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The Making of Bun Rider the Movie
The Amazing Adventures of Bun Rider has become a much bigger project than originally intended. It’s now become a stop motion animation project. The original concept artwork was recreated as shown here: Then, realizing more characters were needed to tell the first story, the Bendy Wiggle It came into being: Additionally, work has started on […]
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The Adventures of Bun Rider
Initially, I was intending to use shin-mitate-e to recreate some scenes from the Dune movies. However, thinking that I might get into legal jeopardy in regards a very well protected IP, it might not be such a great idea to just clumsily plod into that minefield. However, I had already bought some potato chips and […]
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Shower below the summit / 山下白雨
The second shin mitate-e in my recreation of Hokusai’s 36 views of Mt. Fuji is the “Shower below the summit / 山下白雨 (also known as Black Fuji / 黒富士). It was made from shirts, blankets, bed sheets and a pair of broken wooden chopsticks. These items were laid out on my bed and photographed from […]
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The Great Wave off Kanagawa / 神奈川沖浪裏
Probably the most famous example of ukiyo-e is Hokusai’s Great Wave off Kanagawa (神奈川沖浪裏 : Kanagawa-oki Nami Ura ) which is part his 36 views of Mt. Fuji collection. Recreating each of the 36 pictures in the style of shin-mitate-e (New Parody Picture) seemed the perfect way to start my shin-mitate-e project. The literal translation […]