This is a CGI model of what a Space Invader from the classic video game might look like in real life. It was created by digital artist Tom Carruthers, and looks super icky.

If they’re just flying alien head things then what are they shooting at us? Spit, or even worse?! YUCK! Head behind the barrier, or prepare to wipe alien blech off your screen!

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This is the most amazing street art I’ve ever seen, not only because it’s so well drawn but also because it has a stereoscopic quality to it that makes the buildings appear to be of dizzying heights, which threatens to give me a headache but is otherwise amazing. Created by artist Kurt Wenner, this massive street illustration would be awesome to see in person, I want to walk the web like the people in the picture.

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This short demonstrates how sometimes simpler is better, and that good acting and straight ahead storytelling are often better than over-the-top action and visual effects in 3d animation. Enjoy!

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This amazing new device does a lot more than project little duckies onto objects, it projects a truly 3d image onto whichever surface you choose. You can walk around your projection, view it from all sides, and would make for the greatest ghost prank ever. Scooby Doo-style crimes via ghostly projected images have never been easier!

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Visitors at Stefan Da Costa Gomez’s gallery show viewed acrylic paintings of Bogey and other classic Hollywood stars through 3D glasses. He achieves the effect with anaglyphic layering, a technique placing contrasting colors on top of each other to make an image pop.

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Defective Bigbot Short from Michele Boldoni on Vimeo.

A group of friends put together this cute CGI short about a defective robot, and it looks quite nice considering these amateurs had no experience as professional animators. It’s no surprise that they all found jobs while making the short, they definitely have the skills! Hear what the artists have to say about the project at the Vimeo link above.

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Great White Shark 3D Anatomy Model - $24.95

Are you crazy about sharks?  You need the Great White Shark 3D Anatomy Model from the NeatoShop! This amazingly detailed 3D puzzle of the great white shark is made of 20 fantastic pieces.  It comes complete with a stand and illustrated guide book. Get to know this ferocious predator today!

Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more terrifyingly fabulous Toys & Games!

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Scientists have taken 3 dimensional photographs of the Titanic’s final resting place, documenting the wreckage like never before in order to gain a better understanding of how and why the ship sank so rapidly. The images were presented in a courtroom in Virginia as part of a salvage claim, and will soon be released for the world to see in the hopes that more answers will be revealed about the mystery of the Titanic.

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The Magnetic Dead 3D Zombie Magnets – $14.95

We were warned, but nothing could truly prepare us for the massive zombie outbreak currently taking place at the NeatoShop.  It is the end of the world as we know it! The Magnetic Dead 3D Zombie Magnets have finally arrived! AHHHHHHHHND we cannot contain our excitement over the launch of this new gruesomely fantastic line!

Do not be afraid!  This 10-piece refrigerator magnet corpse is not  just another useless Zombie toy.  This flesh eating monster is always there when you need a hand, or a foot.   You can use his body parts to hang up notes.   When work has become mind numbingly dull you can spend hours upon hours mixing, matching, and dancing around his body parts.  The Magnetic Dead 3D Zombie is your key to survival.

Get your Magnetic Dead 3D Zombie from the NeatoShop now.  You don’t want to be left scavenging for one later.   Can you really live without one?

Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more Zombie fun!

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It’s called the “Immersive Cocoon” but it’s really more like a residential-scale Holodeck, where you can work, exercise, watch movies, play games, or visit the aquarium. Designer Tino Schaedler and design-and-ad firm NAU incorporated everything a 3D virtual reality consumer could want, including motion capture cameras, motion-sensing floor panels, 3D surround sound, 360-degrees of interior display space and even air conditioning. Dvice has a gallery of cool ideas for the Immersive Cocoon.

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I’m someone who can barely make a credible smiley face with a pencil. So seeing these amazing three dimensional drawings done in pencil are truly mind blowing. See the link for the full gallery of drawings by the young artist Fredo.

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Artist Nikki Rosato creates amazing sculptures of human figures by using old street maps people have tossed. She started out by cutting flat silhouettes out of maps, then progressed to this stunning 3D work that she creates by eliminating all of the landmasses from the maps. She then uses wire to guide the remaining roads and waterways into the shape she wants. The result is “ambiguous and hauntingly ghost-like,” as she says in her artist’s statement.

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Logan’s Run, the fantastic science fiction film that debuted in 1976, is getting a reboot in 3D. If you’ve seen the film The Island, you’ve basically seen Logan’s Run with a slightly different twist and in a much toned down iteration.

The plot involved a dystopian future society in which population and the consumption of resources is managed and maintained in equilibrium by the simple expediency of killing everyone who reaches the age of thirty (21 in the book), thus neatly (and inhumanely) avoiding the issue of overpopulation which was of growing concern at the time. Those who try to escape their destiny are known as a “Runners”, and is hunted down by operatives known as Sandmen.

Check out the trailer for the original film here.

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What of The Empire Strikes Back were a 3D movie from the 1950s? It would look somewhat like this. A list of the video sources can be seen at the YouTube link. -via The Daily What

Why would someone post a video of a painting? Because you need to see it in three dimensions to get the full effect.

This is a movie of a super-cool “painting” hanging in the basement of the British Library, in London. The author has done many such paintings, but this is the best (and all the others are very similar). It’s called “Paradoxymoron”, by Patrick Hughes

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Mural artist Eric Grohe is a master of Tromp l’oeil, the art of illusion. Believe it or not, the right side of the building shown is completely flat!

He believes that his art should involve, challenge and inspire the viewer; not simply adorn, but integrate with its architectural surroundings. Works of the size and scope that Mr. Grohe creates take months to complete as attention must be given to every detail, no matter how small.

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These incredibly lifelike paintings were created by John Pugh who calls his artwork “trick of the eye.”

The Californian-born artist said: ‘It seems almost universal that people take delight in being visually tricked.’

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NuFormer is a company in the Netherlands that creates amazing, 3D projection displays on buildings. Basically they manage to sync up the projected image with the building just so, and then they can make it look the building is collapsing, like water is flooding down the roof, like ghostly lights are dancing in the windows or twirling around the columns.

I’ve honestly never seen anything like it, and I hope I can see it in person sometime. (The goofy pop music in the clip does detract from the cool factor a bit, though.)

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From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by gregs.

A gorgeous 3D film by Clement Crocq, Margaux Durand-Rival and Nicolas Novali for the “Supinfocom Arles” in 2008. It depicts the antics of a young Peruvian boy, his Llama and a Pilot who goes through a psychedelic experience filled with Peruvian iconography and mysticism. Also check out the making of the film on CGSociety as it details the fascinating steps into creating a 3D short film.

TGIF!

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Everyone has used, seen or, at least, heard of a ViewMaster, the most classic of classic toys. For decades children have peered through the plastic ViewMaster binoculars and been transported to other worlds. As a kid, who didn’t watch a scuffle between Batman and The Joker play out in a myriad of 3D Pows and Whams or become a witness to picnic basket thievery by the infamous Yogi Bear. But who was responsible for creating the contraption’s 3D images?

“Most fans of the tiny fantasy worlds glimpsed through the lens of a View-Master viewer are probably unaware of the name Florence Thomas. Thomas was the Portland, Oregon sculptor employed by the makers of the 3-D viewer to create miniature dioramas of fairy tales and pop culture scenes which she then photographed for reproduction into the iconic circular white reels that have delighted children and adult collectors for decades.”

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From the Upcoming Queue, submitted by whitespace.