
The 59-foot-tallTetsujin 28 iron statue is still working in progress in Kobe.0
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Blip from Sean Mullen on Vimeo.
A short 3d animated film about Two aliens try to take over the same planet. Produced by Ben Harper and Sean Mullen in our 3rd year at the Irish School of Animation. COPYRIGHT Ben Harper Sean Mullen © 2008And this white one that has the Gatchaman logo on the front.
It also has silhouettes of the team on the back.
These are 2 Gatchaman Tee you can find in ULIQO now. The design is simple. I bought the whie one, you can see lots of imagi animators wearing this, cool!







The Runner -Exploit yourself- from BLR_VFX on Vimeo.
MakingOf -Exploit Yourself- from BLR_VFX on Vimeo.
This is great!

“I play Cora, who is a girl who befriends Astro when he comes down from Metro City onto the surface of Earth,” Bell told SciFi Wire. “She runs a little kind of like Peter Pan group of kids. She’s pretty tough, pretty sassy.”
Cora (Kristen Bell) befriends Astro Boy
And despite being a self-professed fan of a lot of genre properties, Bell admits she was a novice when it came to the universe of “AstroBoy.”
“I didn’t know Astro Boy at all, but now I’m immersed and have all the little toys and stuff,” she said.
As for the movie, which will debut some footage at the upcoming San Diego ComicCon, Bell says she’s seen a lot of the movie and that it looks fantastic.
“It looks amazing,” she said. “To be involved in the process is really exciting, because you see the layers that they put on, and you see when they don’t have the 3-D involved and then when they do, and you see when it’s just penciled out. It was a really interesting process.”
Bell is best-known for her work on two television series. She played the title character on “Veronica Mars” and had a recurring role as Elle on “Heroes.” She also starred in the just-released-on-DVD movie “Fanboys” where she memorably dressed up in the famous metal bikini from “Return of the Jedi.”
ChinaToon bows on July 5 on Nickelodeon Asia with two acclaimed animation series -- Creative Power Entertaining's "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" (原創動力文化傳播的喜羊羊與灰太郎) and Zhejiang Zhongnan Group Animation Video's "Magic Wonderland (中南卡通影視的魔幻仙踪)," which will be broadcast to 13 territories across Asia.
"Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" is a comedy for kids 4-9, while "Magic Wonderland" is an action adventure aimed at the 5-12 set. source: Variety, China Daily

We have seen lots of footage of Japan's “life-size Gundam” in Odaiba now. But how much have you seen of the 18-meter-tall “life-size” Gigantor (or Tetsujin-28) statue in Kobe?
The Kobe statue-- in commemoration of the city's revival after the 1995 earthquake –is a permanent fixture unlike Gundam which is going to be short-lived but moves and lights up.The Tetsujin-28 statue isn't up yet (its official installation opening is October 4th, after the Gundam gets taken down)
AnimeNewsNetwork-reports: "The parts of the 59-foot-tall statue will be transported to the final site at Kobe's Wakamatsu Park for assembly at the end of July. It was scheduled to be constructed in August, but its completion is now planned for the end of September with a ceremony on October 4. (The initial plans called for a spring 2008 opening.) ... Unlike the Gundam statue, the Tetsujin 28-gō statue will be a permanent installation with no moving parts."
"The Kobe Tetsujin Project's statue is intended as a symbol of the city's revival after the 1995 Kobe Earthquake. It is being build in Nagata Ward, the city's hardest hit neighborhood which has since been rebuilt and revitalized. The statue also celebrates the life of one of Kobe's most well-known native sons, as Yokoyama not only created the Tetsujin 28 manga and anime, but also Giant Robo and Sally the Witch."





“First and foremost for us is to concentrate on Pixar legacy characters,” said Nasrabadi, citing Woody and Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story, and Lightning McQueen and Mater from Cars as four of its legacy characters. “We want to keep these well-known and well-liked characters alive without creating a distraction to those working on the full-length motion pictures in California.
“The types of products we produce will be niche products, such as short films, whether they are standalone or episodic in nature,” said Nasrabadi, a 12-year veteran of the digital entertainment business. “They will be helpful to all of Disney’s ancillary businesses, such as television, compilations on DVD, Internet broadcasting, as well as theatres.”
source: Hollywood Reporter
Japanese store UNIQLO is covering video games with its new line of t-shirts. Games like Arkanoid, Bomberman and Pac-Man have their own UNIQLO threads.
The latest UNIQLO TV spot makes a not so subtle reference to new line of game clothes. There’s also Ken the Eagle from Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, who’s appearing on UNIQLO anime shirts and starred in Capcom fighter Tatsunoko vs. Capcom.




