Iron Sky will premiere next month at the Berlinale!

Iron Sky is complete and will have its world premiere this February at the Berlin International Film Festival! Iron Sky is part of the official selection in the Panorama section, which screens films that push the envelope with unique vision.

What this means is that after six years of hard work Iron Sky will premiere at one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world. We couldn’t be happier!

All in all there will be six screenings during the festival between 11th and 19th of February. For more information where to book tickets see our website. In addition we’re holding a party after the premiere screening with the cast & crew. The festival ticket office opens next month, but for the premiere screening and the party we have had a limited number of tickets available from the Iron Sky Store.

See you in Berlin!

Edit: And we’re sold out on our store. Didn’t take long. We try and organize more tickets but can’t promise anything.

Iron Sky on Tour!

English summary: The Iron Sky main assault will launch in 83 days! Before the H-hour, Timo and Tero will scout ahead – the Iron Sky on Tour road trip takes our heroes thru Finland, pre-screening Iron Sky in almost 20 cities in Finland. Exciting times ahead!

Iron Skyn ensi-iltaan on vajaat kolme kuukautta! Ennen kuin kuunatsit käynnistävät maailmanvalloitusoperaationsa, lähtevät Tero ja Timo pienelle road tripille.

13.3.-3.4. pidettävä Iron Sky on Tour -kiertue vie sankarimme road trip -hengessä halki Suomen, esittämässä uunituoreesta spektaakkelista ennakkonäytöksiä liki 20 kaupungissa. Jokaiseen esitykseen kuuluu leffan lisäksi myös noin 45 minuutin pituinen keskustelutilaisuus, jossa Tero ja Timo vastaavat kysymyksiin itsenäisesti toteutetun elokuvan kehitys- ja tuotantovaiheista.? Lippujen hintaan sisältyy itse elokuvan ja sen jälkeen pidettävän keskustelutilaisuuden lisäksi signeerattu Iron Sky -juliste sekä vain kiertueella jaettava Iron Sky on Tour T-paita.

Iron Sky on Tour -kiertueen kaupungit, ennakkonäytäntöjen päivämäärät sekä arvioidut esitysajat löytyvät kiertueen omalta sivulta.

Yksittäispaikkojen lisäksi oppilaitoksilla, kouluilla ja yrityksillä on mahdollisuus varata itselleen kokonaisia yksityisnäytöksiä.

Lue lisää kiertueen sivuilla.

Do you want to be a Moon Nazi soldier in Iron Sky? You still have a chance!

We’ve just finished the edit of Iron Sky, and the film is looking darn good! We’re still going to be shooting one more day for some background characters for several large shots, and need few fan extras to join us in Helsinki on Wednesday, 23.11. from 09:00 onward. What we need is:

* Average-bodied male, a bit sporty would be preferable
* 170-175 cm
* Blonde, short, straight hair.

If you are interested, send an email with your info to merja@blindspot.fi with your headshot.

We won’t be able to pay you, but we’ll feed you :)

Iron Sky Comic #1 Is Out – Download It Now!

A couple of days ago we published the first issue of the Iron Sky comic, and you guys really liked it – in the first day and a half the comic got over 17 500 readers and many of you chose to pay for it! Thank you!

As is our habit, we decided to give a little bit more for all of you who have supported us: all of you who have paid for the comic, or joined the Iron Sky Sneak Peek earlier, can now download the comic as a pdf or a cbz-file to read on the road with your computer, tablet or smartphone! Just click here and enjoy!

Cbz-files can be read with programs such as ComicBookLover (OS X, iPad, iPhone), ComicRack (Windows), CDisplay (Windows) or Droid Comic Viewer (Android).

If you have no idea what we are talking about, here’s some background information about the comic: the first issue, titled Bad Moon Rising, tells the story of how the Nazis fled the Earth. The coming issues will explore the decades after the WWII, the building of the Moon Station Schwarze Sonne, and the rise of Wolfgang Kortzfleisch (played by Udo Kier in the film) to the Führer of the Moon base.

As a thank you for our fan community we released the first part of the comic for free online, and you can find it here. If you want to support us, you can also pay for the comic and pick your own price – those who pay get also access to Iron Sky Sneak Peek, where you can see how the first five minutes of the film is created. Additionally they can now download the comic as a pdf or a cbz comic book file, and they will get the two other issues of the comic without an extra charge!

The three comics are written by Mikko Rautalahti, who has earlier worked on the Xbox 360 game Alan Wake, and the film Imaginaerum. The first issue is illustrated by Gerry Kissell, whose work includes Codeword: Geronimo, Children of the Grave, The A-Team: War Stories and Army of Two.

Once again all of this is published without DRM and all the money will go to making Iron Sky the best film we possibly can!

Apology Accepted, Ziiso – Now Let’s Talk Business

For the last two weeks we’ve been following the release of the first Iron Sky pirate product, an iPad game made by a Chinese company Ziiso. The game has remarkable similarities to our film, starting with the name and ending with actual graphics and so on, but nobody from Ziiso had contacted us about the release of the game. We reported this over to Apple, and they kindly suggested Ziiso to remove the game from the store, which also happened.

But that’s not all. The fine gentlemen at Ziiso took the time and apologized us through Helsingin Sanomat (the main newspaper in Finland), after being contacted by a reporter. They told in their apology that as sci-fi fans they’d been blown away by the Iron Sky visuals and the idea, and wanted to remodel their game after our film. As film makers, this is of course heartwarming to hear.

So, Ziiso: apology accepted.

Now, let’s talk business.

You have been inspired by our work, and created a game based on it. Ok, you didn’t do it exactly by the book, but now that you realized it you apologized and removed the game from the store, all is well.

Then again, we’d like to do a game for iPads and iPhones. So the question is: why not work together?

Here’s an idea – let’s unify the graphics with the Iron Sky story, fix the main problems of the game, and do a fair deal about the revenue. Once the game is out as an official and licensed Iron Sky product, we’ll start putting the word out there, and everybody wins.

What you say? If the idea is good, drop a line to pekka@blindspot.fi and let’s make some history together!

Iron Sky is Hiring: Looking for a Coder

The Iron Sky team is looking for a talented web programmer to join the team. We don’t care if you are human, robot or a sentient cloud of superheated plasma – as long as you can handle your code and want to warn the world of the coming moon nazi invasion. Let us know who you are by emailing Jarmo at jarmo@ironsky.net

You will be working with our marketing team as a web-programmer and site builder. You’ll be an essential member of the team working to create the best film website in the world. Our philosophy is to use open source solutions and existing services to take content to the people. Currently our site runs on WordPress, Videos are published trough YouTube and media tracking uses Delicious.

What we need:
Good knowledge and previous experience creating online services using PHP. Good grasp of JavaScript and CSS. Basic understanding of usability and interface design.

We appreciate experience with WordPress, integrating services and using APIs. Graphical skills (Photoshop, Flash) are a plus.

What we offer:
We offer work on a freelance basis. If you are a local student (Helsinki, Finland or willing to relocate) we would love to offer you internship leading to employment if all goes well.

What are you waiting for?
Send your CV and a tell us a bit about who you are, what you’ve done and what would you like to do in life. Contact us by email: jarmo@ironsky.net

CGI Friday – New Iron Sky Signal & Sneak Peek!

Hello! If you are into CGI, this will be an interesting day for you, since you will get two in depth peeks into the Iron Sky visual effects. First of all we have just released a new Iron Sky Signal, which is about the guys in Energia Productions cranking out the Iron Sky visual effects – more or less 24/7!

We have also – finally – released the next installment of Iron Sky Sneak Peek, our fan service where the subscribers will get to see how the first five minutes of Iron Sky are being made, starting from the idea and progressing month by month to the final movie. This time you’ll see the second CGI previz of the Moon sequence, where some parts of the CGI are already starting to resemble the end result. If you are not already following the Sneak Peek, now it’s a great time to start – every cent from the subscriptions goes into making the film!

Iron Sky Sneak Peek #10 – The Second CGI Previz

Thanks again for following us and for the support!

Iron Sky Invades New York – Come Meet Us On Wednesday!

The Iron Sky core team is currently in New York shooting some scenes and cityscapes, which are going to be used for example as the backgrounds of a dogfight between Nazi UFOs and modern fighters.

Damn, Iron Sky should be reclassified as as natural disaster movie: in Frankfurt we were hit by a snowstorm that paralyzed the city, in Australia there were serious floods and cyclones, and now in New York torrential rains are flooding the subways!

That won’t stop us, though! We will also arrange a combined informal fan and media meet on this Wednesday 17th of August at 7pm at Hotel Stay, 157 West 47th street. Come and meet us, get to see some hitherto unreleased materials from the film. We are also planning to do some guerrilla filming with our fans – stay tuned in our Twitter and Facebook as we finalize our plans on that!

The Iron Sky team, including the director Timo Vuorensola and producer Tero Kaukomaa, are also available for interviews for traditional media, blogs, etc! Please send interview requests in New York to Merja Ritola (merja ät blindspot.fi, +358 50 5937714).

Thanks for supporting us, hope to see you and your friends on Wednesday!

p.s. We set up a Facebook event for the meetup as well. If you know you’re coming, let us know.

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The Iron Sky Team

Iron Sky is looking for Lightwave artists to join the VFX team

We are looking for two skilled Lightwave artists to join the Iron Sky VFX team here in Tampere, Finland.

You should know Lightwave inside and out, being able to model, light and texture as needed.

We want you to start work as soon as possible and be available until the end of November. You will be working as part of a team in our office in the center of Tampere, Finland. We can offer you temporary accommodation and will help you find a place to stay.

We can offer you an interesting project to work on, a highly skilled team (our people worked on Battlestar Galactica, Star Wreck etc.) to work with and a nice salary. Join us and we promise you won’t be bored for the next four months.

If you are interested send your resume and reel (links please, no big files) to jobs@ironsky.net.

If you have any questions contact Lightwave team leader Kelly ‘Kat’ Myers at kat@liberty3d.com.

Rumor control: UFO fleet over London

A lot of websites and newspapers have picked up on this video of UFOs above the Radio 1 building in London on 24th of June. There has been a lot of speculation about the authenticity of the video and several news sources, including Space.com, have suggested it is viral marketing for Iron Sky. It’s not.

We would like to make it absolutely clear that we have nothing to do with the video, or the similar Jerusalem UFO video from last January. In our opinion the Norway spiral seen in 2009 seemed a lot more like something we would do.

From a computer graphics point of view the only thing special about the footage is the very visible rolling shutter “jellycam” effect. It’s caused by the way digital cameras work and most visible in cheap cellphone cameras, but even the mighty RED suffers from it. What it means is that it makes it more difficult to add anything to a video that has a strong rolling shutter effect since one would have to add distortion to all the new elements that would match the original video. This does not mean that the London footage is genuine, just that if it’s faked they either a) went to some trouble compositing the UFOs or b) that they added the jellycam effect to a stable video to make it seem more believable.

Other than that the video would have been very easy to fake and my personal opinion is that it most likely is fake. I’ve got no other evidence to back that up than seeing quite a few shops in my time, but I’m sure there will be a thorough analysis soon enough.

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