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  • Shinji Tsuchimochi’s 100 Views of Tokyo

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    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…

  • Yoshiharu Sato’s Studio Ghibli style TV commercial

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    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…

  • Hayao Miyazaki animated short

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    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…

  • Koji Morimoto animated sequence

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    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…

  • Nantala Kantala

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    As far as I can tell, Nantala Kantala is a Japanese illustrator, and/or anime artist. I only have this site to go by, and Google Translate has been of little help. I did find, however, that the characters to the immediate left of the top image are links to other images. I’m even unsure, as…

  • Out of Sight

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    Out of Sight is an absolutely beautiful short animation from Taiwan. it is about, among other things, imagination, sensation and the way input from our senses gradually expands our world. It’s also a sublime evocation of a point of view most of us haven’t experienced. This was done by three students from the National Taiwan…