Welcome! Anime CG Lab is a blog to research of computer graphics in Japanese animation.
Consept of this site
1. Summarize the technology of “Anime CG”
I want to put together universal ideas for “Anime CG”.
2. Resarching “Anime CG” extensively while being involved whith various people
I started this blog to involved with English speakers as well.
I would like to be able to communicate with CG Artists who like Japanese Animation via comments.
I would like to improve the quality of “Anime CG”.
Currently, the problems are piling up.
I hope to be able to create as much expression as “Sakuga”.
About your host
I’m Satoshi Sawada, administrator of Anime CG Lab. I’m an Character Modeler / CG Generalist of Anime art. I have been working in the Japanese animation industry for 10 years now.
I started this blog to study English as well. Please let me know if there is anything odd in the text.
My Representative Work History
BATMAN NINJA : CGI Director
MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM Cucuruz Doan’s Island : 3D Modeling Director
魂を快気せし海の少女 キスキル・リラ SPECIAL MOVIE : CG Director
Dragon’s Dogma : CGI Modeling Director, CGI Modeling Supervisor
Eve “Mob” MV : CGI Modeling Director
“L.S” Pilot Film : Modeling
GATCHAMAN Crowds : CG Animator
My Computer Graphic History
I started computer graphic by “Macromedia Flash” at junior high school third grader.
However, after learning software and creating Flash sites, I got bored.
When I was in my second year at university, I wanted to create 3D movie, so I started “Shade”.
However, unable to get used to “Free-Form Surface” of “Shade”, I was setbacked.
At that time, I was ispired by the Opening of “FREEDOM”, and started “Lightwave 3D” with the money I saved from my part-time job. “Lightwave 3D” was very easy to use. I made a few movie and played around with “Lightwave 3D”.
Then, I found out about “Adobe” and bought the student version of Adobe Production Premium to play with.
In college, I studied “Programming of Computer Graphics” and read books like “OpenGL”, “DIrectX”, “ARToolKit”, and so on. In the future, I was thinking of working in the field for “AR” or “VR” in the “Game” or “interactive media” field.
However, I enjoyed making “CG” as a hobby and wondered if I could work in the field of “CG Movie”. So I thought about going into the creative field, but I thought it would be difficult to get a job. So, I decided against “graduate school” and started attending “Digital Hollywood ( a japaniese computer graphics technical college )”.
And here, i touch “Adobe”, “Maya”, “3dsMax”, “ZBrush”, “Nuke” and so on. I remenber starting up “Softimage” and closing it gently because I didn’t understand it.
Since I started working, I mainly use “Lightwave 3D” and “MODO”. Now that I’m freelance, I sometimes touch “Maya” or “3dsMax” depanding on the job, but my proficiency level is not as high as the main tools.
Recently, I have also started to touch “Blender”.
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Others
The Japanese page includes my history of midia coverage and event appearances in Japan, as well as other sites I run. However, these are all linked to the Japanese site.