All aboard the Evangelion Shinkansen

From this Autumn, to commemorate both the 40th anniversary of the opening of the Sanyō Shinkansen line and the 20th anniversary of Evangelion's first television broadcast, Hideaki Anno has teamed up with mechanical designer Ikuto Yamashita to design the "500 Type Eva" shinkansen for JR West.

Hayao Miyazaki to direct Ghibli's first fully CG animated short, 'Boro the Caterpillar'

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Since his (most recent) retirement from directing feature films, Miyazaki has been working on a short CG animation to join the collection of short films shown at the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, Tokyo, Studio Ghibli Producer Toshio Suzuki announced on the 10th of July. The project, entitled 'Boro the Caterpillar' (Kemushi no Boro), is based on an idea for a feature film Miyazaki envisioned prior to working on Princess Mononoke. The 10 minute film is expected to take 3 years to complete.

While Studio Ghibli regularly employs the use of CG to compliment its 2D animations, the new short film will be the studio's first fully CG work. Mr Suzuki said that Mr Miyazaki is very excited about the new project.

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Hayao Miyazaki at work on computer graphics short

Bartkira, the animated trailer

Ryan Humphrey and James Harvey's Bartkira project is finally an animation! The call for animators for the Bartkira trailer went out in November 2014 and the completed trailer, produced by Kaitlin Sullivan, features the work of 31 individual animators.

Google celebrates Eiji Tsuburaya's 114th birthday with interactive tokusatsu doodle

Today's Google Doodle celebrates the 114th birthday of tokusatsu legend, Eiji Tsuburaya, best known as a co-creator of Godzilla and creator of Ultra Q and Ultraman.