“Paper Rovers….” sang Marie Osmond once, as if she knew one day you would be able to print off and make your very own Lunar Rover from MOON. No surprise though as she did have the nickname ‘Nostradamus’ within the Osmond family.
Thanks to Martin Sänger for sharing. Get yours from his site and have a look at the other Sci-Fi related paper craft…I said paper… oh suit yerself 
Rachel van der Meer got in touch with MOON Director Duncan Jones and Concept Artist & VFX Supervisor Gavin Rothery recently to let them know that along with fellow students at the NHTV In Breda, Netherlands, she had built a virtual MOON base. A MOON base that can be entered, walked around, and interacted with. Rachel kindly took the time to provide a LOT more detail (and make me jealous that she got to walk around it using an Oculus Rift Virtual Reality headset)… Continue reading
The Giant Screen in Birmingham, UK have been holding a poll over the last few days over on Twitter as part of their build up to the release of the highly anticipated science fiction thriller Gravity. The poll asked those who took part to vote for their favourite Sci-Fi classics from a selection of 12, with the top three to be screened the week before Gravity opens.
We are very proud to announce that Duncan Jones’ award winning 2009 feature film debut MOON starring Sam Rockwell topped the vote and will be screened at The Giant Screen on Wednesday the 6th November at 19:30. Full poll results here.
To win a pair of tickets answer this question:
How wide is The Giant Screen?
Answer, name and delivery address for tickets please to unklerupert@manmademovies.co.uk
Competition closes next Friday 25th October at 23:59. Good luck 
COMPETITION CLOSE – Congratulations to Amy Griffiths, see you at the Giant Screen
Yet another marvellous re-imagined MOON poster, this time from Dan Shearin. Tweeted to MOON Director Duncan Jones earlier today.
Much larger version available over on Dan’s portfolio, go and have a mooch
If you are an old geezer like me, you may recall the days we’d go and buy our music from a record shop. Our 7″ & 12″ vinyl singles and albums would come on lovely two sided vinyl. As well as the music there was visual content added into the bargain, wonderful sleeve art and paper printed centres carrying record label and catalogue numbers, we’d sit looking at all of this while listening to the music on our record players, it was good.
There was also sometimes secret visual content that only the most attentive would discover, and in those days we didn’t have an internet to pass on this information, so it was self discovery or word of mouth that would reveal… a message between the run out groove and the centre label.
Now, I have a vinyl copy of Clint Mansell‘s stunning soundtrack to MOON, it is still sealed in cellophane and “Mint” so I have never even taken the record out to look at it. At least one person has though, thanks to James Lloyd we can now reveal the secret message on the vinyl edition of the MOON soundtrack…
Check out more secret messages on Vinyl Remarks
Benedict Wong seems to be making a habit of appearing in British Sci-Fi films, so I decided to name the MOON / Sunshine double bill at the Prince Charles Cinema this month The Wong Connection, cus I can… Continue reading
Inspired by MOON and new developments in potential near Earth asteroid mining from companies such as DSI which could eventually lead to real life Lunar mining for Helium-3 (He-3), digital illustrator Adam Burn has created these fantastic concept lunar vehicles which have already caught an admiring eye from MOON Writer / Director Duncan Jones…
You know we love finding interesting new posters designed by all the talented people out there inspired by MOON & Source Code, but they are usually posters *for* MOON & Source Code.
This one tweeted to MOON Director Duncan Jones a couple of days ago by Matt Bucceri takes the idea of Sam Bell being cloned and appears to suggest that it was actually Sam Rockwell that was cloned. But by who? And how? And are there Sams walking around out there now?…
Cloning Sam Rockwell?
Digital Design student Patrick Chamberland was so inspired by his love of MOON and the work of Concept Artist and VFX Supervisor Gavin Rothery, he produced this stunning work as part of his course work at Centre NAD in Montreal, Canada.
Gerty Final by Patrick Chamberland
As well as sharing GERTY with us, Patrick was also kind enough to let us know some details about his version of GERTY:
I am currently a student in 3D Animation and Digital Design at Centre NAD, in Montreal, Canada, with a concentration in videogames.
We had a project in which we had to create a model of an object that was futuristic in nature and we had the option of creating a new design or using an already existing one. Being a huge fan of Moon (which I consider to be one of my top 5 movies of all-time) and Gavin Rothery’s designs, it then dawned on me that this would be the perfect opportunity to create my favorite robot ever, GERTY!
I was very fortunate that Gavin’s site was a treasure trove of fantastic reference to try and achieve the closest possible accuracy to the movie version of GERTY.
The actual model was created using 3DS MAX and a few different softwares were used to create the model’s textures with the main one being Photoshop.
What I think is really exciting with this model is that the image of the final rendered version is from a software named Marmoset Toolbag which is a real-time renderer. What this means is that the look of GERTY in the image is how he would look in an actual game engine such as the Unreal Engine.
If time permits, I would love to also model the whole Serang base and place it in the game engine which would mean that I would be able to walk around the whole base in real-time!
I have attached a picture of the non-textured/wireframed version of the model as well as a pic of the final “in-game” version.
This was certainly my most fun project to date and that was because of the passion ignited inside of me by Duncan’s amazing work in creating the movie masterpiece, Moon.
And here is the non-textured / wireframe image Patrick mentioned above. Stunning work once again from someone inspired by MOON. Thanks, Patrick
Gerty Wire by Patrick Chamberland
Have a mooch around Patrick’s site for more goodies.
Thanks to Zach Cannon over on Twitter for spotting this one and sending to Duncan. A new addition to the fan created MOON poster collection. This one is simple, but bloody lovely
MOON Poster by Jason Heatherly
Poster by Jason Heatherly