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One Month In Tokyo
I spent the month of July, 2010 working as an animator at Shirogumi VFX in Tokyo. I had a great time living and working in Tokyo and I wanted to share my experience. Please enjoy! Thanks to Shirogumi and my uni (Kyoto University of Art) for this opportunity. Music: Quruli – Rose Flower Also live [...]
Sakura Season
The cherry blossoms won’t last long but I wanted to get out and shoot some of them. I think they are the most interesting at night, there is so much depth and color, light and shadow. The lamps in the park gave off a great pink lens flare that worked really well with the cherry [...]
Osaka Sumo
We had a great day watching Sumo, here are a few pics from our day out. Thanks to Rulo’s advice we sat up front in the beginning during the lower ranked fights. It was amazing to see them up close. As the day progressed the better fighter’s came out, each rank has different clothing, hairstyles, [...]
Tetsujin 28
Ayumi and I had a fun night walking around Kobe. It was freezing, but there were so many interesting things to check out.
Kiyomizu Temple
I had a great walk around the Kiyomizu Temple today. It was a great day, lots of sunshine and fresh air. OK, I’m ready for autumn now!
Osaka Aquarium Sketches
Ayumi and I had a great day at the Osaka Aquarium. From there we checked out the Ghibli layout exhibit at the Suntory Museum across the street. After seeing so many fish and so many great drawings, I couldn’t help being inspired.
(almost)a total eclipse of the sun
Here in Kyoto, Japan we had about a 90% eclipse of the sun. Although the weather wasn’t ideal, I could see enough of the sun to burn it into my retina. Actually my new digital camera(Panasonic GH1) made a great “eclipse viewer” as the viewscreen was digital rather than reflected directly through the lens. I [...]
Sparks, work in progress
If the lights are out, it's because I'm in the basement working. Yep, a lot has happened since my last post. To give you a glimpse into my universe...
Art Island Naoshima
Naoshima Island is a small fishing island located in the Seto Inland Sea of Japan. A series of very unique museums and buildings were commissioned on the island featuring designs by Tadao Ando, James Turrell, Walter De Maria, and paintings by Claude Monet...
Hiroshima 2008 Animation Festival
The Hiroshima Animation festival was great, as well as being a bit of a blur. It was interesting seeing so many animation, over 200, during the four days that I was there. There was a variety of work from all over the world, although there seemed to be a larger number of work from Eastern [...]
Crab Character