Bleach episode 285, news from Japan, and an amazing kid plays guitar with Ozzy Osborne on this week’s episode.

Japancast HD Video Episode 013 from Hitomi Griswold on Vimeo.

Links to items mentioned in this episode:

Perfect Blue

Paprika

Satoshi Kon’s last words (Japanese)

English Translation

The Exquisite Short Films of Kihachiro Kawamoto (1968-1979)

The Book of the Dead (Kihachiro Kawamoto)

Character animator, designer and illustrator Yoshii brings us Meat or Die.   Below you can watch a video of exactly how he creates one of  his characters.


You can view an entire gallery of his characters on his Picasa site HERE.

TV Dog

Or you can visit his website:  http://www.yoshii.com/

Recently he was profiled by Luxology on his use of their software called Modo in creating 3D characters.  You can read the interview on the Luxology site:  http://www.luxology.com/community/profiles/hiroshi_yoshii/

Jul 142008

Found this on FEED this morning.  A very cool spot created for Wieden+Kennedy Tokyo.  Click on the image to head over to Nike Labs and check out the spot.

Originally found on FEED

Tsujikawa Koichiro is a experimental animator and commercial director from Japan. He recently created the following music video.

Cornelius

The band is Called Cornelius.  You can visit their MySpace page HERE.

Head over to his website to view more music videos, commercials and short films: Tsujikawa Koichiro

Mar 032008

Now lets animating!

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Mar 032008

I always like to post things related to my profession.  Here’s a great instructional video from Japan on how animations are created.  It’s really basic, but for those of you who know nothing about animation, this really gives some insight into how much work goes into “simple cartoons”.

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