Vote for Age of Resistance for Best Fantasy TV Series with Saturn Awards

Recently, voting has opened for the 2021 Saturn Awards.

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance was nominated for Best Fantasy TV Series alongside, For All Mankind, Locke & Key, The Magicians, Outlander, The Twilight Zone and The Witcher.

Anyone can vote if you have an affiliate Level A membership for $40 USD to be eligible to vote in the category as well as 38 others as well.… Read the rest

The Age of Cancellation

UPDATE:

We’ll be recording a live show on Facebook on 24th September 3pm PST / 25th September 8am AEST on Facebook to go into detail about the news and much more. Hope you can join us – Philip

I think most of you have read the unfortunate news on The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance being officially cancelled by Netflix.… Read the rest

Designing Thra: Interview with Toby Froud

On this episode of Trial By Stone, Philip and Jaime chat to Toby Froud, design supervisor on The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance.

We chat about his early career working as a sculpter and fabricator for Laika Studios, working on his short film ‘Lessons Learned’, working alongside his parents Brian and Wendy Froud on The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance and much more!… Read the rest

How many years was Aughra asleep on Age of Resistance? We have the answer!

With the upcoming release of “Jim Henson’s The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance – Inside The Epic Return to Thra” on November 12th 2019, copies of the book have reportedly been shipped and sold at book events before its release.

In the book, there is a section dedicated to Mother Aughra, on the show we never got to know exactly how many years has passed since she slept exploring the stars, the book gives us an answer.… Read the rest

Behind The Scenes: How the prologue was created on The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

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Tune in to hear how Peter Eszenyi, VFX Supervisor and Creative Director, leads design teams and supervises visual effects for feature films, including the prologue for Netflix’s “The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance””.

If you’re interested in finding out how the VFX was created for the opening prologue from Episode 1 of The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, watch this video from Adobe Creative Cloud YouTube channel.

Louis Leterrier and Lisa Henson commentary on the Carriage Chase Scene from Episode 5 on The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

Lisa Henson and Louis Leterrier break down the carriage chase scene from their new Netflix original series, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. They take us through the process of filming a fast-paced action-scene with puppets. From melding the worlds of CGI and practical effects to the detailed choreography and defined camera movements, both creators give us an inside look at what it took to create this series.

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