"memory"

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/* A murmur post of Japanese language forum topic */

I really excited about exhibition of Studio Zero at Tokyo, till they have no planning to play ISHINOMORI Shotaro "佐武と市捕物控 (Sabu et Ichi)".

There are none telecastiong and releaced DVD at EU and US : perhaps for too strong sword fight and heavy - a darkside of human - story than "Rurouni Kenshin"

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Resent works of :

ROBOT（La maison en petits cubes, 2008） - Directed by INABA Takuro


Studio Colorido - Japanese Miso soup CM （Maybe using TVPaint FX for sakura & snow storm）

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*This time I do not back to the past.

Ink-and-Ray - SIGGRAPH 2014
　Bas-Relief Meshes for Adding Global Illumination Effects to Hand-Drawn Characters
http://dcgi.felk.cvut.cz/home/sykorad/ink-and-ray.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



I was looking forward to show next "TexToons" announcement from 2011.
Congraduation Professor Daniel Sýkora ( Lazy Brush team ) !

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Transistor Studio full 3DCG anime works

FREEDOM （2008 : planning by OTOMO Katsuhiro）



Kyoto Gakuen University TVCM ( 2014 )
*Kyoto Municipal Transportation Bureau Personification image charactor


Making of ...

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"Space Pirate Captain Herlock / Albator" will return by Manga ( just published today in Japan ).
http://www.akitashoten.co.jp/red

Spoiler : large size cover image :

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RUROUNI KENSHIN "the End of legend" official trailer is coming.





With subtitle Français !

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Long long time ago, I watched "Spitting Image (U.K.)" at satellite broadcasting "over the Sea TV program hours".
Spitting Image (TV Series 1984–1996) - IMDb
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086807/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



It is coincidence that I watched "Les Guignols de l'Info (France)" same TV Program at last week.

Les Guignols de l'Info (The News Puppets)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Guignols_de_l%27info


season 2015

And reminds me when I would like to become apprentice of BUNRAKU, Gerry Anderson or KAWAMOTO Kihachiro's Marionation physical effect stuff...

[CartoonMonkey]

What is a happening for Mercedes-Benz JAPAN ...

http://www.go-gla.jp/gla_mario/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

After Mercedes and Mario, Peugeot and Wacky-Racers (aka "Les fous du volant" in French) !

http://www.themill.com/work/peugeot/wacky-racers.aspx" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

This is AWESOME!

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Sr. SDE Nelson Chou of Microsoft seems to start next "MoXi Digital Paint : Detail-Preserving Paint Modeling for 3D Brushes" project.
http://www.expresii.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;





Yay! This is my favorite laid paper texture of "Sumi-e (Ink wash painting)", notebook and croquis paper with Sumi-e dry brush.

Spoiler : Do you remember MoXi, Microsoft Gustav and Microsoft FreshPaint ? :

MoXi
http://visgraph.cse.ust.hk/MoXi/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.expresii.com/moxi-paint-engine.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Microsoft Research "Gustav"
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/gustav/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Microsoft Fresh Paint
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/freshpaint/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I have friendly feelings toward to MoXi Paint engine as one of "Sumi-e" scribbler ; Without "for Windows only" *sigh*
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Sr. Chou posted Chinese calligraphy demo.

[Fabrice]

I didn't know that Nelson Chou was preparing a software at Microsoft.
I tried Moxi some years ago and thought Adobe purchased the technology.

Interesting, thanks for the input.

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This article URL from MdN Online that I posted Japanese language topic "physics for Japan Illust expression" official sample.



Physics for Japanese illust expression | Material : water
http://www.mdn.co.jp/di/articles/3289/ (written in Japanese)

Spoiler : include ANIME illustration :

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Do you remember "I, Robot" based Isaac Asimov's same short story ?



SYNTHETIC HUMAN 1000 toys
by TOA Heavy Industries (A 1/6 scale Action, dessin and Pose model toy : Asian male proportion)


Using case ( I know many stop motion picture artist use theirself Ball-jointed flame)


Review（Written in English)
http://thetoychronicle.com/reviews/synt ... ingreview/


*Can not using with any 3DCG software like QUMARION.

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Microsoft official Internet Explorer Personification Animation (2013).
http://www.internetexplorertan.com/home


Made with CACANi for Windows (Singapore CACANi Animation), hand drawing based motion complements, semi-auto coloring software.

Spoiler : for Mac OSX Mavericks :

Hanepen beta
hand drawing based motion complements, semi-auto coloring and "CUT" (Storyboard) support tool
http://haneproject.com/hanepen/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; (written in Japanese, "Hanepen" means "A quill")

Spoiler : :

Sample (gif animation)


http://cii-1.tumblr.com/ (Animation.gif)
https://twitter.com/cii__/media (Animation.swf)

→

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from SIGGRAPH ASIA 2015, Kobe Japan


Autocomplete hand-drawn animations

This work is in collaboration with Jun and Li-Yi from University of Hong Kong, Shigenori Takaaki from Microsoft Research and Koji Yatani, Ph.D. from The University of Tokyo.

Publication:
http://www.liyiwei.org/papers/workflow-siga15/
http://www.yatani.jp/ ( written in English /Japanese )

( Narration : Alex from OS X "Text to Speech" North American English Voice )

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Finaly I found it at EMI / Universal Music Youtube official channel.
David Bowie - Underground (1986)


Directed by Steve Barron (a~ha "Take on Me") with rotoscope.