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WTF by MattmanReturns	Mar 23rd, 2007 05:25:51 PM
I guess I expected something... else.
Tasty new desktop fodder... by Space oddity	Mar 23rd, 2007 05:26:03 PM
mmmmm.....
ummmm by 1st and only	Mar 23rd, 2007 05:27:13 PM
they're okay i guess...
AWESOME! by ImperialMarchFace	Mar 23rd, 2007 05:27:33 PM
I'm a huge SW fan, obviously. If Chewbacca were running around with Han like that, oh man. And Vader looks bad ass.
What is a steampunk? by fanboy71	Mar 23rd, 2007 05:28:50 PM
And why is is screwing with my childhood?
Ugh...I hate 'steampunk' stuff. by jimmy_009	Mar 23rd, 2007 05:30:01 PM
It was interesting the first time around. It's such a cliche now that there's nothing even remotely interesting about it, and yet people ooh and ahh over some jackball's theiving the idea yet again.
Otomo's Steamboy by playahatersball	Mar 23rd, 2007 05:30:42 PM
Already used this exact concept.
LAME by whatyoufear	Mar 23rd, 2007 05:31:27 PM
i can has that 30 seconds of my life back?
Peter Jackson for JLA! by UltimaRex	Mar 23rd, 2007 05:34:55 PM
This is cool enough I guess... Just.
So am I not a geek... by Somerichs	Mar 23rd, 2007 05:41:13 PM
If i don't have the slightest clue what the frak steampunk is?
pretty fucking cool. by fknjeffoakley	Mar 23rd, 2007 05:43:05 PM
i'd love to see more.
uhhh... by Lando Griffin	Mar 23rd, 2007 05:46:00 PM
what?
playahatersball by jimmy_009	Mar 23rd, 2007 05:49:06 PM
Everyone's used this exact concept. It's what the people who do it think is extremely creative, like no one's ever done -this- before! Except just about everyone has. This 'style' is practically every other animation project when I was in school. Hopefully people will stop running into the ground soon, and find something else to play out.
Sweet Vader by Darth_Baltar	Mar 23rd, 2007 05:50:17 PM
love the 'reimaging"
Cool stuff by CTU Mole	Mar 23rd, 2007 05:55:11 PM
kind of Star Wars meets Wizard of Oz.
Get Dark Horse on the Phone! by SanityKaos	Mar 23rd, 2007 06:21:15 PM
I dig this stuff!...Didn't know what Steampunk was either, but the pictures kinda define the term....I've seen stuff like this before...Someone get Dark Horse on the phone....This would make a great graffic novel!
Darth Meh it is. by JackPumpkinhead	Mar 23rd, 2007 06:36:34 PM
Very meh.
Jimmy_009 by playahatersball	Mar 23rd, 2007 06:47:55 PM
Dude, seriously... Otomo's Steamboy IS the first Star Wars movie retrofitted into a steampunk setting. There is a vader figure, a death star and a crazy old man helping a young boy discover his powers. I'm familiar with the fact that steampunk is an established genre, but Steamboy did the same thing this guy did, only better.
Very cool. How great would it be to see Star Wars by Bronx Cheer	Mar 23rd, 2007 06:57:48 PM
set in the 1870s?
Never seen steampunk... by pdennett316	Mar 23rd, 2007 06:58:16 PM
before, but the Death Star and Vader look really good. Han, Chewie and Jabba look pretty crap though.
Oh that's beautiful by CherryValance	Mar 23rd, 2007 07:05:51 PM
I picked the one with Han and Chewie for my desktop. :D
Jimmy_009 by SanityKaos	Mar 23rd, 2007 07:20:34 PM
Is Steamboy a comic book or an animation? I wanna check it out...If it's anything like you describe
Wrong Person by SanityKaos	Mar 23rd, 2007 07:29:46 PM
I meant Playahatersball
fascinating by Amy Chasing	Mar 23rd, 2007 07:32:24 PM
seriously... fascinating stuff, in a very good way.
@SanityKaos: Steamboy is an anime that was by comedian_x	Mar 23rd, 2007 07:34:20 PM
made a few years ago. There is the film and a manga that was made recently as well. You can can find both on Amazon.
Wow! by avenger147	Mar 23rd, 2007 07:37:18 PM
..
Damn you Michael Bay by MCMLXXVI	Mar 23rd, 2007 07:45:16 PM
Damn you Michael Bay
Comedian X by SanityKaos	Mar 23rd, 2007 08:01:00 PM
Thanks for the info...I'm gonna check it out
episode 0 by reckni	Mar 23rd, 2007 08:02:59 PM
My friend's dealio is pretty awesome: http://www.episode0.com/
small wallpaper by master bitchfist	Mar 23rd, 2007 08:07:57 PM
From the site: "They're all at 1280x960, so you should be able to use them at almost any resolution without stretching." uhhh how about those in the future "nowadays" that have monitors bigger than 15" like say something in the 1600 pixel range?
Excellents stuff! by Proman1984	Mar 23rd, 2007 08:18:39 PM
Thanks for the link, man!
Very cool... by RedwingsHoolihan	Mar 23rd, 2007 08:52:36 PM
I want to see some steampunk ewoks.
What "steampunk" is... by Immortal_Fish	Mar 23rd, 2007 08:52:45 PM
For those of you wondering (and despite the endless, inevitable corrections to come), "steampunk" is anything re-imagined during the steam technology era, ala Jules Verne. For example, the Thief series of games on the PC are "steampunk". If you ever heard the phrase "cyberpunk" used, then you surely catch the drift.
very nice, but by SylarTheCylon	Mar 23rd, 2007 09:40:22 PM
i prefer the original versions. This just seems so forced. Kinda reminded me of the graphics in the old bitmap brothers Amiga/MegaDrive videogame Soldiers of Fortune aka Chaos Engine. If you liked these images you'll probably enjoy those retro 16bit graphics too.
I like the idea of Vader trying to reach Padme by CTU Mole	Mar 23rd, 2007 09:45:09 PM
that would be some dramatic stuff to put in a comic or the tv show.
Cute by superninja	Mar 23rd, 2007 10:16:42 PM
That is all.
how did the Michael Bay joke even start? by SantiagoAtez	Mar 23rd, 2007 10:19:17 PM
I don't remember how this started...only that it has gone on for too long.
nice. check out Memoirs of a Monster: Darth Vader diary by AvengingFist	Mar 23rd, 2007 10:32:53 PM
http://tinyurl.com/c3xqn
Crabman by BadMrWonka	Mar 23rd, 2007 10:56:31 PM
you are SO missing the point...the point is that when he first did it, he got a little attention...and then after a while,it was clear he wouldn't EVEr write anything else,and that was a topic of discussion...then people tried to guess which talkbacker/AICN contributor it was, and that lasted a while...then people sort of began to ignore it...and then the real magic began...HE KEPT FUCKING DOING IT...months and months have gone by, and he has never once missed a talkback, and never typed anything but his signature phrase. it has become a part of AICN. imagine the sheer willpower it takes to keep this up. imagine how many times he's typed it. and never a typo? maybe a script? ant any rate, you've proven, once again, that you can get someone riled up, simply by typing the same random phrase you've typed a hundred times before, or more. he wins. you lose. damn you michael bay, indeed.
MCMLXXVI by SanityKaos	Mar 23rd, 2007 11:15:20 PM
Yeah, someone told me yesterday...I guess MCMLXXVI (cryptic, isn't it) is a big deal around here....He secretly owns the site or something
MCMLXXVI by SanityKaos	Mar 23rd, 2007 11:20:24 PM
Really though...This guy is annoying!!! And drives me crazy!!
You could just ignore him by CTU Mole	Mar 23rd, 2007 11:29:59 PM
He comes in and does the Michael Bay thing and it could end there. But no, you people have to make 20 posts about it.
Remember: by David Lazarus Long	Mar 24th, 2007 12:26:31 AM
It's less annoying to read his post and ignore it than it is to make a separate post about how annoying it is. Here, hit this and watch Steamboy ;) I like Vader. The rest is a bit much. Why is Chewie a mog now? I'm confused. Intriguing, but make Chewie a wookie, not a dogmanthing. Mandogthing. Whatever. Would he bark or...? Nevermind.
Steampunk + Star Wars= by ewokstew	Mar 24th, 2007 12:34:05 AM
"The WIz"
huh? by C_wizard	Mar 24th, 2007 12:46:45 AM
WT fuck? no.
ten minutes? by BradleyStar	Mar 24th, 2007 12:55:28 AM
for three or four drawings?
Those images were disturbing... by J-Dizzle	Mar 24th, 2007 03:29:53 AM
Steampunk? More like steaming pile of shit. LEAVE MY STAR WARS ALONE!
The steampunk Deathstar is going to probe Alderaan by Boondock Devil	Mar 24th, 2007 03:32:16 AM
right up the planety arse. Horrible way to go. In all honestly that's some pretty cool stuff. Just where's the steampunk Boba Fett?
FUCK YOU MCMLXXVI by Seph_J	Mar 24th, 2007 03:39:32 AM
Fuck you MCMLXXVI
Absolutely NO WAY...like mixing STAR WARS & SCOOBY DOO. by JDanielP	Mar 24th, 2007 06:39:58 AM
I... thought... this was going to be something cool, ...perhaps even on the level of that re-edit of Episode One that was much darker in tone (without Jar Jar, etc.) I've long wished I could actually see that darker version, as I would BUY such versions of STAR WARS on dvd, if Lucas made such available. (After all, he could use the cash. Right?) Maybe I haven't searched it out enough. But anyway, yeah, THIS steampunk version is BAD on ANOTHER LEVEL of bad. I've yet to backtrack and read what other's have said here, in the talkbacks, ...but I'm disappointed in Moriarty. Maybe I'll just chalk it up as being something that... he sees beauty in... and I do not. I totally disagree on this one.
Looks fantastic by ELGordo	Mar 24th, 2007 06:47:10 AM
I've got a boner for Steampunk and this is truly great work. I'd love to see a comic or an animated film with this stuff. For those who saw League of Gentlemen then that's what steampunk is.
So Will Smith/Kevin Klines' "Wild Wild West"... by BlueDjinn1	Mar 24th, 2007 07:05:35 AM
...would be considered a disasterous example of steampunk gone wrong, I take it?
Um, Nope by PotSmokinAlien	Mar 24th, 2007 08:14:32 AM
the pencil fantasy drawings i did in high school were pretty good too but they were original and not some fanfiction mashup of two things i happen to like. like, there is a reason i didn't draw pictures of the cast of chrono trigger encountering dream of the endless while travelling through space on something i call Her Majesty's Velocicycle Entrepreisse....... and if i had i would have been damn sure they never wound up on a nationally trafficked internet site
Cynics by beelkay	Mar 24th, 2007 08:48:48 AM
Why are there so many cynics on AICN.com? I thought that looked pretty cool. The only steampunk stuff I've seen is "Steamboy," but just because something is derived from something else doesn't mean it isn't interesting and innovative, especially to those who haven't experienced something like it before. How many artists have combined steampunk and Star Wars?
The idea might be fine, but this isn't very inspiring. by JDanielP	Mar 24th, 2007 09:10:39 AM
I suppose it all comes down to interpretation. But from a design perspective, STAR WARS (prequels included) was done quite well by people at ILM. There's just not much room for improvement. But hey, some people like BOTH Coke and Pepsi. I do. But this just seems a little... RC Cola. Know what I mean?
TOO SOON!!! by Pageiv	Mar 24th, 2007 09:23:42 AM
Hey, lay off ppl using outdated subject lines: BTW: George Lucas Raped my Childhood.
I like the WWII medals on Vader by CTU Mole	Mar 24th, 2007 09:53:09 AM
and the jaunty neckerchief thing.
Actually, come to think of it by David Lazarus Long	Mar 24th, 2007 10:39:32 AM
"Last Exile" is a much better steampunk series than "Steamboy", but Steamboy is more popular because it's a movie that was released in theaters, not a series. And the CGI in LE is kinda bad. But they don't use it TOO much. Heh. Jaunty.
Interesting Interpretation by Bobo_Vision	Mar 24th, 2007 10:47:08 AM
But a little underwhelming. Only 4 pictures, and the Death Star wasn't great...but I liked the other 3.
But the question is.... by Johnno	Mar 24th, 2007 11:25:01 AM
Can steam power operate in Space??? And we need more Steamboy!!! They oughta make a TV series if not another film...
Somewhere . . . by jaycieboy	Mar 24th, 2007 11:33:10 AM
Mikey Bay is laughing with glee.
steampunk=cool starwars=cool by TiNSeLToWN TeRRoR	Mar 24th, 2007 11:36:27 AM
together=ok,nothing special.
I dunno... by beckuary	Mar 24th, 2007 01:32:50 PM
I kinda like these. It's well-drawn, it's interesting, I'd say it's even beautiful. It's not trying to be a better or even incredibly innovative thing, just someone who wanted to try something he loved in a different style. I like it. It's not going to inspire George Lucas to issue a Steampunk version of the originals (we hope), but it's still got merit.
Avenge by bythehairofsanjaya	Mar 24th, 2007 01:51:17 PM
By the Hair of Sanjaya you will be avenged Michael Bay.
Vader's a little too General Grievous here... by tucson	Mar 24th, 2007 02:27:20 PM
I do like Jabba; he's a little less disgusting (and Bib Fortuna's pretty cool)>
MCMLXXVI raped my talkback by spud mcspud	Mar 24th, 2007 04:05:06 PM
But at least he ain't George Lucas. That fucker.
God, what a bunch of HATERS by Daddylonghead	Mar 24th, 2007 04:13:09 PM
if you're not bitching because this person's extremely cool artwork is not to your personal taste, you're bitching because he didn't provide you with a desktop image the right size for your monitor. Dude sometimes I hate talkbackers.
Very Awesome, Drew... by Bones	Mar 24th, 2007 04:30:57 PM
Thanks!
I thought it rocked by spud mcspud	Mar 24th, 2007 04:36:42 PM
Fantastic. Reimagination is the soul of successful reinvention. The images rock. And where's the Falcon? Dark Horse, get this commissioned as a GN PRONTO!!!
You Know... Youre Right by PotSmokinAlien	Mar 24th, 2007 05:02:55 PM
why be negative, after all in what other forum should a nerds imagination be encouraged to run free than the aint it cool. keep drawing dude or dudette-- heres hoping we will be seeing your interpretation of a steampunk "chronicles of riddick" or "alien" in the near future
Steampunk "Alien" by spud mcspud	Mar 24th, 2007 06:02:53 PM
I thought it already was! Well, the first one anyway ;D
more like SteamJUNK!! by Frank Duckett	Mar 24th, 2007 07:15:42 PM
HAHAHA!! uhh.... but seriously, they're ugly.
Just looked up Steamboy. Is it any good?S by Teamwak	Mar 24th, 2007 07:43:39 PM
Sounds intersting! Not really into Manga but did watch Akira many years ago and loved it. And guess what, this is by the same guy!! So seriously, is it any good?
maybe they should have hired this guy... by datachasm	Mar 24th, 2007 09:45:55 PM
instead of that asshole who thinks everything in the star wars universe should look like cute little dogs.
Steampunk is the next Cyberpunk is the next... by DOGSOUP	Mar 24th, 2007 09:50:27 PM
Postcyberpunk is the next Goth is the next Gothpunk is the next Steamgoth is the next Zombipunk is the next Electroclash is the next Cyberclash is the next Zombigoth until it ends at Pirates. It always ends at pirates....until Piratepunk is the next Steampirate is the next........
This was certainly overhyped. by Crangdo	Mar 24th, 2007 10:51:30 PM
I was expecting something cooler than cool and got some blah pictures instead. Whatever. At least Moriarty got a boner out of it.
How are these images cool? by Tommy the Cat	Mar 25th, 2007 01:17:55 AM
Someone please explain this to me.
This shit is new to me by AlwaysThere	Mar 25th, 2007 02:04:29 AM
I love it.
here, let me explain.... by therightclique	Mar 25th, 2007 03:42:46 AM
steampunk is basically when you convert steam into a waveform signal which can play one of three classic punk tunes which are 1.) Holiday In Cambodia 2.) I Want To Conquer The World and 3.)Mmm Bop.... its basically like optical audio, except instead of a fiber optic cable, it uses steam. quite simple actually. They're to make it compatible with iTunes. It's going to be sweet. you can have boiling hot steam melting your face all while listening to three of the greatest songs ever recorded!!!333
also, by therightclique	Mar 25th, 2007 03:45:07 AM
NOFX drives a steam-powered winged tourbus/airship. steampunk. it makes perfect sense.
Um by NathanDetroits	Mar 25th, 2007 09:52:30 AM
If any of you actually had the attention span to read, the artist admits on his page that there is no originality to any of what he did, so you guys pointing out the unoriginality of his work shows you lack the ability to read more than 2 words of text in any given passage. Shameful.
The Han Solo and Chewie one looks really cool by Clonetrooper	Mar 25th, 2007 10:11:12 AM
If you pretend that they aren't supposed to be Han Solo and Chewbacca. I just think they look like two pretty cool characters. They just aren't Han and Chewie. Cause Chewie's not a dog. He's a wookie. And wookie's don't wear hats.
"He boasts that of all the men he's shot, not... by Cannabis Holocaust 69	Mar 25th, 2007 01:12:36 PM
a single one was able to shoot first" LMAO That's awesome.
loved it... by lynxpro	Mar 25th, 2007 02:36:53 PM
Especially the Han Solo version, not to mention Jabba and Bib Fortuna with the turban. If you want animated steampunk, check out "The Amazing Screw-On Head". People often refer to the material known as "steampunk" as [referencing Jules Verne] "Verne-ish" or "Verne-esque", kinda like how anime used to be referred to as "Japanimation" back in the 80s by many. You can find other traces - aside from obvious ones - of steampunk in scifi genre in stuff like Max Headroom or even the 1996 Doctor Who tv movie. Actually, check that out for the most in non-Verne material. The TARDIS Console Room is fully steampunk plus gothic.
I'm all for interesting reimaginings... by mcb650	Mar 25th, 2007 08:30:08 PM
...but this one sucks. Not my cup of tea. I was excited until I saw "Steampunk."
I love steampunk, love these mages by Doctor_Sin	Mar 25th, 2007 08:54:25 PM
Where's the Falcon as a dirigible?

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