Jokebox

At last on Air!

One year and a half ago I worked for the spanish CG studio "Kotoc". During my short time there I had the chance to animate a 3 minutes long sketch for this funny animation series: "Jokebox".

As you can see in the episode below, the animation style is extremely snappy and cartoonish, going from pose to pose with bursts of movements, trying to avoid as much inbetweens as possible.

My animation style is usually closer to kind of "emphasized realism" so it was really tough to me to adapt to this particular style.

Anyway, I have to confess that I'm pretty satisfied with the final result because when watching the whole episode, all the sketches look like they have been animated by the same 'nimator.

PS: My sketch is "String"(min.10)

A Documentary about Alberto Mielgo

I recently found this great documentary about Alberto Mielgo. Besides being an awesome painter, Alberto is, in some way, my boss. He is the art director of Tron Uprising, tha animated series that
I've been involved in this last year which will air around mid 2012 (very optimistic from my point of view).
Is very funny that this guy approves my animation shots in L.A., I think I never had such an open minded boss. I guess you can't never be a visionary if your art is not provocative and lawbreaker enough.
In this documentary you can see Alberto talking about his art and actually see him in one of his painting sessions with Belladona, a world famous pornstar.
Please watch it, you won't regret, I swear.

Sunset at Rainbow Bridge

Today, coming back from amazing Tokyo Motor Show 2011 I had to cross Rainbow bridge.
The day was clear enough to see Mt.Fuji from Tokyo so I took this picture where you can see the sweeping cone from a great distance.

Akihabara Electric Town

It's been a while since I've been thinking about a post regarding to awesome Akihabara district (秋葉原電気街) aka Electric Town, one of the most famous zones of Tokyo because it's the major shopping area for electronic, computer, anime, and otaku goods, including new and used items.

Last week I decided to buy a Super Famicom, so I took my camera and headed to "Akiba" wondering If I would be able to find a legendary store called "Super Potato"( スーパーポテト), a retro gaming heaven, a true Mecca for all the old school videogamers where you can find anything from Pong to PSX. Finally I reached the place and here you can find some pictures I took of it and it's surrondings.

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Akihabara main street Chuodori

Otaku subculture at it's most

Yeah!! I Found it!!

The Big Potato is watching you 

Stairway to Heaven

3rd Floor mainly stands for Famicom & SuperFamicom

These ones are like the good wine, they just get better.

passageways of Soto Kanda 1-chōme

Kyoto

Last weekend I had the chance to visit Kyoto 京都 , one of the most beautiful cities in the world and the former capital of Japan until 1869, right after Bakumatsu or the final days of Edo period, a really interesting time where finally Japan ended its isolationist foreign policy.
I read somewhere that Kyoto was one of the main objectives of US goverment during WWII as the target of his infamous atomic bomb because it was the actual intellectual center of Japan and its population could better understand the significance of this weapon.  As we all know today, the bomb was drop in two other cities and today we can admire Kyoto's monuments almost as they were 800 years ago.
Here there are some pics I took during these 3 days, pics that show the most traditional face of this captivating and both lively city.

Okinawa

Few weeks ago I went to Okinawa to spend my summer vacations. For those who are not used to japanese geography, Okinawa is the southern most part of Japan, consists of hundreds of islands that extends more than 1000 km away from kyushu island.

Particularly we went to main Okinawa island, Tokashiki island (part of the kerama archipelago) and finally to Miyako-jima, only 400km away from Taiwan. Miyako is a paradise of white sand beaches and strong alcohol called awamori. These pictures are just a humble sample of what we saw during these 8 days in the paradise. Enjoy.