Tokyo International Anime Fair 2007

Yo! Thanks for being alive with me in my blog! Here I am again to update my adventures in Tokyo! hahaa...
I just came back from Tokyo International Anime Fair today in Odaiba (お台場）. This big event was held in a big convention/exhibition hall named Tokyo Big Sight. Why the name is that so? Don't ask me, I have no idea too.. I also felt funny when I first heard of it too.. hahaa...

This event was fun and worth going. Compare to the last year JUMP Festa, this is much more informative and more focus on Animations. JUMP Festa was about promotion of games, manga and anime. This time is more into animation, from Japanese to Western, from historical to modern. I went there with 3 of my colleagues (my malaysian friend Boon Yik, and another 2 Japanese colleauges).

Now, as usual, lets talk less, and enjoy photos. FYI, I have taken 200 over pictures, but I dun think I can possibly upload so many here, it's tiring you know. hahaa... So I will just pick them selectively and upload. "Sorry for any inconvenience caused." muahahaa.... XD

じゃ、始めましょうか？


That's just the big building-entrance, the big halls are just ahead. Hmm... may be that's the reason why they call it Big Sight. That "underwear" thingy really makes a Big Sight! hahahahaa.... pardon me. =P


My colleagues: (from left) Boon Yik, Masaaki, Tomi.


The main entrance of Tokyo Big Sight conference hall is ahead us.




Doraemon has been remade by new artists and their movies have been broadcasted in theatre in Japan. Not sure about other country. Anyway, I like Doraemon very much since I was a kid, so I have to voice out that this remake version of animation looks cr@p. Character wise, they no longer same as Fujiko Fuji's original drawings. Of course they look close to Fujiko's design, but you definitely can tell the big difference if you are a fan. Especially the animation. I feel sad when I watched one of their remake. Character design, animation, emotion all changed. I was then watching one of the remade "Dinosaur Adventure" on the TV in office with my colleague. And both of us were disappointed with what have been remade. It just looks like a brand new anime for new kids. Sigh....... Opppss.. sorry, talk too much....hahaa... as usual, I just naturally express something when there's something is in my head..hahaa...sorry sorry, ok.. lets move on to next photo.. kekee.. XD


Gibli Studio was there too. And promoting their new upcoming movies.






Kids playground and photo-taking section.






Kids are previewing the short clip on the kiosk.






Kids and family are enjoying at this spot. The only cozy and heart-warming spot for kids...muahahaha.... XD


This is one of the machine that appear in a 3D animation made in Japan here, named Freedom. This animation is one of the animation that indirectly promoting the japanese Cup Noodles. muahaha... it's funny to see part of their animation which keep showing the Cup Noodles while they talk.


Every fair in Japan must have babes, so there's no exception for International Anime Fair this year. hahahaa... Kawaaii ne!




"Nobody wants to take my brouchures?? *Sob* "


New version of Rabbit Lady. Do you see what's hanging at her butt? Wanna take a bite? hahahaa....


Ultraman in Action!


Ghibli new work. Painting style animation. Looks interesting!


Tools for drawing such unique and beautiful artwork. You should see more in Ghibli Museum. They are amazing!


New animation by Production I.G.


This reminds me of City Hunter! hahahaa....










Nice artwork~


Cool unique artwork. Detailed pen-stroke can work out a totally cool concept.


Some shots of nice conceptual design and artworks for an upcoming new anime called Reideen.










New anime robot character. Looks like StarScream from Transformers.


Same category as above.


Figurines time! Sorry, I love cool figurines! Please bear with me for the next few photos..hahaa...
(My camera no good though, please also bear with the bad quality for certain photos. hahaa)


Unfinished sculpture.






























Ok, from here on, it's all cute figurines.. hahaha... I have a friend who would love to see all these. When I saw these cute figurines on the display, it just reminded me of her. She's a good artist who likes to draw these kinds of cute anime characters. でしょう？あはは。。。 (^o^)















hahaa.. I like this one the most! So damn cute! 可愛い！ (^0^)


Ipod in action again. You won't miss Ipod whichever Fair you attending all around the world! hahaa... You asking why they are here? Ipod has nothing to do with animations right? Nope! You are wrong! Apparently they all here lining up nicely to display animation movies on their screens respectively. Now, that reason is good enough to show themselves in this international fair. hahahaha.....


I guess this is the new Apple Seed movie. Look out the Red block words in the midst. Produced by John Woo??!!! Wow! (@0@) "


Mad House studio.


Another my old time favourite anime too. Gatchaman!!! Man, all this are really memory refreshing!


And I've no idea what Gatchaman has turned into "turtles" in this modern time. hahaa... Looks kinda cute though. hahaa


Yet another my young time period favourite anime. I've been loving this kind of fantasy + technology fictions since very young. Certain parts of this old anime still quite refreshing in my mind now. It brings back so much memory. hahaa... I'm talking like an old man now..hahahaa..


Conan Detective! I've been following this comic for quite a long time and yet the author still don feel like ending it.. So I stopped reading since last year.. hahaaa... And now, they are trying to make a movie on theatre screen. hahaa... I wonder if they able to come out fresh new ideas for this movie to make it sell.. hahaa...


Some conceptual artworks for anime named Karas. It's a combination of 2D & 3D animation. After seeing the making of this cool anime, I'm impressed by the methods of matching up 2D & 3D, for example, camera panning from top to bottom of a 3D building with a 2D character drawings inside the building. I also find out that they use 3DSMax biped to produce the 3D animation in this anime. Overall nice piece of work! Though I not sure if the story works for me. hahaha... I will find out one day after I get a copy.






Cool designs! So inspiring!


Karas character statue.




Tintin!!! One of my favourite comic since young. I love every story of his adventure. And his cute bright-minded dog. Cool characteristics and personality. And the comic artworks were very nice too. Didn't expect to see this in this Tokyo fair. But really surprise and glad! =)





Thanks folks! Appreciate your patience to scroll all the way down here to reach this point of end. hahahaha... Good Job! Keep it up man! hahaha... ok lar.. i tired also.. time to sleep.. Have fun whever you are ok ! Take care. And till the next update! (^0^)/ Cheers!

Last but not least AGAIN, here's a short preview of My Friends Tigger & Pooh shown in this anime fair.



「終わり」

Few Compiled Updates! Haha!

Hey friends! Thanks for being patient for all these while, which i'm not very sure if you guys are still following my blog after my long long disappearance.. hahaha... Anyway, I'm Back! hahaa..

There were 2 new guys moved in last week. Both are from Australia and London respectively. They were very friendly and we chatted for a long time when they first moved in. And in the first day we met, I realised that one of the guys is a gamer like myself too. Also inspired by SquareEnix and Final Fantasy games. We shared lots of common about games. And the best part is, HE BROUGHT HIS Nintendo Wii !!! And I managed to hands on Wii for the first time! hahahaa...

He taught me how to use Wii controllers. After a while I got used to it. Then I started to play The Legend of Zelda! Man! I must say it's completely different feeling about playing another type of console, which requires your hand movement dynamically. In another simple word, it's COOL! hahaa.. XD

Speaking of console, my company has also just got a new PS3 console last 2 weeks ago, and put together with other consoles like PS2, XBox360, GC in the common room, which by the way has also tonnes of mangas (comics) & CG reference books.

So far I've not played any PS3 game in the office, but I did tried playing PS2 RPG game with PS3. hahaa... But I've seen other colleagues playing KOEI's Gundam MUSO in PS3.
Graphics wise is great, but sometimes loading time also kinda slow. Looks like going back to PS2 speed. Well, thinking not to buy PS3 in future, but I can't abondon Final Fantasy! It has been part of my life now. When FF13 is out, I think I have to get it anyway. But at least I know it won't be now, probably next year., especially when the price drops tremendously. hahaaa...

For the past one week, I've been staying overnight in office. I think I kinda rather enjoy staying back in office than dragging my body 1 hour all the way back home, including walking, train exchange etc. Kinda tiring sometimes. So I rather choose to stay overnight. Well, good thing that I don't have to sleep on the floor or whatsoever, coz they have few light folding beds at each corner of the room. So far I've slept in the office for 3 times. I think I'm going to try the public bath place near the office. hahaa.... Hmm.. i guess might as well shift to office and stay there for a year.. can save money on rental.. plus, I don't have to worry about late for work every morning. hahahaha... XD ~Dreaming ~

Today I went to watch movie (Pursuit of Happiness) with a friend at Odaiba (お台場), which is a cool place. Wonderful view near the sea. We watch the show in a plaza name Aqua City. However, today was super windy and super extremely cold. I couldn't spend much time in the open air to explore more areas. I didnt' even remember to bring along my camera, which I usually did. Sigh... old liow. =P

The movie was really nice. Good ending I would say. I like the ending. Touching indeed in the end. There's morale you can learn from this story (which based on true story), that is Do Your Best, You will Achieve Your Dream Ultimately if you don't give up and have faith and keep burning the passion. This story kinda reminded my own little story in the past 5 years. I've been risking myself in lots of ways in order to achieve my own little dream. But compared to Will Smith in the movie, he suffered and took higher risk more than me. One of the biggest risk is that, he has his own family, he has a kid to sacrifice, whereas I wasn't in any huge commitment when I was taking my risks in order to achieve my dream. That's why the story really touched me deep inside, and I totally emphatised Will Smith in the story.
Anyway, different people might have different insight for the movie. You may not agree with me after you watched it. But I'm just glad that you can listen to my view. (^_^)

Ok, back to non-serious stuff, hahaaa... sorry to bore you up there ya! =P
Well, the cinema environment/setting was about like what you saw back in Singapore or Malaysia. I watched in a cineplex, so each house was just medium size. Well, if i would compare with Cathay in Singapore, I guess I would choose Cathay in Singapore. hahaa.. coz one reason is that, the chairs in Cathay were much comfortable and high enough for tall people (to rest my head)... and Cathay mostly punctual in movie time (but also got exception). Initially I thought japan cinema should be much better in punctuality, but I guessed it wrong. It was 15 mins late becoz of the commercials. But only good thing is that, 60% above of their commercials were trailers. So it wasn't that bad compare to Golden Village in Singapore, which happened to be all boring commercials... muahahaha.... XD

Ok guys, before i pen off today, here's my last BIG update. I'm coming back to Malaysia & Singapore for total 2 weeks holiday on June. I've just confirmed my air tickets today. I will be returning from 9th June to 23rd June. First week I will be in KL (9th-15th June), then 2nd week, I will travel down to Singapore and stay for another week in Singapore (16th-22nd June). Then, I will travel back to KL for departure back to Tokyo on the next day (23rd June).

Lets plan for some gathering when the date is near, ok! I miss you all!
Hope to see you guys then! Can't wait! (^0^)/

「終わり」

Release of DS Jet Impulse ~ Finally!

Yo! FInally I've completed all the stages and finally saw my name on the Ending Credits!!! Woohoo!!! I mean, it's not the best game on Earth that makes me happy, but it's becoz it's the first 3D game that I've involved in my life and I couldn't believe I actually had the chance to see my own name on a portable game console. Hahaha...
Well, time to "show off" a little bit here... I took video of the Ending credits of the game. Oh yeah, the Ending Credit was designed by me too. But it's edited by other designers, and the names placements are a bit messy. Too bad I couldn't do anything about it coz I left the company early, even months before the game is finalised and published. Anyway, no matter how it turns out, I still happy to see my name on it. hahaha... Check it Out!! kekee.... =P