Time for a new phone (suggestions welcome!)

22nd of May, 2007ce* in: blog

Well, after about a year and a half, I’m finally bored and quite bothered by my Sharp 903. It still says “vodafone” on it (which is quite embarrassing because they got taken over by softbank here in Japan last year!).

Reasons why I hate my phone:

the camera is slow
picture browsing is slow
nothing appears to work (can’t add mp3s or java, or use mp3 as ringtone)
Sharp phones are not supported by iSync (a must for my next phone)
text messages are limited to about 100, with no option save or backup
vibration is annoying as fuck, it vibrates for about a minute when receiving a simple text
the menu is truly retarded

So, hot on my list is the 705NK. Which has predictive text input for english (a rarity in Japan), and it’s made by Nokia, so it will probably sync with my mac, meaning I won’t have bother with two separate address books!

Also my contract is far too expensive.

And too many hentai are calling me.

NEC Cinema

16th of May, 2007ce* in: dadako, websites

NEC launched their Cinema site. My part to play in this project was to make and animate lots of little men and do a bit of illustration “direction” to find our feet at the start of the project. Very insane project with an even more insane deadlines, left me working over christmas and new year but it was well worth the extra grunting.

Illustrating part one took us a long time, the storyboard changed quite a bit from the outset. Part two was relatively straight forward, with some good room for creativity. All of the final animation is handled by Lessrain, I merely provided the right illustrations.

http://www2.nec.co.jp/theatre/en/index.html