Category: Anime & Manga
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Wenjun Lin
Wenjun Lin is a game development artist, illustrator and comics artist based in Shanghai. There is a portfolio on Character Design Reference, and another on Art Station I don’t know specifically which projects the images are from, but most have a delightful, innocent childrens book illustration vibe and a playful anime spirit. They’re lush with…
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Shinji Tsuchimochi’s 100 Views of Tokyo
The name of Japanese illustrator Shinji Tsuchimochi’s series of drawings, “100 Views of Tokyo“, is of course a reference to the well known series of 19th century woodblock prints by Utagawa Hiroshige, “One Hundred Famous Views of Edo” (AKA Tokyo). Tsuchimochi’s colorful, sometimes straightforward but often fanciful drawings of his home city owe as much…
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Yoshiharu Sato’s Studio Ghibli style TV commercial
I don’t know about you, but I’m really tired of CGI special effects in television commercials. Some years ago, I was an enthusiastic fan of CGI; now I’m weary of the way computer generated effects saturate almost everything. often as a substitute for story or characterizartion. What a refreshing change it is to see something…
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Hayao Miyazaki animated short
Hayao Miyazaki, director of some of the most fantastic and beautifully executed animated feature films in history, is not known for creating short films. According to io9, this animated short, which has recently become available on Vimeo, was an exercise to break a creative block Miyazaki experienced while working on Princess Mononoke. The film was…
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Koji Morimoto animated sequence
As I mentioned back in 2007, Koji Morimoto is one of my favorite animation directors, though he has done far too little animation in recent years for the liking of his fans. Morimoto has recently animated a brief sequence as part of a short film directed by Mitsuyo Miyazaki, and sponsored (with lots of product…