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Cartoon Saloon animation studio artists worked for Brian Boru exhibition (Trinity College - Dublin). Illustrators : Tomm Moore (director of The Secret of Kells), Ross Stewart and Alice Dieudonne

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Cumulus Clouds Reference by Tim Von Rueden Check out our tips, tricks, and techniques on creating the “puffy” clouds for your environment or illustrations pieces HERE.

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song of the sea I’v seen this movie in TAAF.

It was amazing. I wanna watch this movie again!

I can’t believe only one time screening in Japan.

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Miyazaki tribute piece from a few years ago…the time just flies

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Learning about wolves

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mood

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When you run into your ex (Comic I made for ImagineFX)

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Lotte - Hadrien Bonnet, Nicolas Capitaine, Charlène Chesnier, Céline Desoutter, Samuel Klughertz

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#inktober2015 day14 - the pooka tells a story

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What is it like to live in Japan?

This question arrives in my ASK every so often: What is it like to live in Japan as a non-Japanese resident?

The short answer: It all depends on you.

The longer answer: You’ve got Tokyo, and then you’ve got Japan, and then you’ve got you and your age and your background and your culture and your job and the economy and this bloody stupid virus and an extremely uncertain future, and it all depends on all of that.

I know my answer doesn’t help much, but it really does depend entirely on you. I’ve met weaboos who could rattle off details about obscure manga characters, but went back home after two years, angry and bitter. I know people who arrived in Japan with zero interest in the country – brought here by work, partners, fate – and 20 years later they’re organizing village festivals. Vice versa, too, but an absence of preconceptions might result in fewer disappointments.

Remember what Michelle Obama said about the presidency? “It doesn’t change who you are, it reveals who you are.” Japan is like that. It’s not going to solve your problems and realize your dreams. It’s not going to change you, and you won’t change it. The only people who describe Japan as unequivocally awesome are tourists. Japan is not Disneyland or a Zen paradise or hi-tech science fiction; it’s ordinary people living ordinary lives in a country with quirks, strengths and weaknesses.

I only know Tokyo; I cannot judge rural life. Tokyo is cleaner and safer than most major cities, it has an excellent infrastructure, it’s expensive but not hideously so. It’s also crowded and noisy and impersonal (yet I’ve made wonderful friends here). Its work culture is relentless. I love its efficiency and energy, and its small pockets of beauty and kindness.

If you want to know more about Tokyo, I recommend the books of Donald Richie. He wrote about yesteryear, from WWII to the 1990s, but he knew this city better than most. Richie, Alan Booth and John W. Dower remain the best non-Japanese writers about Japan.

If you want to study in Japan, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) has scholarships for students, known as the Monbukagakusho Scholarship (文部科学省奨学金 Monbukagakushō Shōgakukin).

Also take a look at this tag: https://todayintokyo.tumblr.com/search/tips

PS: If anybody else wants to contribute – long-term residents and people who left – please do!

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The Los Angeles House: Decoration and Design in America's 20th-Century City, 1995

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Cats of the Decade

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((Yotsuba is SO Ponyo after she becomes a human. Just everything she does. AND Miyazaki and Azuma are friends so it's likely Miyazaki based a bit of Ponyo on Yotsuba.))

I definitely won’t refrain from posting Yostuba stuff on here regularly. It also gives me an excuse to get back into the series!

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What is it like to live in Japan?

This question arrives in my ASK every so often: What is it like to live in Japan as a non-Japanese resident?

The short answer: It all depends on you.

The longer answer: You’ve got Tokyo, and then you’ve got Japan, and then you’ve got you and your age and your background and your culture and your job and the economy and this bloody stupid virus and an extremely uncertain future, and it all depends on all of that.

I know my answer doesn’t help much, but it really does depend entirely on you. I’ve met weaboos who could rattle off details about obscure manga characters, but went back home after two years, angry and bitter. I know people who arrived in Japan with zero interest in the country – brought here by work, partners, fate – and 20 years later they’re organizing village festivals. Vice versa, too, but an absence of preconceptions might result in fewer disappointments.

Remember what Michelle Obama said about the presidency? “It doesn’t change who you are, it reveals who you are.” Japan is like that. It’s not going to solve your problems and realize your dreams. It’s not going to change you, and you won’t change it. The only people who describe Japan as unequivocally awesome are tourists. Japan is not Disneyland or a Zen paradise or hi-tech science fiction; it’s ordinary people living ordinary lives in a country with quirks, strengths and weaknesses.

I only know Tokyo; I cannot judge rural life. Tokyo is cleaner and safer than most major cities, it has an excellent infrastructure, it’s expensive but not hideously so. It’s also crowded and noisy and impersonal (yet I’ve made wonderful friends here). Its work culture is relentless. I love its efficiency and energy, and its small pockets of beauty and kindness.

If you want to know more about Tokyo, I recommend the books of Donald Richie. He wrote about yesteryear, from WWII to the 1990s, but he knew this city better than most. Richie, Alan Booth and John W. Dower remain the best non-Japanese writers about Japan.

If you want to study in Japan, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) has scholarships for students, known as the Monbukagakusho Scholarship (文部科学省奨学金 Monbukagakushō Shōgakukin).

Also take a look at this tag: https://todayintokyo.tumblr.com/search/tips

PS: If anybody else wants to contribute – long-term residents and people who left – please do!

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My cartoon for the latest issue of New Scientist.

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goodbye, tiger