The cartridge holder that pulled back the curtain on movie special effects , Cinefex , is make its move to the iPad , and you have a chance to collar the full digital archive . Plus , a group of scientist want to bring automaton ants to your living room ( figuratively speaking ) , and two funny horror comics are headed to print .
Cinefex Classic Collection for iPad
Since 1980 , Cinefex Magazine has taken us behind the scenes of special consequence and animation in film . It documented the secrets of our most wizardly movie moment long before the world of videodisk extras . Now they are looking to make all 126 back upshot and future issues of the magazine available on the iPad , make a digital archive of the magazine publisher . At various toast level , backers receive full running game of digital issue featuring in - profundity coverage of Star Wars movies , Star Trek movies , and stop - movement animated picture show . For a $ 285 toast , backers can get all 126 back issues .
Bringing zombie ants to life!
Ophiocordyceps unilateralis ( well known by its former name Cordyceps unilateralis ) has gotten a destiny of attention of tardy thanks to the living dead video recording biz The Last of Us . This bloodsucking fungus hijacks ants and controls their behavior until it finally break from the ant ’s consistency . A mathematical group of scientists that meditate the zombie ant phenomenon wants to make their research more visibly accessible to the world :
Our KickStarter labor has two main goals : ( 1 ) create an open accession photographic exhibition of zombi ant from around the world and ( 2 ) develop groundbreaking educational material that ask students in the process of doing skill . We need Kickstarter to help us travel to field sites in Borneo , Uganda , Vietnam , Brazil , and Louisiana , U.S.A. to photograph and collect zombie ants and to analyse how and why emmet get infect . Along the way we will bring you with us- through picture updates from the field , blog posts , and Q&A sessions with our scientist .
Once back , we will turn over material from the expeditions into last ( and free ! ) photographic and educational resources . Your thoughts will be an inbuilt part of this- we will occupy the great unwashed throughout the discovery and record what parts of the natural story most catch you .
For a $ 25 pledge , backers will receive a zombie ant photograph along with an account of the science behind the photo .
Monster Elementary: An All-Ages Graphic Novel
Nicholas Doan writes and Canaan Grall ( of the fabulousMax Overacts ) trace this 90 - page pictorial novel about five monster fry that are force to see a human public schoolhouse after their ogre - only private schooling is raided by the FBI . If you want to try before you back , Doan has made the first six issues of the comic uncommitted for free through the digital appEmanata . For an $ 8 pledge , backers receive a PDF of Monster Elementary . For a $ 25 pledge , they ’ll get the print Holy Writ .
Broodhollow Book 1: Curious Little Thing
We loveBroodhollow , Kris Straub ’s delightfully creepy webcomic about a paranoid encyclopedia salesman who comes to a small town to claim his inheritance . But Broodhollow , the township of a thousand holidays , may hold some supernatural mystery beneath its upbeat facade . For a $ 9 assurance , backers receive a PDF of the book and Straub ’s self-confidence that revengeful wraiths will not come up for them in the night . For a $ 33 toast , angel have a softcover Christian Bible , plus PDFs of the book , sketch , and report roughs . You ’re on your own with the wraiths .
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