Ninja July 21st, 2008
The Sayama Forest is one of the most remarkable urban forests in Japan, located just outside of Tokyo. This forest is the inspiration for Hayao Miyazaki’s masterpiece, My Neighbor Totoro. With Japan’s rapid urban devleopment in the 70s and 80s, the forest has been losing it’s land. In 1990, Miyazaki (宮崎 駿) ,set up the national trust, Totoro Forest Foundation to preserve this land.
Totoro Forest Project Charity Auction
The benefit auction will be held at Pixar Animation Studios in Emeryville on September 6, 2008. It’s entire proceeds will go to The Totoro Forest National Fund.
Cocktail party from 5 PM to 9 PM.
Totoro Forest Project Special Exhibition
The special exhibition featuring selected work fromt eh auction will be held at the San Francisco Cartoon Art Musum. There will be two separate shows. The first exhibition will fron from September 20–December 7. The second exhibition will run from November 6–February 20.
Some participating artists include
+ Andreas Deja
+ Chris Applehans
+ Daisuke Dice Tsutsumi
+ Francis Vallejo
+ Grace Lee
+ James Jean
+ Jillian Tamaki
+ Louis Clichy
+ Sho Murase
+ William Joyce
Related link
+ Check out the official site for more information on the auction and participating artists
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Tags: Andreas Deja, Chris Applehans, Daisuke Dice Tsutsumi, Exhibitions, Francis Vallejo, Grace Lee, Hayao Miyazaki, James Jean, Jillian Tamaki, Louis Clichy, Pixar Animation Studios, Sho Murase, Totoro Forest Project, William Joyce
Ninja June 26th, 2008
I’ve been meaning to mention Renée French’s blog that she started earlier this year. Every day, she posts a new, delightful drawing!
I especially enjoy her bunny drawings!
I was completely smitten when I first saw her drawing of Glenda, the bunny mascot for Plan 9 from Bell Labs.
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Ninja June 25th, 2008
PIXU
2 part mini series
by Becky Cloonan, Vasilis Lolos, Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá
Special edition, 1000 copies, numbered and signed
Part one will be released on the San Diego Comic Con International. Part two will be out in September.
Purchasing link
+ Pre-order your PIXU copies at KHEPRI
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Ninja June 25th, 2008
This is for my kid brother who’s a fan of Y: The Last Man.
Mr. Brian K. Vaughan is the award-winning creator of Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina
, Pride of Baghdad
and Marvel Comics’ Runaways
. He will be making a signing appearance this Thursday, June 26, 2008 from 5-7 PM at Midtown Comics.
Midtown Comics Grand Central
459 Lexington Avenue (Corner of 45th Street)
New York, NY 10017
212-302-8192
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Ninja June 24th, 2008
Go Team Venture! One of my favorite shows on the Adult Swim lineup is The Venture Brothers. Each Sunday nite, I can be found cracking up on the couch while watching Doctor Venture and his family battle arch-villains.
On his blog, Jersey-based storyboard and design supervisor Stephen DeStefano gives a great tutorial series on how to draw the main characters. Learn how to draw the nerdy, teen heroes Hank and Dean, scragly Dr. Venture, and macho Brock. Thanks, Stephen!
+ Learn how to draw Hank and Dean
+ Learn how to draw Doctor Venture
+ Learn how to draw Brock Samson
Ah, if only he added a Dr. Killinger or Monarch tutorial, too!
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Ninja June 18th, 2008
Jessica Abel and Matt Madden’s Drawing Words & Writing Pictures Book Tour
Secret Headquarters
3817 W. Sunset blvd
Los Angeles, California 90026
Thursday June 19th, 2008
8:00 PM
Drawing Words and Writing Pictures is a course on comics creation that centers on storytelling and concludes with making a finished comic. With chapters on lettering, story structure, and panel layout, the fifteen lessons offered—each complete with homework, extra credit activities, and supplementary reading suggestions—provide a solid introduction for people interested in making their own comics.
Cheers to Ophelia for the tip!
Related links
+ Additional DWWP book tour dates
+ Drawing Words & Writing Pictures website
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Ninja June 18th, 2008
A 3.2 x 2.1 meter (10 x 7 ft) work of Astro Boy pixel art made from 138,000 recycled Tokyo Metro tickets is on temporary display at the Shinjuku Takashimaya Department Store (2nd floor) to mark the opening of Tokyo’s new Fukutoshin subway line. Created by volunteers from Takashimaya and other Shinjuku-area businesses, the work depicts Astro Boy, Uran, Professor Ochanomizu and Higeoyaji (Mr. Mustachio) in Shinjuku along with the new Fukutoshin train.
Via Pink Tentacle
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Ninja June 18th, 2008
Freddie Highmore, Nicolas Cage, Donald Sutherland, Nathan Lane, Bill Nighy, and Eugene Levy are joining the cast of the CG anime movie Astro Boy.
Coming from Imagi Animation Studios in 2009, Astro Boy is based on the iconic character created by the father of anime, Osamu Tezuka. David Bowers (Flushed Away) directs this new full CG-animated motion picture.
Originating as a manga in 1952, the Astro Boy animated television series was first aired in 1963 in Japan and subsequently found great acclaim and success around the world. In the US, it quickly became a top syndicated children’s show.
Set in futuristic Metro City, Astro Boy is about a young robot with incredible powers created by a brilliant scientist in the image of the son he has lost. Unable to fulfill the grieving man’s expectations, our hero embarks on a journey in search of acceptance, experience betrayal and a netherworld of robot gladiators, before he returns to save Metro City and reconcile with the father who had rejected him.
Via Animated News
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Ninja June 12th, 2008
NvP reader, Tiffany Nelson, was kind enough to share her photos from the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit, Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy (which runs until September 1, 2008).
Enjoy!
Cheers to Tiffany!
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