Sucks or Rules

有個新的網站專搵嘢來比試，讓網民投票來分勝負。各式各樣項目都有，如 Google vs Yahoo、PS3 vs Xbox360、 Roadkill vs Happy Tree Friends etc. 有d都幾無聊...
其中一項是 : Live Action TMNT vs CGI TMNT
到我post這為止，結果是 90% : 10%.... (79 vote) ，未完結的，有興趣的可以 Reg做 memeber改投一票。 SucksorRules.com

TMNT Wal-Mart Promotional Poster

An image of a poster to be used in a potential Easter 2008 Wal-Mart promotion. more turtle news at: the-5th-turtle.blogspot.com

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just a loose painting with all my beloved elements:
robot + white + orange + circles + close up + graphic front view...

Kung Fu Panda Teaser Poster

做齣好戲...

這段時間一直在想，究竟 Production Management 的精義是什麼 ?
其實不就是這個嗎?
Give the best to the "show" within the budget !

所有管理上如人手及資源上的安排都是基於這個前設。做齣好戲...

New Astro-boy website

A new Astro-boy website called http://astro-boy.rightstuf.com/
There are many stuffs about classic Astro-boy , take a look.

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Gatcha-Links

I did some research on Gatchaman before, i share the links i found for all Gatchaman fans:

Gatchaman Movies
● Imagi Official Sites
http://www.imagi.com.hk/web/
Go to top menu and click [Our Films], then click [Gatchaman]

● Gatchaman Movies on Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_Ninja_Team_Gatchaman_%28film%29

● ScFi Japan's Gatchaman Movie Report
http://www.scifijapan.com/articles/2006/06/10/gatchaman-returns-to-the-big-screen/

● Gatchaman on IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0818257/

● ADV official Gatchaman official site
http://www.advfilms.com/titles/gatchaman/

Gatchaman General
● Gatchaman on Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatchaman

● 科学忍者隊ガッチャマン at japan wikipedia
http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=29992049&postID=1807063893685469679

● Tatsunoko Database
http://www.tatsunoko.co.jp/tatsunocomm/Database/Gatchaman/gatcha.html

Artists
● Amano, the orginal Gatchaman Character Designer
http://www.amanosworld.com/

● Alex Ross's Battle of Planet Gallery
http://www.alexrossart.com/artforsale.asp?sc=ARBP1

Fans Site

● Gatchablog from Wendy, lots of Gatchaman news
http://gatchablog.blogspot.com/

● Gatchaman- Home of the White Shadow
http://www.chronicsite.com/gatchaman/

● Kagaku Ninja Tai Gatchaman
http://www.vacuform.com/Gatchaman/GatchMain.htm

● Gatchamania.net, fan art and forum
http://www.gatchamania.net/

● Veronika's Gatchaman page
http://www.gatchaman.com/

● Gatchaman Link List
http://www.ajpmak.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/a/g/

● Kena's Gatchaman Base (Taiwan)
http://gatchaman.tw/

● Kagaku Ninja-Tai Gatchaman (anime) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=4

● Utoland Chronicle
http://www.utolandcity.com/

● Transmute! Gatchaman
http://www.gatchonline.com/

● Tatsunoko Fan Club USA
http://www.tatsunokousa.com/

● Jun's Joint
http://junsjoint.com/


Related
● Gatchabin
http://gatchapin.com/

To be continued...

Imagi Animation's AstroBoy

◎Shown above is the still of the new CGI AstroBoy (from imagi internal teaser version only). It does not reflect the final look of AstroBoy.

Jakob Jensen Talks AstroBoy

"For Danish-born animator Jakob Jensen, to animate Japan's classic manga "AstroBoy" at Hong Kong's Imagi Animation Studio seems like a difficult challenge, despite his background at DreamWorks. After all, AstroBoy is virtually a national treasure of Japan, but far less well known in the rest of the world. But Jensen has confidence that he can make "AstroBoy" fly.

" 'I want to apply my DreamWorks experience and implement philosophies I learned at that company into the work flow and the pipeline of the studio in Hong Kong to make AstroBoy as empathic in the U.S. as he is in Japan," said Jensen, 32, the animation acting director for "AstroBoy" at Imagi.".........
Source: The Holywood Reporter
● JAKOB JENSEN NAMED ANIMATION DIRECTOR ON IMAGI'S “ASTROBOY”
● News on Twitch
● imagi official website

"拗柴"

打籃波是我唯一的運動。一向打波都很少"剷籃"、"爆籃"、甚至入籃底搶籃板。原因如下︰
1. 懶... 2. 身形力量技術都唔夠... 3. 害怕與別人交換體液... 4. 最大的原因是儘量減少身體撞而受傷，年紀大身體壞，每次受傷都很長手尾...

意外始終是意外，在你最估計不到的情況下發生....
昨晚打波在幾無厘頭的情況下"拗柴"！Damn! 今早起來，完全不能行走。原本安排的工作，全都被打亂了。一下"拗柴"，就馬上換來金錢及時間上的損失.....幸好有買保險，最討厭還是要在超忙的日子天天抽時間做物理治療。超痳煩呀!!

對上一次意外是一年前，又是打籃波"吉魚蛋"，竟然可以"吉"到手指骨裂，做了個幾月物理治療.... 嗚~嗚~嗚~嗚~嗚~

TMNT Up for Scream Award

The CG-animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles feature, TMNT, is listed among the contenders for the second annual Scream Awards, a two-hour event that will recognize the best in horror, sci-fi, fantasy and comic books next month in Los Angeles. The ceremony will tape on Friday, Oct. 19, at the Greek Theatre, and will premiere on Viacom’s Spike TV on Tuesday, Oct. 23 at 10 p.m. (ET/PT). No host has yet been announced to succeed actor Samuel L. Jackson, who presided over last year’s festivities.

Animated by Imagi, the Weinstein Co./Warner Bros. release TMNT has been nominated for Best Comic-to-Screen Adaptation. Based on the comics by Peter Laird and Kevin Munroe, the movie is up against Warner Bros.’ 300, 20th Century Fox’s Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Paramount’s Ghost Rider and Sony/Columbia Pictures’ Spiderman 3.

Warner Bros. came out ahead of all other studios with a total of 20 nominations. Adapted from the graphic novel by Frank Miller, 300 leads the pack with 12 nominations, including The Ultimate Scream, Breakout Performance (Rodrigo Santoro), Most Vile Villain (Rodrigo Santoro), Most Memorable Mutilation and Best Director (Zack Snyder). Grindhouse and Spider-Man 3 tied for second with 11 noms each.....
source: animation magazine

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Reebok x Voltron

Reebok Voltron Lion Force Pack
Reebok is going strong this year with many different releases and here is a preview of their latest project. Their latest series is the Voltron Lion Force Pack which consist of five different shoes that is inspired by an early eighties Japanese animation called Voltron. All the colorways of the shoes in this pack are inspired by a character in this animation and the materials used are mainly patent leather and leather. Animation inspired sneakers just might be the new thing as Nike will be dropping the Transformers Air Trainer III and now Reebok with these. Watch for these Voltron sneakers to drop this Fall in October. Voltron is of course one of the better cartoons / toy lines from the 80’s and if you’re unfamiliar with the show then please just move along because these sneaks won’t interest you. For the rest of us each pair in this line is colored and patterned according to each of the 5 lions in the cartoon. The shoes include the Court Victory for the black lion, the Pump Omni Lite for the yellow lion, the Ventilator for the blue lion, the ERS Racer for the green lion and the Insta Pump Fury for the red lion. It’s also rumored that each pair will include the corresponding figure basically forcing nostalgic collectors to buy each one in order to complete their Voltron collection. (Optionally you can just grab the Voltron 20th Anniversary Masterpiece Edition like yours truly recently received for his birthday.)

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隨意揮筆遊走， 腦海裏不斷4字。粗糙的質感、混濁的顏色、不清潔的黑影、一點暖色是一點希望吧！

50's live-action Astro boy

the Flying Astro boy

This is the Clips from live action Japanese Astro Boy I found on Youtube Astroboy looks really.... "awesome..." (you can see clips of Gigantor TV shows as well)

當年真人版的Astro Boy實在太靚仔了，那個比例很有趣...

In 1962, MBS released a Live Action movie, a compilation film made up of episodes from the 1959-60 live action TV series that came before the 60's animated television series which loosely followed the manga. The opening sequence (around 1 minute) is an anime type animation, and the rest is a Black and White movie. The whole movie lasts for 1h15m. Wikipedia

Gatchaman Film Poster

© 2007 Tatsunoko Production Co. Ltd. / Imagi International Holdings Ltd.

AstroBoy Film Poster

© 2007 Tezuka Productions Co. Ltd. / Imagi International Holdings Ltd.

Gatchaman and AstroBoy Get Distribution

IMAGI ANIMATION STUDIOS ENTERS INTO GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT WITH WARNER BROS. PICTURES AND THE WEINSTEIN COMPANY
Hong Kong (September 27, 2007) – Warner Bros. Pictures, The Weinstein Company and Imagi Animation Studios agreed upon principal terms for the worldwide distribution of the feature films Gatchaman and AstroBoy. The announcement was jointly made by Jeff Robinov, President, Production, Warner Bros. Pictures; Harvey Weinstein of The Weinstein Company; Imagi Co-CEOs Douglas Glen and Francis Kao; and brokered by The William Morris Agency.
The new pact builds on the success of TMNT, Imagi’s first theatrical motion picture, also distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Weinstein Company. TMNT opened in March 2007 at the top of the U.S. box office.
“ Imagi is breaking new ground with big action pictures done entirely in CG animation,” said Robinov. “It’s an exciting new genre, with the potential of attracting big mass market audiences.”
“TMNT had the kind of beautifully choreographed action sequences you’d expect from Hong Kong animators,” said Weinstein. “The next two films will confirm Imagi’s reputation as the world’s leading action hero animation studio.”
“We are delighted to be allied with the marketing and distribution power of Warner Bros. Pictures and The Weinstein Company,” said Glen. Added Kao, “We’re making Hollywood-style movies with Hong Kong-style excitement and stories that are fusions of Western and Asian themes.”
Read more....

希望明天有好事發生。

今天接二連三的地收到壞消息，是EQ的突擊測驗嗎 ?
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餐搵餐食餐餐清；鑊鑊新鲜鑊鑊堅...
無貨無電捱得幾天？
周街屎如噴泉日日掃不完。
♪ ~~唔駛理我，我發開口夢、
天天難過天天過.... ♪
唱下歌、緩和一下情緒啫... ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

希望明天有好事發生。