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Anime Architecture: Exhibition Showcases Japan’s Fictional Buildings

03 Aug

[ By SA Rogers in Art & Drawing & Digital. ]

Visions of fictional cities – whether optimistic, realistic, fantastical or dystopian – tend to take on a haze of mystery and grandiosity in Japanese anime, as epitomized in ‘Ghost in the Shell.’ Dark jumbles of nearly-identical skyscrapers lurk over the protagonists in futuristic metropolises, often emphasizing feelings of desolation, industrialization and technology run amok. If you’ve ever sighed over a particularly incredible work of fictional architecture, you might be interested in an exhibition currently on display at London’s House of Illustration.

‘Anime Architecture: Backgrounds of Japan’ is the first UK exhibition of architectural illustrations for classic anime films, featuring over 100 technical drawings and watercolor illustrations. Most of these works come from series that debuted or were most popular during the anime heyday of the 1990s, including Hiromasa Ogura’s paintings for ‘Ghost in the Shell’, Takashi Watanebe’s pencil drawings from Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence and work from the films ‘Patlabor: The Movie’ (1989) and ‘Metropolis’ (2001) by Mamoru Oshii and Atsushi Takeuchi.

Sure, there are great anime works that came after these with fictional architecture that’s just as beautiful, but these days, artists use computer animation instead of hand-painting the backgrounds. In an interview with It’s Nice That, curator Stefan Riekeles explains that it took quite a bit of nudging and late-night meetings at bars to convince the artists that people would want to see these works outside the context of the films, and that they’d translate well to gallery walls.

“[Ghost in the Shell], released 1995, was the continuation of [director Mamoru Oshii’s] reflection of the Asian mega-city, which he started with Patlabor in 1989 and continued after Ghost in the Shell: Innocence in 2004. Patlabor is set in a realistic urban depiction of Tokyo. Innocence is located in a purely fictional Asian world. The world of Ghost in the Shell is a hybrid of these poles.”

“The idea was to evoke a feeling of submerging into the deep levels of the city, where a flood of information overflows the human senses and a lot of noise surrounds the people. The artists were looking for an expression of a crowded space. They found a blueprint for such a place in Hong Kong, which is exotic enough for a Japanese audience to evoke a feeling of alienation and strangeness but familiar enough to relate their daily life to.”

Anime Architecture: Backgrounds of Japan will be open through September 10th, 2017 at the House of Illustration in King’s Cross.

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[ By SA Rogers in Art & Drawing & Digital. ]

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Uncle Yo at New York Anime Fesvial (5 of 5)

30 Nov

Uncle yo is the man, and he put one a great show at New York Anime Festival. I apologize for cutting out at the end my camera was over heating. Apparently the D90 was not meant to take an hour of video all at once. Also I missed 2 jokes. The first one was how many bottles of hair jell, OVER 9000!!! The second was when he was playing with the feedback of the mic on the floor and “he found the sound village” Part 1 www.youtube.com Part 2 www.youtube.com Part 3 www.youtube.com Part 4 www.youtube.com Part 5 www.youtube.com Go see his pages Official Site www.uncleyo.com Myspace www.myspace.com
Video Rating: 4 / 5

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Uncle Yo at New York Anime Fesvial (4 of 5)

26 Nov

Uncle yo is the man, and he put one a great show at New York Anime Festival. I apologize for cutting out at the end my camera was over heating. Apparently the D90 was not meant to take an hour of video all at once. Also I missed 2 jokes. The first one was how many bottles of hair jell, OVER 9000!!! The second was when he was playing with the feedback of the mic on the floor and “he found the sound village” Part 1 www.youtube.com Part 2 www.youtube.com Part 3 www.youtube.com Part 4 www.youtube.com Part 5 www.youtube.com Go see his pages Official Site www.uncleyo.com Myspace www.myspace.com

Tommy Emmanuel – Rietberg / Germany – 2012/08/25 Improvised medley of: Stevie’s Blues – Purple Haze – Guitar Boogie Please excuse the shaky camera work. Long tele lens, handheld and standing. Nikon D90, therefore mono sound only and limited to 5 min. Had to re-start it and blend the 1st clip into a 2nd. But captured the magic of the moment anyway …

 
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Coloring and inking Anime Chibi in Photoshop CS5

03 Nov

adr650.deviantart.com trying out CS5 Photoshop, scanned from a ballpoint pen sketch. No copyright infringement intended music is By gigi’ Agostino – I’ll fly with you I do not own or claim to own this music this video is just a tribute to anime, manga , chibi and gigi’s music I hav a couple of artworks at Deviant Art adr650.deviantart.com

 
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Enhancing eyes tutorial for anime

03 Nov

A tutorial on how to edit and enhance eye color and contrast. I figured this out on my own. [: Hope it helps. Facebook:www.facebook.com Formspring:www.formspring.me xatspace.com/xLeda Add me as a friend on xat? /f350371218 I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THE MUSIC IN THIS VIDEO
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Uncle Yo at New York Anime Fesvial (1 of 5)

29 Oct

Uncle yo is the man, and he put one a great show at New York Anime Festival. I apologize for cutting out at the end my camera was over heating. Apparently the D90 was not meant to take an hour of video all at once. Also I missed 2 jokes. The first one was how many bottles of hair jell, OVER 9000!!! The second was when he was playing with the feedback of the mic on the floor and “he found the sound village” Part 1 www.youtube.com Part 2 www.youtube.com Part 3 www.youtube.com Part 4 www.youtube.com Part 5 www.youtube.com Go see his pages Official Site www.uncleyo.com Myspace www.myspace.com

 
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Anime Reloaded – School Dance

18 Dec

Saya attends her first “School Dance” in this latest PSA. Anime Reloaded is a comedic spin on a classic anime title. Think MST3K meets Monty Python. We take Blood: The Last Vampire’s Saya and feature her in a series of hilarious Public Service Announcements. Featuring the voice talents of YouTube’s LisaNova and KassemG. Visit www.manga.com to see them all!
Video Rating: 4 / 5

 

Anime Reloaded – Depression

10 Nov

Saya warns us on the danger signs of “Depression” in this latest PSA. Anime Reloaded is a comedic spin on a classic anime title. Think MST3K meets Monty Python. We take Blood: The Last Vampire’s Saya and feature her in a series of hilarious Public Service Announcements. Featuring the voice talents of YouTube’s LisaNova and KassemG. Visit www.manga.com to see them all!