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Username: aoineko | Zone type: Creator | Born: 2/23/1983 | Gender: Gender : male | Last Update 4/14/2008 | 201 Views
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Profession:
Animator, Writer, Director & Swordsman
Education:
Dropout
Resume/CV:
2006 - Present - Production of unannounced feature film project

2005 - Produced 30 minute CG film "Fragile Machine" which was named 'Best Animated Film of the Year' by cyberpunkreview.com and won numerous international film festival honors (more information available at fragilemachine.com)

2005 - Produced web exhibition 'Living Spaces' in Paris for couture designer Thierry Mugler.

2005 - Produced 'de05' animated short for IdN's Singapore DesignEdge conference and 'Press Start Button' animated short for Penny Arcade's PAX2005

2004 - Won top two awards in Rockstar Games' Upload Competition for the works 'superelectronic' and 'sentosa mikano'.

2003 - Featured in national print campaign by Canon for their CDCC.

2003 - Superelectronic exhibited at Aoyama Spiral in Tokyo, NYU, UCLA

2001 - Digital art project 'subterranean' exhibited in Spain and at the National Museum of Art in Rome.
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studioNX
studioNX Says:
Hey, I'm a new member, I've got a funny animation in this years competition - http://www.aniboom.com/video/290528/A-day-in-the-l ife/ - It would be awesome if you could help us out and give us a rating!! We have also started posting some comics and interactive animations from the series here: - http://www.breeson.blogspot.com/ - - http://www.apt323.com -
20 days ago
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Stuff I Dig
Interests:
music, flowers, nice people, raindrops, sparkles
Music:
Boards of Canada, Satchmo, Cornelius, Claudine Longet, Radiohead, Nobukazu Takemura, Billie Holiday, Tortoise, Bob Dylan, DJ Shadow, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Ray Charles, Faye Wong, Leadbelly, Simon and Garfunkel, Takako Minekawa, the Notwist, Velvet Underground, FSOL, John Coltrane, Pixies, Randy Newman, Miles Davis, Brian Eno, Gabor Szabo, Air, Kid Loco, Yoko Kanno, Dusty Springfield, Nirvana, Henryk Gorecki, Sigur Ros, Woody Guthrie, Yo La Tengo, Max Bruch, The Pillows, Glenn Gould, Peanut Butter & the Jams, Bjork, Lonnie Donnegan, Bob Dorough (Schoolhouse Rock), Cat Power, Dick Dale, Gabriel Faure, Sly and the Family Stone, Four Tet, Gorillaz, Nilsson, Johnny Cash, Karie Kahimi, Ennio Morricone, Luis Enriquez Bacalov, Maria Callas, Mercury Rev, Os Mutantes, the Spiders, the entire music catalogs of Warp, Matador and Naxos, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Wilco, the Pastels, Blonde Redhead, Autechre, Beach Boys, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, f*ckin BEETHOVEN, soundtracks to old NES games, Broadcast, the Doors, Buffalo Daughter, a hundred local bands who rock my pants off, Willie Nelson and everything else I've ever heard
Movies:
anything by Akira Kurosawa, Orson Welles, Shinichiro Watanabe, Mamoru Oshii, Ingmar Bergman, Kaige Chen, Zhang Yimou, Chris Cunningham, Hayao Miyazaki, Art Clokey, Jim Henson, Studio4C, Wong Kar Wai, the Big Blue by Luc Besson, the Marx Brothers, Frank Capra, most of the stuff on TCM actually... old classics with William Holden, Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, Gene Kelly, etc etc etc....
Books:
Steinbeck, Fitzgerald, Hesse, David Hawkins, Plato, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Zohar, Kojiki, St. Teresa, whatever else falls off the shelf, The Little Prince by Saint Exupery, poorly translated instruction manuals, other people's diaries
Influences:
you, my friend.
Addictions:
grief, cookies, chinese people
Movies
My animations

Lemon Street...

Funny
Hits:169
Creator Info
Software knowledge:
Construction Paper, Glue Sticks, Lightwave, Maya, Photoshop, AfterEffects, ZBrush, MotionBuilder, RealFlow, Syflex, Flash, ProTools, FLStudio, Sound Forge, Duct Tape