Studio Ghibli

Studio Ghibli has been around since 1985 and to this day they are still creating some of the best animated film in history. With the most highly rated animated feature film under there belt its no surprise that there characters have become icons in there own right. With films like Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Howls Moving Castle and grave of the Fireflies they have put there names in not only the anime industry but the animation industry from all around the world. The company also has colse ties to Disney who license there films for overseas and the famed co founder/ director of many of the films Hayao Miyazaki just happens to be a good friend of John Lasseter.

More Makoto Shinkai work

Recently I have found some more Imagery from Makoto Shinkai's movies, mainly in the form on landscapes and I just find them breathtaking and almost realistic looking.

Redbubble

Redbubble is a webiste where artists from around the world can sell there designs on things like t-shirts and hoodies. It allows you to by unique designs on pretty much any sort of franchise, universe or fandom there is, from iconic movies, video games, TV icons, anime and much much more. If you're looking for something unique that you wont find on any other website, redbubble is the place.
http://www.redbubble.com/

Qwertee

Qwertee is a brilliant website for finding cheap t-shirts with fantastic original designs from aspiring artists. The themes tend to be related to TV, movies, anime, comics and games with each t-shirt only being available for 2 days. They have a high Quality print on the t-shirt and they are really cheap for what you get. For anyone who is a pure Geek at heart this site is perfect to find stuff for your geeky wardrobe.

http://www.qwertee.com/

My Qwertee purchases 

Studio Ghibli Influence

I've seen many ideas for Studio Ghibli T-shirts online and even brought one myself. And after looking at some designs I had an idea for one of my own using one of the most iconic characters from their film My Neighbor Totoro, Its the Catbus. Its not only the Catbus that inspires me from Ghibli but the style in general, they create weird and wonderful characters and scenery that even people who have no idea what its from would want it on a T-shirt.

Photograms

A photogram is a photographic image made without a camera by placing objects directly onto the surface of a light-sensitive material such as photographic paper and then exposing it to light. The usual result is a negative shadow image that shows variations in tone that depends upon the transparency of the objects used. Areas of the paper that have received no light appear white; those exposed through transparent or semi-transparent objects appear grey.

I personally enjoyed this process, it brings out a very interesting effect and it allows you to experiment with different materials to give different effects and make many types of image.

Makoto Shinkai

Recently I have discovered a Japanese Anime movie director called Makoto Shinkai. After watching a film of his called 5 Centimetres per second I was hooked, its not the story which attracts me to his work, it is the stunning visual he creates in his movies.

A iconic scene from 5 Centimetres per second

After his second piece of work/ his first feature length movie he had gained himself the the title of "The Next Miyazaki" by many critics. Anyone familiar with Studio Ghibli will know that Hayao Miyazaki is the great director behind many of their most well know films such as Spirited Away, My Neighbour Totoro and Howls's Moving Castle and also one of the studios founders. 

The Film that earned him the name "Next Miyazaki" The Place Promised In Our Early Days