Tag: japan
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Naoshima, Japan
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Fumiyo’s Confession
Fumiyo’s confession is a great animation piece by Hiroyasu Ishida. The detail given to the characters and background environment is quite complex but works so well together. This animation has so energy it’s made me want to get up and jump around. The team behind this animation will be big in a few years. The…
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Nuclear Boy
Titled “Nuclear Boy has a Stomach Ache” Maybe Nuclear boy is the far distant cousin of Fall out boy from the Simpsons? To explain the nuclear crisis to children Japan has come up with a small animation explaining the situation to children. It explains complex ideas of nuclear physics concisely for children to understand, effectively…
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Help Japan
It’s no secret I have a fondness for Japan. I love how an island is totally devoted to art. The unique process to design, that isn’t seen anywhere else in the world. The production of anime and how it has influenced animation. I was hoping to visit early next year, right now I don’t know…
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I miss Japan
Yoskay Yamamoto “Intimate Strangers” from Jeremy Asher Lynch on Vimeo. The video above shows why!
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You have to be insane to be creative
In all honesty, people who take something that they like doing and decide to do it for a living are actually a little insane. Which is not to say that they are stupid. In fact, the majority of them are clever. Whether these people be animators or manga artists though, the fact remains that the…
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Coltex Inc
I came across an interesting site the other day that I thought was worth sharing. Coltex I believe is a Japanese advertising company (please feel free to correct me if I’m wrong). I found their site on FWA and I was struck on how unusual the navigational system is. Instead of using a conventional navigation…
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Japanese Cards
I was cleaning out my desk the other day and came across these cards I collected in Japan from my trip last year. It seems I never throw anything away, I also found some old flyer’s, packaging and train tickets. I thought they were quite nice and decided to share them with people. There is…
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Videos
I’ve uploaded these videos on youtube. From my trip to Japan in 2007, I feel this is a good example of parallax motion. [HTML1] And the carousel ride at semphore. [HTML2]
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Manhole covers
While travelling in japan last year I noticed the man hole covers were quite different from the ones we have in Australia. Each city had a unique cover some were very pretty. I wasn’t able to get all manhole covers in Japan (though it would make a good excuse to go back to japan) but…