A Nerd Chrismuka Wishlist: Assassin’s Creed Monteriggioni Hoodies

Insert Coin Clothing is selling these awesome hoodies inspired by Assassin’s Creed:Brotherhood. They are $55, £35, €40 but only available for shipping in the UK. So find a friend and have them ship it to you in the states.

In 1499, Monteriggioni was at the height of its splendour, all thanks to a certain Ezio. Celebrate his hard work with this official hoodie. The unique eagle peak on the hoodie folds away perfectly, tucking back inside the hood on whenever you want to blend in.

[via GeekTyrant]

Making a Zombie by the Walking Dead Makeup People

A Step-by-Step Guide from the Walking Dead Makeup Team
[via Design You Trust]

1. The “Walking Dead” makeup team fits actor Kevin Galbraith with a bald cap and accentuate his high cheekbones to make them look sunken.

2. Next, Galbraith is fitted with rotten-looking, custom-made dentures that can fit under a prosthesis.

3. A custom-made, foam latex prosthesis extends from Galbraith’s forehead to his neck.

4. Makeup artists Kevin Wasner (far left) and Jake Garber glue on individual body wounds. “We had to do his entire upper body. It took 45 minutes,” Nicotero says. Zombie blood is a mixture of Karo syrup, red and yellow food coloring and caramel, plus a drop of detergent so it soaks through clothing.

5. Garber next fits the greasy, sparse zombie wig to the bald cap.

6. Zombies have no time to shave so Wasner adds some stubble and some disgusting dried blood around Galbraith’s mouth. “It’s black sludge in their veins,” says Nicotero.

7. The application of hand-painted white contact lenses is the final step of Galbraith’s transformation from working actor to frightening zombie. “The most inspiring part of what we’re doing is that you can have the same person sit in your chair 10 times and they won’t look like the same person when they walk out of the makeup trailer,” says Nicotero.

And Now a Snow White Movie

At SDCC this year, Universal Pictures had director Rupert Sanders show a concept video of his new film, Snow White and the Huntsman. Here’s a synopsis:

In the epic action-adventure Snow White and the Huntsman, Kristen Stewart (Twilight) plays the only person in the land fairer than the evil queen (Oscar^® winner Charlize Theron) who is out to destroy her.  But what the wicked ruler never imagined is that the young woman threatening her reign has been training in the art of war with a huntsman (Chris Hemsworth, Thor) who was dispatched to kill her.  Sam Claflin (Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides) joins the cast as the prince long enchanted by Snow White’s beauty and power.

The breathtaking new vision of the legendary tale is from Joe Roth, the producer of Alice in Wonderland, producer Sam Mercer (The Sixth Sense) and acclaimed commercial director and state-of-the-art visualist Rupert Sanders.

On Wednesday, Universal released a banner showing the movie’s extremely awesome atmosphere.

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The film is scheduled to be released on June 1, 2012.