Drawing/art, my cats, animals, video games, anime, manga, art books, photography, Japanese culture, visual kei, cosplay, Gothic and Gothic Lolita fashion, the English language, sci-fi, fantasy, comedy, amateur dramatics, singing, playing guitar, flying stunt kites, collecting toys and models, Asian ball-jointed dolls...
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Music
Japanese/Asian: X Japan, hide, Gackt, Siam Shade, Luna Sea, Sugizo, B'z, Janne Da Arc, Guniw Tools, Nookicky, Chachamaru, Malice Mizer, TM Revolution, Abingdon Boys School, DETROX, The Pillows, VOW WOW, Yoko Kanno, Dope HEADz, JO:YA Project, INO Head Park, Camino, Duel Jewel, ZiVA, Ruiza
Western: Dream Theater, The Darkness, DragonForce, Panic! At The Disco, Elliot Minor, 30 Seconds to Mars, My Chemical Romance, Linkin Park, System of a Down, Fall Out Boy, Tenacious D, Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Evanescence, Bowling For Soup, Blink 182, Alien Ant Farm, Cinema Bizarre, The Rasmus, Trivium, Queen, Aerosmith, Ozzy Osbourne, Alice Cooper, The Who, The Sweet, Slade, Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Nik Kershaw, Iron Maiden, Guns n' Roses, Extreme, Mr. Big, Skid Row, Little Angels, Joe Satriani, Whitesnake, Van Halen, Queensryche, Vince Neil, Motley Crue, Poison, Warrant, Marillion, Toto, Steve Lukather, Yngwie Malmsteen, Def Leppard...
Movies
This Is Spinal Tap, Death Note 1 and 2, Detroit Metal City, all the Monty Python films, Alien, Aliens, Wall-E, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, V for Vendetta, Serenity, Twelve Monkeys, Fight Club, The Fifth Element, School Of Rock, Pick of Destiny, Star Wars, Interview With The Vampire, Queen Of The Damned, What Dreams May Come, Ghostbusters, Velvet Goldmine, A Clockwork Orange, Withnail and I, Battle Royale, Azumi, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, Laputa - Castle in the Sky, My Neighbour Totoro (and many other Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli films), Space Firebird/Hi No Tori 2772, Animalympics
Television
Doctor Who, Heroes, Life on Mars, Ashes To Ashes, Being Human, Moonlight, Blood Ties, Crooked House, Smallville, Firefly, Merlin, Oban Star Racers, Tin Man, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Medium, Farscape, Formula 1 coverage, the Gadget Show, Mythbusters, Scrap Heap Challenge, Gormenghast, The Mighty Boosh, Family Guy, Drawn Together, Mock The Week, QI, Mitchell and Webb, Armstrong and Miller, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, The IT Crowd, Garth Marenghi's Dark Place, Man To Man with Dean Learner, Look Around You, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Blackadder, Fawlty Towers, Red Dwarf, Vic Reeves' Big Night Out, The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer, Randall and Hopkirk: Deceased (Vic and Bob remake), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the Goodies, Rising Damp, Citizen Smith, Big Cat Diaries, Roar, Animal Park and wildlife/natural history programmes in general.
No soaps, 'reality TV', celebrity-obsessed toss or dancing programmes for me, thank you. :P
Books
Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles titles, My Nightmare in England by Kotaro Sarai... *whispers* and anything with pretty pictures in!
Heroes
Osamu Tezuka, Hayao Miyazaki, Yoshitaka Amano, Ayami Kojima, Nobuteru Yuuki, Satoshi Urushihara, Kazuki Akane, Takahiro Kishida, Hyung-Tae Kim, Ray Harryhausen, Roger Dean, Rodney Matthews, Salvador Dali, Gustav Klimt, Tim Burton, Steven Lisberger, Yoshiki, Hide, Pata, Heath, Toshi, Sugizo, Gackt, Chachamaru, Full, Amy Lee, Brian May, Eddie Van Halen, Bruce Dickinson, Slash, Sebastian Bach, Vince Neil, Herman Li, Sam Totman, John Petrucci, Steve Stevens, Vik Foxx, Lita Ford, Noel Fielding, Julian Barratt, Eddie Izzard, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Alan Davies, Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, the Pythons, Pete & Dud, the League of Gentlemen, Mark Gatiss, Douglas Adams, Nicholas Briggs and the Big Finish audio team, the Top Gear trio - Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, Bill Bailey, Robin Williams, Steve Martin, Paul McGann, Tom Baker, Peter Davidson, Sylvester McCoy, Patrick Troughton, Colin Baker, John Pertwee, David Tennant, John Simm, Phillip Glenister, Anne Rice, Masi Oka (Hiro from 'Heroes'), Captain Harlock, ZiVA, Jinecou, Azima, Kizoku, C-kun, Pappy and my late dad
I am a commercial artist with over 15 years of experience, 7 years of which was spent working full-time in the computer games industry. Prior to that I worked in a design studio, and going back further still I was taking on paid art commissions as young as the age of 14.
I have a number of high-profile published game titles under my belt, including work on the Theme Park series (where I produced concept art as well as building, texturing and animating 3D models). Probably my biggest achievement so far is as the main concept artist/character designer for Microsoft's X-Box game Sudeki.
Since the very humble beginnings of the project, I produced literally hundreds of drawings and CG art pieces through the years of its development, as well as adding my own finishing touches to various pieces of Sudeki marketing art.
Aside from the games industry, I've taken on numerous art commissions over the years and my work has found a variety of outlets, including:
Merchandising, marketing and website art for Japanese rock musicians JO:YA and Duel Jewel
Print designs for a major guitar strap manufacturer
CD covers and T-shirt designs for Anime Radio
CD cover art for "Anime Toonz Vol. 2" CD released by Jellybean Recordings of New York
Art showcased in New York at "Gamers' Nite Groove" event
Various art pieces for sci-fi/anime convention books and promotions
Pantomime and am-dram poster art
On-the-spot caricatures
Art workshops/presentations
Character and mascot design
Commercial identities and logos
Vehicle concept design
Sci-fi and high fantasy artwork
Designs for animatronic displays and theming projects
Anthropomorphic/"furry" art and other cartoon styles
Digital photo re-touching/manipulation
Personal online manga comic project
Small press comic work
Art for print in magazines
Vector art
Pixel art: Animated .gif files, window-sitter mascots and 2D game sprites (mobile phone, Palm PC, Game Boy Advance etc.)
Model-making and doll customisation
Toy design
Fashion designs for print on clothing and accessories
Costume design
Greetings card designs and other commercial 'cute' art
Concepts for web page visuals
Although cartoon, manga and anime style art is among my specialties, it's certainly not all that I am capable of. I'm confident that I am a flexible artist able to work in a wide range of styles and media.
Currently I am freelancing full-time.
My Chun-Li cosplay photos featured on Tokyopop Popcast 22/5/08:
Who I'd like to meet: Eccentric intellectuals, artists, musicians and actors/thespians; other fans of any of the stuff I'm into; my heroes; renegade Time Lords...
One of my videos of abingdon boys school at Camden Underworld
My photos from the abingdon boys school gig
I'd like to meet so many of my heroes with whom I feel a strong artistic connection. They have all inspired me in some way or another.
Recently I was lucky enough to meet one of my heroes - the actor Paul McGann. It truly was a marvellous experience and although it may have been one of those once-in-a-lifetime opportunities I'd be only too happy to meet him again. He was just so nice! :D
I'd also like to meet Elliot Minor... AGAIN! Recently I caught up with them for the second time... who says you can have too much of a good thing? They are awesome in person too.
I'd also like to meet ZiVA, super pianist and my online buddy of so many years whom I've never yet managed to meet in person. We need to fix that, mate! LOL
Then there's dear long-lost Shunchan... and all these great peeps whose banners I'm proud to pimp!
Fantastic. I'm glad the gig went fantastic for you. I'm sure he would be very, very proud of you. I'll have to read up on that game, then. Definitely a great accomplishment for you.
thank you for the comment :) really glad that you made it along. it didnt click who you were at first! you should have come and said hi! glad you enjoyed it. Hope to see you at another show soon :) xxx
You..re welcome! I..m doing this like! I have sooooooooo much questions! I..m very curyous person! xDDD I send you interview too!x) You have much iterview from me xDDD hehe
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