Variety's 'Pacific Rim' Blueprint Cover + Concept Art & Photos

A fantastic Pacific Rim cover for Variety Magazine - which isn't exactly known for creative covers.

Plus some cool concept art images and set photos - full story here. More photos here.

Monsters vs Mechs FTW! - PACIFIC RIM - Trailer & Poster

And here's the Official Poster and a couple of other col images via Pacific Rim on Facebook

Real Steel Robot Concept Art and Special Effects Featurette

Just a sample of some of the production concept art and robot character design done by Victor Martinez for the hit film. Via i09 which also has a great interview discussing the design process and inspirations...

One important way these robots are different from Transformers: they look like they were made by people. Martinez says the design team was keen for the robots to look utilitarian, with gears, pistons, servos and gyros. "They had to feel like they really functioned," he said.
Many of the robot designs include a throwback to the vintage, humanoid robots of the 1950s, with an "old-timey nostalgic feel" but also a contemporary spin, says Martinez. It was all part of establishing a "robot language" that would inform all the different robots in the movie.

Also check out this featurette from the Daily that covers the special effect used to create convincing fighting robots.

"The Sound of Real Steel" New Featurette by SoundWorks and Two Cool Alternate Movie Posters

SoundWorks Collection - The Sound of Real Steel from Michael Coleman on Vimeo.

See more fascinating videos on sound design from the SoundWorks Collection here.

Bonus - Alternate posters for the film.

Real Steal Pummels Web With A Big Robot Fist Full of Clips

First up a cool TV Spot heavily focused on the Robots

And here's a bunch of scene preview clips... which might be considered Spoilery to some.

And there are even a couple more clips over at The Playlist.

Real Steel - It's Sugar Ray vs Romance in Latest Preview Clips

First up - Sugar Ray Leonard teaches Hugh Jackman how to to teach robots to fight in new 

behind the scenes featurette from Yahoo!movies.

Meanwhile Popsugar's exclusive clip features a more romantic conflict between 

Jackman's character Charlie and Evangeline Lilly as Bailey.

Real Steel - Hugh Jackman Answers Fan Questions Plus Robot Wallpapers

More wallpapers @ Real Steel Movie site.

Everybody Was Robot Fighting! - Real Steel NoisyBoy Vs Midas Clip

More Real Steel - Paper Model Robot PDF & Video Plus WRB Robot Boxing Viral Site Fun

While embedding the latest trailer I noticed this How To video for a Papercraft Noisy Boy 

Robot Model from the film... the PDF download page is here. 

There are both a simple and detailed model choice as well as uncolored versions.

There is also a viral site for the WRB (World Robot Boxing) site, where you can build your own virtual fighting robots. Recently it has been "hacked" by the Underworld to tout it's rougher Fight Club style of robot fights. So some of their clips may show up at the WRB or visit underworldoverthrow.com.

 More details on the viral campaign @ Movie Viral

Real Steel - Now With More Robot Fighting! And Eminem! - "Hit Back" New Trailer

Real Steel - Hugh Jackman in a Robot Rocky - New Trailer

Yep - the fighting robots do look pretty awesome. And while my first thought was - it's a Robot Rocky, the the focus on the father/son theme leads me think it's more like The Champ updated with 'Bots.

Here's the IMDB entry for original 1931 Champ as well.