Green Screen Made Easy: Keying and Compositing Techniques for Indie Filmmakers [BOOK REVIEW]

Posted By Reverend Leviathan on Jan 12, 2017 in Featured, Origin: DGM Staff, Review: Books, Review: Multimedia, Reviews, Type: Article (w/ Photos)

The authors of Green Screen Made Easy take us into the world of special effects found in filmmaking and photography. Not only do you learn how it’s done, but you learn how to do it yourself using easy, affordable methods while still retaining visual quality.

Catalyst (Star Wars): A Rogue One Novel [BOOK REVIEW]

Posted By JT Hanke on Dec 8, 2016 in Featured, Origin: DGM Staff, Review: Books, Reviews

Orson Krennic is a rising star within the Republic during the Clone Wars and, after stealing plans for a super battle station from the Separatists—knowing that a successful build could allow him to usurp Governor Tarkin, his military rival, in Senator Palpatine’s good graces— he decides the Republic needs to make one of their own. (Considering how often plans for massive space stations keep getting stolen in the Star Wars universe, am I the only one that’s wondering if perhaps all the major players in Star Wars are using the same firewall responsible for the Sony hacking scandal of 2015?)

Star Wars Aftermath: Life Debt [BOOK REVIEW]

Posted By JT Hanke on Nov 10, 2016 in Featured, Review: Books, Reviews

Shortly after the events of Life Debt, Nora Wexley, her son Temmin, the deadly (but now, strangely cuddly) robot, Mister Bones, and their crew of rebel miscreants find themselves hunting down escaped Imperial leaders for a New Republic war tribunal. Meanwhile, Grand Admiral Rae Sloane seeks…

The Obsidian Chamber [BOOK REVIEW]

Posted By JT Hanke on Oct 14, 2016 in Featured, Origin: DGM Staff, Review: Books, Reviews

After the events of Crimson Shore, Agent Pendergast is lost at sea and presumed dead. A grieving Constance returns to the Riverside mansion in NYC to the care of loyal housekeeper Mrs. Trask and resourceful bodyguard Proctor. Unable to deal with her guilt and sorrow in the topside world, she retreats to the underground catacombs that she knows best.

But when a shadowy spectre from the past knocks out Proctor and kidnaps Constance, he’ll have to go on a global chase to rescue her before she ends up dead—or worse.

Beyond the Ice Limit [BOOK REVIEW]

Posted By JT Hanke on Oct 12, 2016 in Featured, Origin: DGM Staff, Review: Books, Reviews

After the mysterious events of the Lost Island, Gideon Crew discovers the secret healing benefits his employer has received from the plants on the lost island, allowing him to now walk. Could this cure work for Gideon’s own deadly condition? It doesn’t seem like it, but its miraculous properties are enough to keep a skeptic like Gideon on the hook with Glinn in his strangest quest yet: the search for a presumably dangerous alien life form at the bottom of the ocean past the Ice Limit.

The Death of Superman Book & DVD Set [GRAPHIC NOVEL REVIEW]

Posted By JT Hanke on Sep 28, 2016 in Featured, Origin: DGM Staff, Review: Blu-Ray, Review: Books, Review: DVDs, Review: Graphic Novels/Comics, Reviews, Type: Article (w/ Photos), Type: Article (w/ Videos)

I first got into Superman when, as a child, I lived in a desert town with no TV and, once a month, we’d go to the largest city in our area to get provisions. There was a half-price comic book store and I would find ‘70’s and ‘80’s Bronze age books for 15 cents apiece, purchasing as many as I could to make the month until I got back bearable. DC comics always had a more powerful tone to me and I would try to buy comics that I could find in as sequential an order as possible. Superman books were some of the more intriguing (second only to Flash, in my mind) because he was so powerful, that the w

Bloodline (Star Wars) [BOOK REVIEW]

Posted By JT Hanke on May 18, 2016 in Featured, Review: Books, Reviews, Type: Article (w/ Photos)

In Bloodline, we follow Princess Leia some 6 years before the events of The Force Awakens, where she’s a married senator who’s trying to get the New Republic to work together, Han is her devoted husband who runs space races to keep sharp, Chewie lives back on Kashyyk with his family, and her son, Ben, is being taught the ways of the force by Luke. When a secret scheme forces Leia and her aides to explore the dark criminal underworld of a nearby star system, no one is prepared for the depth of the conspiracy–or the secrets–which will be unearthed in the process!

Bloodbound: Pathfinder Tales [BOOK REVIEW]

Posted By JT Hanke on Feb 24, 2016 in Featured, Origin: DGM Staff, Review: Books, Reviews

Larsa is OFFICIALLY a Royal Accuser-the Pathfinder equivalent of the U.S. Marshalls meets the KGB-in the Ustalavian capital of Caliphas. Somewhat like the Marvel Knights’ character, Blade, she’s also half-Vampire/half-human (a half-breed known as a dhampir), which causes her to be held in contempt by both humans and vampires. Despite her pariah status, Siervage-the designated leader of the Vampires in Ustalav-has found a use for Larsa’s unique skills: vampire hunter. More like vampire dog catcher, she’s required to hunt down and destroying any rogue spawn who endanger the pact he’s made bet

Crimson Shore [BOOK REVIEW]

Posted By JT Hanke on Dec 16, 2015 in DGM Recommended, Featured, Origin: DGM Staff, Review: Books, Reviews

After his near death experience a few months ago, agent Pendergast decides to take a smaller case–one that deals with a wine theft in the tiny town of Exmouth, Massachusetts. However, shortly after arriving, the murder of a visiting writer in a darkly occult manner forces Pendergast and his exceptional ward, Constance, to explore Exmouth’s dark history involving rumors of mass murder, shipwrecks, and witchcraft.

Black Widow: Forever Red [BOOK REVIEW]

Posted By Veronika Gypsy on Nov 13, 2015 in Featured, Origin: DGM Staff, Review: Books, Reviews, Type: Article (w/ Photos)

When S.H.I.E.L.D. operative (and former assassin) Natasha Romanov rescues 9 year old Ava Orlova from the same sort of Red Room training facility that turned her into a killer decades before, she’s forced to confront her own fear of intimacy and compassion as she discovers that her oldest enemy has inextricably linked her to the girl she thought she rescued. 8 years later, Natasha, Ava, and a somehow familiar stranger named Alex will have to use all their skills and abilities to outwit a dangerous Russian megalomaniac and stop the insidious “Forever Red” protocol before it undermines and destr

Star Wars: Lost Stars [BOOK REVIEW]

Posted By Veronika Gypsy on Oct 16, 2015 in Review: Books, Reviews

20 years before the events of “A New Hope,” the reign of the Galactic Empire reaches the Outer Rim planet of Jelucan, where aristocratic Thane Kyrell and rural villager Ciena Ree bond over their love of flying. Inspired in their youth by a charismatic Imperial leader, the reality of them both enrolling at the Imperial Academy to become fighter pilots for the glorious Empire is nothing less than a dream come true.