penthousevagrant.

May, this one's for you baby!

Yes I should be doing a little updating, it has been a while ( I think I went longer than Stevie Dean without posting anything).Work was going well in Japan and then I got an offer to go work for Animal Logic that I couldn't refuse, so my own stuff has pretty much been on the backburner all year.Looking to change that in the New Year but we'll see....
Happy Christmas and a Merry New Year to all!!!!!!

and no May you don't need to know Japanese to visit, it would help but the Japanese are a warm and giving people and will be more than happy to welcome your arse into their beautiful land.If you go in the next year you wont be able to surf my couch though, its in Syndey for the timebeing :(.

Cherry Blossom season

Off to the park tomorrow to bask under the wafer thin petals of the delectable cherry blossom trees, with a band of miscreants and ne'er do wells.The perfect combination.

Quick sketch

Work in Progress, pen sketch and colouring in Photoshop.
It snowed in Tokyo twice this week!

Tattoo

A good friend of ours Rob asked Hiromi to design him a tatttoo based on the Japanese many tailed fox, a popular folklore god.

Tattooist Noriko is inking it tomorrow

I dare say it's gonna turn out prety grand.

And may 2008 be fruitful, successful and sensual for all.

Waterlollies

We were treated to a sneak preview of Adam Phillips's Waterlollies a few days ago............holy shit! The shadows, BG's and and layouts were out of control even for Adam's high standards.
It will be released on his site in a day or so, se the link on the left.
In other news my Uniqlo shirt came in around the #37- mark at final tally to go to round two, so I got cut.
Thanks to you who voted!
As a consolation prize me n Hiromi just scored jobs at 'floor' a gaming company in Tokyo, so I can't resally complain.
Coming into winter again in Tokyo which reminds me how good home is this time of year.....bloody fantastic!

Uniqlo Japan UT Grand Prix 08

One of my designs has been accepted into the 2008 Uniqlo design comp, and you can see it here
The voting system is set up as a random battle, which you can access over here hopefully my shirt pops up in your first few battles ( if not feel free to battle until it does :D )
There is a designers blog on the site too which I will be sure to fill with insightful commentary and witty banter.....

Cursed Ningyo

Adam Parton from Square-i and his lovely wife Amanda have been getting up to mischief with us here in bonny Tokyo, and recently purchased 2 disturbing little dolls in Kyoto.
I dare say the dolls will murder us all in our sleep before the week is out, so we decided to go for a little photoshoot to mark the occasion.