Harajuku's Sebastian 6%DokiDoki

This is Sebastian from Harajuku's "Sensational Kawaii" fashion brand 6%DOKIDOKI (http://www.facebook.com/6doki.fan) at the Tokyo press event for the upcoming Rune Boutique party in Los Angeles.

Sebastian has a very unique sense of personal style, photographing him has always been enjoyable. The Los Angeles 6%DOKIDOKI fashion show & party (Sebastian will be there) are on December 9th.

Details here: http://www.facebook.com/events/188250317925389/

Website:
http://www.dokidoki6.com/

Ashley Wood: Art of Metal Gear

Metal Gear Solid rocks!! This game practically invented the stealth gaming genre. Whether you're a fan of Solid Snake, or more in line with Big Boss, one thing the series has always had is style.

Art of Metal Gear Solid HC - Australia's own ASHLEY WOOD has worked on the comic adaptations, and most recently designed in game cinematics for METAL GEAR SOLID: PORTABLE OPS on the PSP. This revamped art book gives us new and never before seen material. While showcasing art from Wood's METAL GEAR SOLID and METAL GEAR SOLID: SONS OF LIBERTY graphical novels and art from in METAL GEAR SOLID: PORTABLE OPS. Here's your chance to droll over all the pretty pictures from the past decade of METAL GEAR, and see some ASHLEY WOOD paintings of Big Boss acting like....well a Boss.

http://parkablogs.com/node/1231 - Buy the book (Art Book reviews, anime artbooks, animation and digital paintings)

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/09/dark-moody-metal-gear-art-of-aussie-ashley-wood/

Illustration Info - http://www.graphiclust.com/ashley-wood

Wallpaper -- http://www.latestscreens.com/wallpaper/Metal_Gear_Solid:_Portable_Ops/metalgearsolidportableops



























Metal Gear Solid: Digital Graphic Novel (Part 1 Enter Shadow Moses)


Metal Gear Solid: Digital Graphic Novel (Part 2 Battle Revolver Ocelot)

Metal Gear Solid: Anime?

Robert Knoke

Robert Knoke is the Berlin-based artist making blotchy black images of fashion and art's best love figures.



The Berlin-based, post-Expressionist artist Robert Knoke has an urgent interest: depicting his subjects in hardcore, kinetic squiggles with stoic intensity.

Armed with an insane aptitude for drawing, print-making and graphic design, Knoke creates artworks that radiate with erotic yearning, transgressive deviance and avant-garde gusto. Known for his visceral portraiture and bold mixed-media pieces, Knoke’s work features influential figures across the arts including Nicola Formichetti, Rick Owens, Marc Jacobs, Bret Easton Ellis and Terence Koh. Making the most innervating compositions from a sincere and affectionate place, his work explores pop-iconography from a darker, harder-edged angle.

Since his arrival on the global art scene in the early nineties (he flits between Berlin, London and NYC), Knoke has been carrying favour with the alternative fashion and music crowd, recognized for his blotchy, dark draftsmanship. He’s done countless portraits of legit celebs, fringey freaks and no-names alike and tends to show his stuff at avant-garde galleries, concept stores, art fairs and via pop-ups. With a recently released book Robert Knoke Black Material, his portraits are currently on display at V Group World.
i-D Online caught up with the kinetic Künstler in NYC’s Lower East Side…

What’s your work all about?
My genre is ‘Portraiture’, but I don’t define myself as a pure portraitist. My work is somewhere between drawing, painting and abstraction. It’s about figure without being figurative in a narrative sense.

What materials do you use to produce your work?
I use grease pencils, rolling-ball ink pens, Sharpies, tissue paper, a patchwork of cardboard pieces for a canvas and digital photos of my subjects that I tend to shoot myself.

Who’s on your radar right now?
Ai Wei Wei for his artistic integrity and intellectual courage.

What’s your favourite piece?
Hmm, my rendering of glam-punker Kembra Pfahler is especially poignant. It’s all about sexual politics and identity. Her portrait is perhaps my most auspicious work and I love her post-gender ‘pandrogynous’ aura which I expressed in dramatic pastiche and impasto. It took me longer to complete than the others and it is riddled with minutia, energy and austerity, I believe.

What is it about drawing other people that you’re so attracted to?
I love drawing other people because I value the interaction between myself and my subjects. Sometimes it is a deep relationship and other times it is just superficial but it always forces a kind of introspection and self-awareness that I really cherish.

http://zerozeroproject.com/

Making of Master Of The Road - Yokohama

Here's how it's like storyboarding a 3d commercial for 'Yokohama' entitled Masters of the Road featuring Samurai bikers, love to see their detailed drawings and their concept phase.

The commercial is set in Japan’s Sengoku or Warring States period (mid 15th century to early 17th century) and portrays armoured samurai warriors making high speed charges in various conditions while riding Yokohama tyres in place of their trusty steeds.
The samurai figure was chosen for both its strongly identifiable connection with Japan and to represent the performance qualities embodies in Yokohama tyres. The manufacturer reports that the “Master of the Road” commercial was shown in a number of countries, primarily Russia, and in these markets it inspired great public interest in the samurai and “dramatically improved” the Yokohama brand’s recognition and performance. Awards committee chairman Toshiaki Nozue commented “this is a good piece of work. It represents the product well and it has strong visual impact and a sense of speed.” The commercial received positive feedback for both its concept and planning and the quality of its execution. McCann Erickson Japan Inc. was responsible for the production.

The "Japan IAA Best Advertising Award" is sponsored by the Japanese chapter of the International Advertising Association. The organisation works in cooperation with FOX International Channels and holds the aim of improving the standard of international advertisements in Japan.



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http://global.yokohamatire.net/mediacenter/advertising/advertising_masteroftheroad.html

Editorial Infographics

Lucian Marin wrote a full section describing the best practices for designing websites. There he talked about templates grids, golden ratio, typography, article and comments design for Newscoop. He also wrote a few other sections regarding Facebook, HTML 5 and best practices for SEO.



He designed all the diagrams used in the book. He used a black and white style on a math paper. He tried to simply and clarify every step showed on each diagram. It’s not an easy process as it seems. You have to conceptualize the whole process and then create each step displayed in the diagram.

Newscoop 3 Cookbook can already be order from Lulu and will be available for free on FLOSS Manuals.

Street Fighter Legacy

Street Fighter is one of the most popular, enduring action video game series the world has ever known. Whether it played the centrepiece of entertainment on the Sega Megadrive in the early 1990s or recently recaptured the imagination of fans on the Xbox360 and PlayStation 3 consoles, almost everyone of a certain generation battled their friends on Street Fighter. Pushing aside earlier live action adaptations that never lived up to expectation, it begs the question why a well-crafted Street Fighter movie was never produced.

That question has only recently been answered and, after many years of playing the game and becoming increasingly tired by the lack of care and authenticity reflected in live-action projects, the challenge was taken up by British action star and martial artist, Joey Ansah ( www.joeyansah.com/street-fighter-legacy ). With credits that includes Batman Begins, 12(Twelve) and most famously, The Bourne Ultimatum, combined with his lifelong love of the Street Fighter franchise, Joey was more than qualified to take on the project, also marking his directorial debut. The result is Street Fighter Legacy, a short pilot which stunned the online community with the force of a Hadouken energy ball. Already building a huge fanbase with well over 2 million views and growing, the world has finally seen what's possible when filmmakers remain faithful to the source. Remember, you can still search 'Street Fighter Legacy' on YouTube to catch the action for yourself. See you in the Arena!



Here's another fan made video which is pretty awesome to share too.

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Fists with Animalistic impact power

In the image below Sagat Versus Ryu
Don't you just love to see how artist illustrates the pressure/impact of a punch (in this case, Sagat's Tiger punch)

For more artwork visit:
http://minohkim.deviantart.com/

「STREET FIGHTER X 鉄拳」EPISODE 1

             STREET FIGHTER X 鉄拳 - (pronounced Street Fighter Cross Tekken)
Games 格斗游戏 like Street Fighter and Tekken (鉄拳) are games that I played in my younger days. It interesting that now they have mesh up and 计划 created crossover such as this.












STREET FIGHTER X 鉄拳 
You can head here to download Soundtracks:
http://www.mrsoundtrack.com/












STREET FIGHTER 25th Anniversary Logo 
Red Boxing Gloves and his red forehead band are the classic accessories of Ryu which is so iconic throughout fighting games.













The Plot:
The center of the conflict between the Street Fighter and Tekken universes is a cubical object that crash-lands in Antarctica. The object is of a mysterious origin and researchers worldwide are unable to determine what purpose it serves. The only thing that can be understood is that when beings come into conflict around this object, it releases a water-like energy that brings more power to the combatants. Due to the object's tendency to react to conflict between beings, they name it "Pandora".^[11] Whilst a standard story is given to most combinations of fighters, specific teams, such as Ryu and Ken or Kazuya and Nina, receive their own unique story elements and rival battles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_Fighter_X_Tekken











For More Character Posters: http://andriasang.com/comv93/sf_x_tekken_screens/images/233qd/

「STREET FIGHTER X 鉄拳」EPISODE 1

http://www.capcom.co.jp/sfxtk/character.html

PS Vita : Street Fighter X Tekken - Gamescon 2012 Trailer

TADA! Crafty Recycling Gift Ideas

Described by the creator as "a crafty recycling blog", Blah-to-tada is every nature-lover's (and cheapskate's) solution to creative gift ideas. From used items to trash, anything 'blah' can be transformed into a 'tada'-worthy gift . Just don't let the recipient know that part of her new bracelet came out of the dumpster. But hey, it's the thought that counts, right?
http://blah-to-tada.blogspot.com/

IconzWorld

Keep on top of the coolest web buttons and icon designs by subscribing to IconzWorld. This blog is dedicated to bringing users the best free samples from around the globe. Here you can submit and share your own styles, link to other websites and appreciate the latest and greatest design.
http://www.iconzworld.com

Panning of Video

Police Video



I like the way this commercial is being shot, using chess pieces to illustrate, and panning the video to show how the story links up. Enjoy !


For this it's more like how a runner can transform into a police officer, while using his talent 'running'. Realising his potential. I find the transforming part extra cool!

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This is a Hk police ad, using slow-motion to show a more emotional and dramatic effect.