T28 Teaser Characters

We uploaded The Tetsujin28 Teaser Website few months ago for audience comment and we collect a lot of positive feedback from international, as I checked the survey at 2 months a go, more than 80% vote that they want this movie to be made.
The website is still online, but I am not sure when will it be shut down. I love that project a lot. Here I captured the character images from the website (just in case the website disappear suddenly) I keep this for our memory.


I like Black OX redesign!



I do not satisfy with the human character design, as we reused and modified some of the existing asset to reduce cost... He turn out much more realistic than we expected, yes, he looks like a Harry Porter, this is one of idea on designing him. If I have chance, I will make him more stylize and less photo realistic.



Visit the website
You can also watch that at youtube or download the teaser from the website, check the information from my previous post

I still hope it can made someday in the future...

Happy Chinese New Year

4D Process

Read more details about 4D process at under the influence of design

Playsam

Wow, Like the simplicity of form and color.


you can see more interesting design via beautiful life

Vegeterrible

Vegeterrible from Henrik Sønniksen on Vimeo.

Better Together

"Better Together" for Match.com from FriendsWithYou on Vimeo.

Happy Valentine Day!!

Color Theory Poster

This is a cool infographic-esque poster with the summary of color theory. It is a good tool for designer to communicate with client. [via]

Sitent imagi studios

I feel very complicated. I left the studio I have been working for 10 years, I still cannot 100% accept the fact of the Imagi Studios end like this. I witness all the changes from day 1....
Today imagi staff go back to studios to meet Labour departmant. Office just like a mess , everyone packing and shipping their own belongs... these pictures are taken by Wicky one of my colleague, the HR manager who turned off the last lamp of imagi studios..


23F Reception area


23F Character Modeling department



23F surfacing despartment


22F Training Centre/Muti Purpose Room


21F Lighting Deapatment


22F Development Team


22F M.I.S and RnD

To all the imagian, I am reall glad to work with you together, we had lots of fun and we are pround of what we make. Take care and Don't give up CG and animation!!! Hope we can work together again. >_<

Imagi Studios... silent....

意馬...

去年搬上銀幕的動畫電影《阿童木》，票房欠理想，其所屬的製作公司Imagi Production Limited，被總公司「意馬國際控股」撤回財務資助，宣佈清盤，而日後有關數碼製作將會外判，二百五十名員工頓時淪為失業大軍，立法會議員李卓人估 計，連同欠薪、代通知金和遣散費，涉及一千萬元，批評「意馬」以外判形式「甩身」，不負責任，星期三將與員工會面，不排除發起靜坐行動。

上市公司意馬國際控股有限公司在港交所刊登公告指，為保存其有限流動資金及股東價值，宣佈撤回今年一月起，對其附屬公司Imagi Production Limited作出的財務資助，變相令子公司清盤，集團已於去年十二月終止聘用若干員工，目前餘下二百五十名員工，除留聘部份人才外，其他將不獲聘用。source:
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上市公司意馬國際控股有限公司旗下炮製港產動畫電影《阿童木》的意馬動畫工作室，上周向三百多名員工宣布清盤，更表明無力支付遣散費及賠償，要求員工申請 破產欠薪基金，但至今未有交代詳情。協助員工的工聯會指，部分員工年資長達十年，初步計算欠薪連同代通知金及遣散費高達三千六百萬元，破欠基金需墊支達二 千萬元，批評母公司意馬國際不應袖手旁觀，刻意逃避責任將破欠基金當作提款機，促請勞工處調查事件。
意馬國際（00585）昨日發出公告，表示會裁減旗下負責動畫製作的附屬公司大部分人手，亦會向法院申請臨時清盤人，未來公司數碼製作部分會外判予 中國或其他地區的公司。該附屬公司共有二百五十名員工，除了部分在動畫製作具系統知識及經驗的專家外，其餘皆不會再聘用。意馬昨日股價大跌15.3%至 0.105元。

近三百員工昨出席工聯會召開的會員大會，選出七名代表處理遣散賠償問題，工會明日與員工代表往公司位於柴灣的辦事處，計劃在勞工處介入下與意馬動畫及臨時清盤人開會，交代清盤及賠償安排，並希望發放一部分賠償讓員工度過年關。

"工聯會葉偉明指，管理層表明要求員工申請破欠基金，批評母公司意馬國際明顯推卸責任，將基金當作為提款機，估計基金需為事件墊支高達二千萬元，認為意馬國際即使結束旗下附屬公司亦有責任照顧員工，促請勞工處調查是否有人刻意逃避責任，濫用破欠基金。

香港I.T.人協會會長彭兆威表示，現時香港約有二千多名動畫製作人員，分布於包括意馬等三間大型動畫製作公司，今次事件重大打擊本港動畫行業，亦相信會窒礙本港創意工業發展"。source: orientaldaily

HK Studio Behind 'TMNT,' 'Astro Boy' Shuts Down | abc news

Fiat 500 AD

New print Ad of Fiat 500. It depicts various animals in the vehicle and revolves around the low impact of the car on the environment by reducing emissions of CO2.

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MINI Cooper Big 50 Design Competition

In their 7th design competition, MINI Space, the urban initiative and creative networking site by MINI, asked people to create an image that said "The Big 50" to celebrate 50 years of the MINI Cooper.

First Prize (an Apple Macbook Pro) - "Ancient Rider" by Rasha zones: Second Prize (a Canon Digital Camera) - "Direccion Obligada" by gas_77 Third Prize ( a 1 pair of SUPERFUTURE sunglasses) - "Road 50" by giampy535

Goodbye Imagi Crew

Imagi disappear in the world start from tomorrow?... Imagi Provisional Winding-up today. lay-off the rest of 300+ people animators. Everyone have to pack all the belongs and leave today. Animators lose the job before the Chinese New Year, thats bad!! That will be a huge impact to HK animation industry development. Imagi studios 面臨暫時性清盤. 期望有白武士拯救, 大量動畫師及製作人員面臨失業...

AdLand

Adland the movie for Circle Creative. There are lots of adverts, how many you spot within the video? Thanks Sindy for sending me this.

"See Through" “打，打个大西瓜”

This creative and impressive 16 mins short animation is created by a Chinese animator named Jokelate. He spent 3 years to complete this animation by himself. “See Through” is an animate with an anti-war theme with unique style. The Cimera movment is wonderful and the rhythm is very professional, love it. It was very hot in China animation field now. Enjoy “打，打个大西瓜”





[via] More infomation about “打，打个大西瓜”
Jokelate’s “See Through” Video Animation Made in China

Yona Yona Penguin

Yona Yona Penguin, directed by Rintaro which is the first computer animated theatrical production directed by noted anime company MADHOUSE Studios, aims to be a gentle stimulation of both childhood panic and anticipation. The final product of which sports high-quality texture design and a benevolent reliance upon settings that may as well have taken place in a European fairytale.

Reportedly produced on a budget ranging at USD $12-$13 million or slightly higher, Yona Yona Penguin comes in at a few obvious pegs lower than computer animated flicks typically emerging from western territories with greater resources at their disposal.



Japan Trailer

I just know that the animated CG animated movie was already released in Japan December 2009. Actaully we have worked a little bitt on this project at the very beginning. [via] [previous post]

Imagi Closed LA Office

I've just come back from vacation and heard about the bad news about imagi... Imagi LA Office closed down last Saturday on 23 Jan, more information can be found on Anime News Network.
I feel very sad and sorry about that, and I hope HK office can still going well, I have lots of friends are still working there, if imagi closed down, they are not only going to lose the job, but also the "career". I don't really want that happen. I don't want to say anything bad more about that.... I better shut up and let this illustration express what my feeling...

Good luck...

Mimushi

This is based on the Series 1 wooden figures by Mimushi. Each one of which is hand-crafted and one-of-a-kind. The materials used for the figures are all natural so it’s really environmentally-friendly.

Graffiti art by Meggs

Emotional Graffiti art Australian artist Meggs. His early artistic development was influenced by the cartoons, comics & sci-Fi films of the 1980’s. Fuelling his vivid imagination and creating a passion for superheroes, fantasy characters and bold colourful graphics, such as those found on toy packaging and video covers. This soon developed into a passion for skateboarding culture and interest in graffiti art and graphic design.

Meggs’ work references the nostalgia of childhood heroes and villains, exploring the notion of ‘duality’ and an on-going question of morals, rights and authorities. Reflecting on personal experience Meggs produces energetic depictions of heroes, villains, and subverted collages of pop culture symbology. You can check more his work on his website/blog, in addition, you’ll find plenty more work on his Flickr

Stephanie Metz

Stephanie Metz is a sculptor whose innovative work in felted wool has garnered international attention. Her sculpture, focused on the relationship between humans and the natural world, fuses sharp wit, thoughtful observation, and careful craftsmanship in an unusual material to blur the line between art and science, natural and unnatural, organic and man-made.

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Sculpture and Installation by Julie Levesque

Through sculpture and installation, Julie Levesque has been building a body of work that is primarily concerned with motion and the fluid transformation of energy into inanimate objects. The imprint of this emotion distorts their shapes creating a narrative of the essence of the people who have had contact with them. Slumped, eroded or enlarged, emotion/energy is made visible in ways that never physically show in the body but reside there nonetheless. Working almost exclusively in white, she creates tension and contradiction by draining the color out of these energized objects.

Shark Soup

A shark in my soup bowl by Apostolos Porsanidis. Love it, nice design.

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The Aquarium Phone Booth

Artists Benoit Deseille and Benedetto Bufalino transformed an ordinary phone booth into a lit up aquarium during Lyon Light Festival in France. The artists said: “With the advent of the mobile telephone, telephone booths lie unused. We rediscover this glass cage transformed into an aquarium, full of exotically coloured fish; an invitation to escape and travel.“

via: The Pirata

AstroBoy Tin Toy Chick

I found these AstroBoy Tin Chick on ebay. They are total with 30, look nice but actually I don't know who produced them and I wonder it got officially licensed or not...

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