Blog and Portfolio of Tokyo based web producer & illustrator, Hawken King.
Otsuka recruit
19th of Aug, 2001ce* in: animation, furifuri, illustration, pixelart
Above showing the sprite sheet for an animation I made.
The animation can be launched by clicking here
The text is missing from this movie as it was put in later (in japanese). One of my better pixel animations.
Furifuri Homepage animation
10th of Aug, 2001ce* in: animation, furifuri, illustration, pixelart
furifuri home page 2001~2002. so much class here!
(BTW click “go” button to see the rest of the animation once opened)
RMX
ce* in: dadako, furifuri, pixelart, print
My panel for a project called freshRMX. The theme of the project was “my home, my country” and was essentially open to interpretation. I decided to illustrate my journey from Cornwall in the UK (bottom) with various Cornish emblems, to life in Japan (top).
The final product was shown in an exhibition.
Furifuri Homepage
19th of Jun, 2001ce* in: furifuri, pixelart, websites
Above showing the sprite sheet for a website I made.
The website can be launched by clicking here, or in the archive below.
Furi Furi are based in Tokyo and design characters for promotional items and games, they aslo have a thiving toy business. While I was working for Furifuri, in a department called DV4, we handled web work and flash animation. This department was disbanded in 2002ce.
Boy and Girl
19th of May, 2001ce* in: furifuri, pixelart
Two pixelised characters for the Sega game “シャカっとタンバリン” (shake tambourine), original designs by Furifuri.
Boy and Girl 2
12th of May, 2001ce* in: furifuri, pixelart
pixel art based on original designs by Furifuri for Sega’s Medal game “お祈り大明神” (oinori daimyuujin)
wcrs london
28th of Apr, 2001ce* in: WCRS, pixelart, websites
Made just before I left for Tokyo to work for Furifuri, this is a design for the WCRS homepage that ran for about 2 years. (since 2001)
I remember we had an insane amount of problems getting the menu to work, as transparent effects were not really cross browser compatible at the time. In the end we found out that internet explorer and netscape on the PC could use a directX feature, while the Mac (on which we developed) could use PNG alpha, with a bit of Javascript serving to move it around / identify the platform.
PNG alpha has only just been supported on the PC, some 5 years late!
beatles helpgame sprites
2nd of Sep, 2000ce* in: kleber, pixelart, websites
Sprite sheet for the Beatles Helpgame.
It was a long time ago when we produced this game at Kleber, it all came about before “habbos hotel” (to claim second place on multiplayer isometric pixel chat rooms, after the legendary but forgotten Mobiles Disco). Not that it did us any good, myself and the programmer slogged it out for three months to make a game that was never publicised and is virtually unheard of. I did all the graphics and a lot of the game design.
The site has long since been offline, but I have linked a fan site in the archive in this post.
beatles helpgame backgrounds
1st of Sep, 2000ce* in: kleber, pixelart
It was a long time ago when we produced this game at Kleber, it all came about before “habbos hotel” (to claim second place on multiplayer isometric pixel chat rooms, after the legendary but forgotten Mobiles Disco). Not that it did us any good, myself and the programmer slogged it out for three months to make a game that was never publicised and is virtually unheard of. I did all the graphics and a lot of the game design.
The objective of this game is to navigate the many rooms as one member of the Beatles, then to find your instrument. When all of the 4 Beatles within the game have got their correct instruments (ringo must have the drums etc) then you can proceed to finish the game.
The site has long since been offline, but I have linked a fan site in the archive in this post.
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It is built using coda on a mac, runs on wordpress and follows the 100%E2R mandate.
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