Shunya Yamashita
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Shunya Yamashita (山下しゅんや) is a professional character designer and illustrator born on November 15, 1970 in the Saitama prefecture in Japan. He is well-known for his video game character designs and pin-up style artworks of females, mostly heroines from comics.
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Shunya Yamashita worked for Square Enix in the year 2000. He designed characters, weapons and NPCs (Non Player Characters) for Square Enix CO.’s Final Fantasy X and Enix Corporation’s MMO, Depth Fantasia in 2001–Sadly, Depth Fantasia was put to halt by November 13, 2005. While working on Square Enix, Shunya was responsible for the non-player and second player character designs and some character illustrations for Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria naming Einferia.
In 2004, Shunya Yamashita made Card Illustrations for Dex Entertainment’s Alteil. In 2005, he became an events illustrator for Nippon Ichi Software’s Makai Kingdom which was released in Japan as Phantom Kingdom and he also made character illustrations for Nihon Falcom Corporation’s Xanadu: Next.
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Shunya Yamashita published by Kotobukiya CO.,LTD. in June 10, 2008, One Voice Shunya Yamashita Anthology III published in July 2010, One Voice: Shunya Yamashita Illustrations III also published by Kotobukiya CO.,LTD. in September 15, 2010 and other art books by game companies he participated in like Depth Fantasia, Makai Kingdom, Xanadu: Next, adult game Gakuen Tengoku. Shunya Yamashita also made some charater illustrations for the Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Unlimited.
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And he does not stop there. As he is known to draw voluptuous heroines, he can also draw muscular and armored protagonists, as well as vicious and dark villains and mechas/mechs. His works are not only given life in the world of traditional art but can also be seen materialized as Fraulein Revoltechs.
“Fraulein Revoltech Collections” and Pocco was the only figure there that caught my eye. “Fraulein” means a “girl” or “daughter” in German and a “Revoltech” is a figure which means dolls with movable joints that you can twist, bend, or move the limbs to a position that you want the dolls to exhibit.
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Shunya Yamashita also made renditions of some characters from other animés. Aside from Shunya Yamashita’s Fraulein Revoltechs, he also collaborated with Kotobukiya that produced porcelain and plastic Bishoujo Figures that are highly acclaimed by graphic novel fans and figure collectors around the world. The characters that he drew and published on art books are based from the illustrations that he created for Kotobukiya. If you are a Japanese enthusiast, you might have heard of bishōjo/bishoujo (美少女) which is a Japanese term literally meaning a “beautiful young girl”. A term which can be seen depicted in Shunya Yamashita’s works.
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May these designs be with you
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We just love Star Wars–I mean, who doesn’t? Now let these cute Star Wars accessories and prints repay us with even more rainbows and lovelier designs.
Let us start with this cute little Tatooine resident Baby Jawa. I’ve never seen a vectorized Tatooine character like this. And I think that It’ll geekify your walls when printed and placed in a photo album.
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An Awesome Shopping Experience
Finally, A whole new shopping experience for people do grocery with ease. Tesco’s ingenious online shopping strategy had just got even better. Tesco Home Plus designed an augmented shopping catalog inside the train stations of South Korea. These virtual catalogs stood before the train entrance so that people could initially see Tesco products that are available for shopping.
Shopping with Tesco had been easy for people residing in South Korea nowadays because of the virtual catalog. The only requirement in able for shoppers to use the virtual catalog service and successfully purchase via their phone is that their phones must have a wireless connection available so that the phone could connect to the net and sync their order with their online account. A QR Code scanner is also required because every item displayed on the virtual catalog has a QR Code printed beside it so that user can take pictures or QR Scan them and initiate a purchase.
Here is a of the snapshots of the Tesco Virtual Catalog.
And if you want see how this QR-shopping is done, then here is a link of a video demo of Tesco’s Virtual Catalog.
Online shopping users must first register and set up their account via Tesco’s website with Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox as a recommended browser. After a couple of account verifications and payment method configurations, users must indicate their exact mailing address for the purpose of having their purchased goods to be delivered right at their doorstep.
Then they must check out the My Usuals page under their accounts and they will see a list of items that are stacked before adding those to cart. Users can also search for any desired item and the Tesco page will inform them if the searched items are available. Adding the item in the favorites list is possible. After the purchase verification process is completed, users can choose a time window displayed in a form of a table.
Tesco is an e-commerce website for people who are able to shop and purchase consumable goods online. Its retailing operations could support up to 14 different countries worlide.
Tesco UK
Tesco China
Tesco India
Tesco Malaysia
Tesco HomePlus (South Korea)
Tesco Lotus (Thailand)
Tesco Czeck Republic
Tesco Hungary
Tesco Ireland
Tesco Poland
Tesco Slovakia
Tesco Kipa
Tesco Fresh and Easy (United States)
Tesco Japan
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Rad Robots: Geek Accessories
These Ultimate Office Geek Gadgets Accessories will truly eat your 8-bit hearts out. I found out that these Radical Robots are cheap and Geek-class stylish so choose your Robo-minions below.
ROBO-CALCULATOR
This ingeniously designed robot calculator comes with a LED light on its right arm so you won’t miss a number when calculating in a dark area–or just playing with it. Robo-calculator has a clip on its left arm for holding pens, post-its, Robo-phazers, Robo-axe toys, action figure lightsabers, and any thing that you can think of. Robo-calculator’s feet are bonded with magnets that enables itself to stand on any metallic surface. Place it on your metal plated desk, on your fridge, or even on a whiteboard I don’t care.
Creative Headboard Designs
Cool and creative beds must come up with cool and creative headboard too. So here are my picks of the week of cool headboard designs.
Let’s start off with a revolving headboard from “De Sede”. It was designed by a Swish furniture company in Germany. The bed has a low-profile approach which gives it a nice couch-like feel and it gets even better when paired with the perfect minimalist objects and designs around the room. And it comes with a two-piece revolving headboard the enables you to place it on any direction around the bed. I bet you and your partner would have lots of fun experimenting with this De Sede revolving headboard bed.
As De Sede claims that ” standardized elements can be used for the slatted frames and mattresses thus allowing customers to choose their bed’s “inner selves” to suit their own individual requirements. These beds provide the ideal spot for virtually untrammelled dreaming – both by night and by day.”
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I personally like this one since it gives out a nice zen look when this bed is place in the middle of the bedroom
This is another version on De Sede's revolving headboard bed
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Gangs of Brooklyn Wall
“Gangs of Brooklyn Wall” was concept of by Vincent Sevilla, and Ian Carlo Magallanes curated by Digital Ninja Academy. Vincent Sevilla is a Digital Artist and a Photographer since 2009. He lives in the Philippines and focuses on new media as his career. Ian Magallanes is a Computer Engineer and also a photographer since 2008.
Digital Ninja Academy is a non-profit group composed of individuals that share information, art appreciation, and humor–until 9GAG happened. Digital Ninja Academy, commonly abbreviated as “DNA”, has a lot of participants in different countries. Some of the members of DNA came up with an idea to recreate manga and present it with the aid of photography and a bit of digital graphics and photo manipulation. And thus, they created the Gangs of Brooklyn Wall project.
The Gangs of Brooklyn Wall is an inspirational live Manga which came from (デュラララ!! or Dyurarara!!?). Here are some introductory and plot related pictures of the GBW or the Gangs of Brooklyn Wall project.
The artistic concept of the GBW live manga was the distorted hues of colors in pictures and the only manipulation made was the placement of the texts.
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This a photo from one of the chapters of the Gangs of Brooklyn Wall project wherein one of the characters named Ryo, just came out of jail.
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This is a photo of Ryo as “smith”, testing his SIG automatic rifle from the Negotiator’s stock shipment.
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This is a photo of Vicent Sevilla, member of the creative talents department and a co-founder of Digital Ninja Academy.
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This is a photo of Ian Magallanes as “The Negotiator”. A business-minded thug who is remarkable in closing deals and is skilled in handling firearms.
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This is a photo of Luigi Domingo as “The Brawler” of GBW. Specialized in Mixed Martial Arts and swift hand-to-hand combat, he aims to rip all of his enemies apart.
Sadly, The Gangs of Brooklyn Wall project was put on a halt. The reason was the graphic designers wanted to change the whole concept and make it a movie or a short film with special effects instead.
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Eduardo Naranjo
“Contemplation of Wrist”
(1971) Oil on canvas: 85 x 68 cm
Born in August 25, 1944, in Monesterio (Badajoz) from a family of small farmers, the magnificently gifted and imaginative realism and surrealism artist, Eduardo Naranjo (Monesterio-Badajoz) had a talent in painting even at an early age. His latest works or paintings were mostly focused on realism with a magical touch of poetry and drama.
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BIG pictures deserve BIG captions
All the best pictures with all the weird captions from all the great stories. Have I said it enough?
Don’t Worry, I’ve Got This
This is a photo of a Pakistan Military Rescue Mission pilot carrying a man who appears to be a flood victim taken to a rescue helicopter. The soldier looked so cool in this picture with his red fluffy beard and his military suit. I almost thought of him as a character in an arcade or a Utopian guy in the 80′s.
