Enrico’s blog

Was shopping around amazon japan (ordered the new PandaKoPanda dvd) and noticed how beautiful the design for the Divingbell and the butterfly DVD is over there. Great design … for a great movie (a must see if you haven’t yet).

GhibliWorld.com brings news of the official japanese release date of Miyazaki’s new film Gake no ue no Ponyo (崖の上のポニョ, Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea) in July, together with some really interesting comments from producer Suzuki San. Maybe we should book a weekend charter flight to Tokyo in July! GhibliWorld.com also features [...]

Remember this image from UP? Well here’s a 3d render of it … pretty neat, uh?! You can see it in high res here.

Last night I popped in the Criterion Seven Samurai dvd and man whenever I start watching that movie I have the hardest time stopping, what a masterpiece! Every scene is absolutely riveting. Interestingly this morning I was checking GhibliWorld.com and they just posted a translated excerpt of Suzuki San’s radio show with, as a guest, [...]

I received a couple of days ago the “Gake no ue no Ponyo” image album (which is a sort of “pre-soundtrack” usually Studio Ghibli releases for their upcoming movies) and I must say I love the music Hisaishi Joe has started composing for this movie. It’s been a pleasure to listen to it with my [...]

This interview with Studio Ghibli’s Toshio Suzuki just got me feeling all warm and fuzzy inside. It’s a great read, filled with wonderful tidbits about Miyazaki’s next movie Ponyo on a Cliff (opening in Japan in July). I think we might get to see a trailer on the net pretty soon for it. Thanks to [...]

If you’ve read the Venice Chronicles (specifically around these couple of pages) you’ve probably seen this animation I did for my wife’s birthday a couple of years back. You might have seen also this little silly bit I did a while back. Ah the things one does for love. Well, I did an another one [...]

I noticed through Ronnie’s blog that “Up”, the movie we’ve been working on for more than 2 years now (directed by Pete Docter and Bob Peterson) already has a wikipedia page. That was pretty fast. Incidentally the concept art image on the wiki was drawn by yours truly and painted by talented colleague Daniel Arriaga.

I was gone for only five days last week but it sure felt like longer, a very jam-packed quick visit. The reason I was in Milan as I had mentioned was work: the italian release of the Ratatouille DVD. I prepared a presentation for the press conference held at Terrazza Martini (great view of the [...]

This is a really interesting interview in comic version with Marjane Satrapi. She brings up such deep but simple points. I like the ending note especially: “the second I have a friend in one country, that country cannot be my enemy.” So true, so simple. Ok, ready for the next SketchCrawl friends all around the [...]