Some cool pre-production art from HEAVY METAL 2

THese look great! If you want to see a really cool book by the artist, Simon Bisley, check out DC's BATMAN-JUDGE DREDD which came out about 6 years ago. I actually went to Kevin Eastman's gallery when the book came out, & he had all the original pages on display! If they wanted to simulate the look of Bisley's painting style in the movie, they could map his painted textures onto 3D animated characters. Hmmm.

A bit slow on this one Harry. The FAKK2 book, stuffed wuth concept paintings and sketches by Bisley and short story descriptions by Kevin Eastman, hit the shelves several months ago. Great artwork but the story seems a little vauge though, it's based on the comic collection Melting Pot, by Bisley and Eastman.

dis gunna be phat yo.

First off, Merry Christmas, everybody! I love the pictures. The picture of Julie is sexist as hell, but it's still cool. I love the biomechanical implants on evryones arms. The Shadow Warriors look especailly menacing. A bit derivative, but still creepy. The movie looks pretty fun, and very european. I think this will be a pretty big event for animation.

Damn, now I'm getting excited about this project. With the music being such a major part of the first film, I wonder what the soundtrack will be like.

This movie will kick ass! I can't wait. I'm still want to get the first Heavy Metal on a DVD (Uncut and Unedited w/ THX.)

So as I'm looking at these pics, I think to myself has anyone told Simon Bisley he's getting ripped off? They better watch out, Lobo may have to rip these bastaches balls off!

OK,OK, my bad! The work is by Simon B. So it's late and I'm a little slow. But Lobo will still wipe his ass with these characters!

Ah, Lobo...the very first white trash anthem comic book hero. Grand daddy of other one dimensional characters like Spawn and Savage Dragon, along with most of the Image family. Anyhow, from what I'm heard, F.A.K.K. 2 is less of a "Heavy Metal 2" and more a feature produced by Heavy Metal Magazine. The character designs are cool looking, but yes, a bit derivative. See: Fire and Ice. This movie does definitely not need CGI of any sort, whether it's texture mapping or and 3D model bullshit. As with the detail thing, ever seen Akira?

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YES!! Its about damn time they did a sequel, but unfortunatly, many people like myself will be expecting that green orb to come roaring back and the flying bird/dragon and the chick from the first movie. As for detail, yeah they could do it if they REALLY wanted to...however MOST animated films(excluding Akira) REALLY water down the detail level into a cartoony look (see Spawn). Which isnt "bad" art, its just not Bisley art...Cam Kennedy's art (from Judge Dredd) would be easy to adapt for animation... :) I'm stoked, now I gotta hunt down "Melting Pot" hehehe....

I can not wait for this movie to hit the big screen! The art of Bisley and the breasts of Julie Strain! What more could you ask for? Kevin Eastman is a GoD for bringing all this talent together. Oh yeah, I also saw on http://www.ritual.com that they are making a 3D action game for the PC. That's the company that made the hit game SiN, so it should be freakin awesome! I can't wait for both of 'em!!

I don't know if Harrys is aware, but F.A.K.K.2 is c movie version of a stories that have been going on in the Heavy Hetal comic for a while. These are obviously Simon Bisley's work, and judging by the date on the first one (1996) odds are theis is just ancient stuff from some F.A.K.K.2 trading card set or art from in the comic. wasn't the giant "BIZ 96" kind of a giveaway?