Mural Animations at Seed Studio

Now I can finally share my last half year projects with you hooo! 

As seen in the last blog post, I did a mural painting at Seed Animation Studio and that project expanded further more beautifully and unexpectedly. They asked me to animate the mural painting with my voice over to make their Ident. Under the great creative circumstances over 14 weeks, I have learnt a lot from their art direction. Now the animation is fully decorated with mysterious flued sound and ready to be on air! 

The project details are online at Seed's website here. 

The Magic Seeds Ident

Back in Summer, Seed was taking thousands of photos of me painting on the wall and here they made a video time lapsed over 2.5 months. Thanks a lot for this great work, I really enjoyed looking at this upbeat super quick drawing! You can also see my hair growing and all clothes from my wardrobe...

The Magic Seeds Mural

Mural at Seed HQ

This is one of the things I was working on last year. The mural painting at Seed Animation Studio HQ in London Soho hooray! Have a look at my website (the Mural & 3D Crafts chapter) for more close up photos!




Days and days ago before the summer in 2011, I think I sent my CV to Seed as an animator as I liked their cute but edgy character based animations. Instead of a desk and a chair, they gave me a 3x6 metres wide blank wall to cover with my illustration and I thought yeaa sounds delicious. I spent whole 2 months sometimes painting till midnight because it was great fun indeed :)




The drawing is based on this poem about seeds, referring to the name of the studio.




The Magic Seeds

There was one old woman who sowed a corn seed,

And from it there sprouted a tall yellow weed.

She planted the seeds of the tall yellow flower,

And up sprang a blue one in less than an hour.

The seed of the blue one she sowed in a bed,

And up sprang a  tall tree with blossoms of red.

And high in the treetop there sang a white bird,

And his song was the sweetest that ever was heard.

The people they came from far and from near,

The song of the little white bird for to hear.

(by James Reeves)




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去年やっていたことをやっと報告できます！

ロンドンのソーホーにあるSeed Animation Studioというアニメーション事務所で描いた壁画。私のサイトの英語の方にもっと写真アップしました。日本語の方もあとで更新します。




Seedのアニメーションはキャラクターが可愛くてちょっとエグイのがとても好みで、去年の夏前にアニメーターとして履歴書を送ったところ、アニメの仕事よりまず壁をくれたのでした。3mx6mの壁って思ったよりでかいです。結局２ヶ月かかりましたが、プロデューサーと好みがとても合ったので、始終ノリノリで描けました。おばあちゃん最初はちゃんと可愛い顔あったんだけど、「もっと気持ち悪くなんないかなぁ、例えば顔が触手に侵食されているとか」とのご指摘を受けたので、喜んで顔をつぶしました＾＾

イラストは、上記のMagic Seedsという詩を元にしています。もちろん事務所名とかけて。

The Bizarre Adventure Exhibition

Me and my friend who is an art director of the art and design collective "Vicious Sabrina" are having a small quirky exhibition on the corner of East End London. If you are around, please feel free to pop in :)

Date:               1st ~ 8th May ( 7th closed for a Bank Holiday)
Open:              11.00 ~ 18.00
Private View:  Thursday 3rd, 18.30 ~ 20.00
Venue:             Luna & Curious  / 24–26 Calvert Avenue, London, E2 7JP

The poster above is a part of our collaboration where I made the drawing and my friend did the design and layout work. The illustration is of an old tree decorated with the Vicious Sabrina's art works and looking like a man in a portrait. As you guess, inspired by the work of Giuseppe Arcimboldo...


イーストロンドンの一角で、友人且つアート＆デザインユニットVicious Sabrinaのディレクターでもあるセキ君と、小さな奇妙な展示をします。上のポスターは、私がイラストを描き、セキ君がデザイン・レイアウトをしてくれました。イラストは、Vicious Sabrinaの作品に着飾られた肖像画風の古木です。アルチンボルド作品も参考にしながら…

以下、展示詳細と２枚めの画像の日本語版です：
『The Bizarre Adventure』展
日時：5月1〜8日（7日休館）11:00 ~ 18:00
プライベートビュー：5月3日 18:30 ~ 20:00
場所：Luna & Curious  / 24–26 Calvert Avenue, London, E2 7JP

『The Bizarre Adventure』展は、アートブランド『Vicious Sabrina』 とアーティスト西村夕貴がロンドンで出会い生まれた、シュールな妄想のかたちです。
『Vicious Sabrina』 は、「架空の女性である " Vicious Sbarina " の存在を制作物と通して形成することを目的に、" グラフィック　映像　ウェブ　プロダクト　空間 " あらゆる領域で作品を制作する、アート＆デザインユニットです（V.S.ホームページより）」。西村夕貴は、フリーのイラストレーター兼アニメーターであり、これまでナンセンスな詩や文学を、独自の視点でビジュアル化することに取り組んできました。
昨冬このふたつのアートが出会ってから、今回が初のコラボレーションになります。ダークで詩的な空間とシュールなユーモアの織りなす『奇妙な冒険』を、お楽しみください。

Catty Portrates

It seems that I'd better to keep confidential for a little bit more about the work I did for one animation studio last year, so I'm going to hide the last blog post until I can officially put it on the air. But thanks for leaving a comment :)

So I can show you something else but tiny for the tea break. These are the paper craft portraits of me, my dad and my mum that I made for my dad's birthday last year. My dad loves cats, so I turned my family into cats referring to individual personalities and body shapes. That's why me-cat looks chubby and slow, and by contrast my mummy-cat looks boney and nimble.

Hm, maybe I can open a small business of making people's Catty Portraits, or even in different animals depending on the person...? hehe

REALMS by UHFD

Here is one of the work I did in 2011. Another CD cover for the American band UHFD (I did their first album jacket as well). It's their second album called "REALMS" based on the thought of afterlife in Eastern religions and mythologies...

This is a long corridor covered with the mandala pattern which is leading to the afterlife. I characterised a boatman of the Sanzu River (aka the River Styx in Greek mytholoy) and six Realms in Buddhism.When you get there, they guide you to the next world waiting behind the door at the bottom...

2011年発売、アメリカのメタルバンドUHFDの、セカンドアルバム『REALMS』のジャケットです。東洋の宗教や思想にある「死後の世界」をイメージして作られたアルバムなので、イラストにも、三途の川の渡し守や仏教の六道を、私なりにキャラクター化して描いてみました。ピンクとブルーの長い廊下は、バンドのリーダーのイメージに基づいた、死後の世界へ続く道です。