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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.

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/

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

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”.