals. Throughout the trial, Augustine’s Defense Attorney contended that the United States constitution does not guarantee trolls’ rights. Legal analysts, meanwhile, have already begun to speculate what this will mean to the many other companies that, like Augustine, utilize questionable techniques and other allegedly inhumane techniques to gather and extract valuable organs and fluids from these special creatures.
It seems Augustine also had a hand in illegal pixie-farming operations around the globe, designed to take advantage of recent pixie dust demand, seemingly brought about by our own government. Controversy continues to swirl around this issue but AP seems to be at the center of it, according to our very own M. Herring.
At the post-verdict press conference, State District Attorney Olan said that the defense vastly underestimated the jury’s compassion for all living creatures. “Trolls and other of these so-called mystical beings are largely misunderstood and often feared, and the fact that the jury largely ignored the defense’s attempts to vilify and demonize them showed a remarkable empathy that made me proud to say I’m a human being!” said a tearful Olan.
In a separate civil case, the company has also been accused of concealing negative side-effects of Uthyntrol, including excessive hair growth, sun sensitivity, and, in some extremely rare cases, uncontrollable attraction to shiny objects.
Friday, 30 May 2008
You've All Seen This Already
Tell Me This Isn't Awesome
Those Panatrog Documents (And The New Cat Lady One)
Thursday, 29 May 2008
New Panatrog Document - 'Original Pact'
Oooooo... Spooky! (Quest Shaun Solved)
WEIRD! I reckon it's the troll market (as I'm sure a lot of other people do). Stranger still, does this mean anything?
ZGVsaXZlciB0aGlzIG1lc3NhZ2U
Written in the video description box, is it really just random letters/numbers or is it a code?
UPDATED - OK, so thebruce's kung fu is way better than mine. Use this tool to translate the text, and then ask yourself one question: to who? (I just sent Lexi a message about it, maybe it'll spark something off? Who knows...)
And here I've got (unrelated to the game mind you) another YouTube video featuring interviews with a bunch of the key players responsible for HB2:
8th Code Active (And Solved)!
We get another creature to have a look at, another 'hidden' rune (C) and, most interestingly, a message written in runes that appear one at a time. For those who want to work it out, I'm about to show the translation so SPOILERS on.
Still here? Look away if you don't want to be!
The runes read 'QUEST SHAUN'. What this means, I don't know, I just figured it out and haven't yet given a lot of thought as to what it applies to - my first thought is that it's somehow meant to fit in with the other word we've been getting a letter at a time (i.e. the one that's obviously gonna spell UNLOCK). Maybe we're supposed to 'unlock shaun quest'?
Stay tuned for more.
UPDATED - A big thanks to the HETFETters who dropped me a line about this! I managed to catch this one just as it went live so was eagerly chipping away at the puzzle before I had a chance to see that you guys had told me about it. And a huge well done to all of you too, after checking HETFET I see that a few of you beat me to it by about half an hour :)
UPDATED AGAIN! Lilitu over at HETFET spotted some numbers in the top right of the latest TSD reward: 837243 (you have to look pretty carefully, I'm glad someone's got eagle eyes). Maybe it'll come in handy, who knows?
Wednesday, 28 May 2008
Lexi 's 3 Weird Things
Who sent you?
Tuesday, 27 May 2008
Panatrog Update & Lexi's On Twitter
Also, a couple of people over at HETFET were sent email invitations by Lexi to join and follow her on Twitter. I didn't get the invite but, not wanting to be left out, I went and signed up anyway. This way we'll get regular updates as to what Lexi's doing, and as such it's a good idea for everyone to do it. Her username is lexilloyd.
dutchfelines Strikes Again!
(This comes from the video description box)
I am no longer the Only One.
WARNING: What is our government up to. This deals with very strange and disturbing subject matter - it may shock you. However this is not my reason for posting it. I have come across this from sources that I am not allowed to disclose. This movie is about just what the title states, that is all I can say. Strange bizarre footage that seems to delve into the unexplained. This movie shows clips that are REAL. You of course may judge for yourself. I posted this for the people who dare to seek the truth as I do, you know who you are, the open minded folk. I also posted it to show things that are happening around you that you dont know about. Now and in the past. Knowing, understanding, and searching truth is the reason I have taken great risk to show you this.
NOTE to all: I have not filmed these videos myself. I am just exposing the truth and what is real.
Monday, 26 May 2008
(Eliza)Bethmoora
This is the picture that was posted on her profile, the one which gave us half of the code:
You have to tinker around with the colours in Photoshop (you can just make it out if you only have Paint) to see the code clearly.
In honour of Ms. Moora, here's her namesake:
Bethmoora is a dead city, covered in ashes, with a bright crimson building at its core. In designing all the magical families in the film, I demanded that we all stay away from any Celtic motifs or that we "riff" them together with other influences. We used Oriental art as an inspiration, as well as the Middle and Far East, using Japanese armor and Islamic glyphs among other things, as inspiration. Bethmoora had to have that Middle East flavor. That, and my admiration for the European comic book artist Nicolas De Crecy, guided this design.
Mike Mignola took a whack at it, Wayne Barlowe, Pablo Angeles, and Francisco Ruiz Velasco took a whack at it, and so did everybody else at the office, including myself (you don't wanna see that!) but Deak's painting is the one that came closest to it. This is only a taste - wait for the final...
And this. Because it's cool.
7th Code - One That Works!
Apparently Elizabeth Moora has a Facebook profile (I'll post a link to the profile or picture when she confirms my pending friend request), where she posted a picture with the numbers:
101
Another picture, found on the hetfet.org gallery had the numbers:
037
Then, all you have to do (I say 'all you have to do', only I probably wouldn't have thought of it...) is stack the numbers on top of each like so:
101
037
and then read them vertically, so you get 10-3-17. Hey presto, the 7th (working!) code. We have the 4th rune now also, which is 'O'. Well done guys!
Issues With The 7th Code
However, for whatever reason, the code doesn't work now (although inputting any of the other codes will make the 7th light fully illuminated). Whether this is because of a glitch or because the code was only supposed to open for a limited number of people (I doubt this is the case, as there hopefully would have been something to indicate as much) I don't know, and until I hear any new developments on the issue I won't be posting information on the rewards since at the minute I feel they could be considered game spoilers, or a breach of the game.
Saturday, 24 May 2008
Meet Wink
Updated Rune Chart (UPDATED AGAIN)
I've just confirmed that the third rune in the Panatrog video is 'V' (I don't know about the others, but I was sent the alphabet in the mail for being in the top 10 of webmasters) - the chart is updated with it, and it means that the book says 'PEVEAL TRAP'. This only strengthens my theory that it's a typo, and is supposed to say 'REVEAL TRAP'. Of course, it might not be a typo, and instead it's an anagram. I couldn't get anything out of it if it is.
Whether this means anything is yet to be seen...
Friday, 23 May 2008
Panatrog Vid & The 7th Light
Anyway, thanks to Jason and Tasha for dropping me an email about both of these.
First up, we have a new Panatrog video:
There's numbers all over that, but apparently none of them work (according to the guys on the HETFET forums) yet. The big thing for me was the book printed with a few runes, the translation goes as:
PE_EAL TRAP - the third letter is a rune we haven't come across before, but there are only six of those so the word can only be either:
PEFEAL
PEJEAL
PEQEAL
PEVEAL
PEXEAL
or PEZEAL
None of which particularly make sense. It could be a rune typo and it's supposed to say 'REVEAL', but it seems like they'd be more careful than that.
I noticed something else in the video, which I'm sure isn't a big deal, but those headset goggle things could be early designs of the goggles Hellboy and Abe are wearing in the trailer when they come across the cat lady (when Hellboy delivers the soon to be immortal line 'Give it up ugly, I can see ya'.)
TSD has it's 7th light half-lit, so the next code is now out there somewhere (or inbound very soon) - so people (myself included) are poring over the video and previous clues to find that code.
Stay tuned.
p.s. I'm sure many people have done this already, but I've dropped Lexi a message with a link to the vid, hopefully there'll be a response.
Hellboy Board Game (Well, A Sketch Of A Part Of One)
Mignola Devil (Hellboy Icon, Death's House)
Guillermo del Toro: Inside the Angel of Death lair - laid out in a fresco on the floor - there is a game board representing Hellboy's origin and destiny. Mike Mignola based his designs for this on old Zodiac illustrations. This particular one shows Hellboy in his "Apocalyptic" incarnation at the end of days.
aSmarmyYeti - Up To No Good?
On Lexi's new video, check out the comments section. The only one she replies to is aSmarmyYeti, who asks an inappropriate question. He/she/it has done this before, so it's worth keeping an eye on aSmarmyYeti.
Thursday, 22 May 2008
It's Been A Slow Couple Of Days...
And then there's this picture, just cos I like seeing Liz and Red together:
Tuesday, 20 May 2008
New dutchfelines Video! Panatrog Training Film!
Also, I spotted TWO suspect numbers in there: 411811 & 7.11.71 - but since the 7th code isn't active yet, I guess we have to wait a little while before we know if they work or not.
(The following text comes from the video's description on YouTube)
WARNING: This is a movie that deals with a very strange and disturbing subject matter - it may shock you. However this is not my reason for posting it. I have come across this movie from sources that I am not allowed to disclose. This movie is about just what the title states, that is all I can say. It's strange bizarre footage that seems to delve into the unexplained. This movie shows clips that are REAL. You of course may judge for yourself. I posted this for the people who dare to seek the truth as I do, you know who you are, the open minded folk. I also posted it to show things that are happening around you that you dont know about. Now and in the past. Knowing, understanding, and searching truth is the reason I have taken great risk to show you this.
NOTE to all: I have not filmed these videos myself. I am just exposing the truth and what is real.
The New Panatrog Documents UPDATED
Sketch-A-Palooza
Street Musician {Francisco} This is one of Wayne Barlowe's sketches. It is a creature for the Troll Market. GDT: Each artist was free to bring forth as many sketches of creatures as they wanted. The only condition was to veer away from "movie monsters" and make the creatures more surreal and exotic, reference things other than film: Engravings from the Middle Ages, Hieronymus Bosch, The Arabian Tales, etc, etc Barlowe had the best batting average... 8 out of 10 of his designs made it to the screen. But we treated these creatures like extras. We SELDOM, if ever showcased them- I felt this was crucial to treat the market like you would any other location... to make it real...
And then there's this - not really relevant to anything going on in the game at the minute, but who doesn't love the Big Baby?