Mean Twins

little break from drawing not familiar character types. Drawing kids is so much fun!!!

Children who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below(星を追う子ども) Review

I've just watched Makoto Shinkai's(known for 5 Centimeters per Second)

new feature anime film, Children who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below.

here's Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T37GhIqsO28

Same as 5 Centimeters per Second, it shows lots of really well painted

background and I could see how Shinkai really focuses on making a

beautiful picture. Every frame got nice lighting and composition,

so beautiful.

There was big difference in story comparing to his old films. He often

showed somehow realistic and nostalgic love stories, but this time, it

was ghibli-like adventure story which is good for family. Personally,

I like this one better because it's so simple and got happy ending(some

people might say different opinion about ending but I assume as that).

5 Centimeter per Second is kinda depressing for me...

I could smell Ghibli-ish style from trailer like character designs, but

it really had Ghibli's influence than I thought. Some points I noticed are

how character's hair reacts with character's emotion(think of Nausicaa,

when she got mad in the scene when her dad was killed) , and how

character eats.(specifically, how character chews. It really reminded me

of Ghibli) These factors made me feel like this film is less original.

Overall, I really satisfied with this film. I think it was really well

animated for whole film and got good actings for anime. All technical

things aside, I could enjoy this film until the end without getting bored.

At least it was good enough to make me cry. I've watched several new

feature animes since I backed to Japan, and this one is the best so far.

I don't know when it's shown in US or Canada, but animators should

watch it. totally worth it.

Sexy(?) Girl

I'm trying to get various character types as possible as I can! I tried

"sexy character" this time but I think it's not sexy enough...

Tough Guy

Random character I developed from my sketches. It's so tough to draw guy for me...

Dancing Girl

This is the experimental illustration using painting software SAI.

This took me less than 1 hour, it was really handy than I expected.

Really nice software for line drawing I felt.

Illustrations Feb~April2011

Here's a page of random character illustrations I've done recently.

I'm experimenting with markers for coloring. I like it so far.

Sketches March~April 2011