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Sketchtravel Raises Funds for San Francisco Exhibit
posted on by Egan Loo
The artists need to raise US$12,000 on the Kickstarter website in four weeks, or the exhibition will be cancelled. Pixar, where Tsutsumi worked on Toy Story 3 and other films, hosted a "teaser" version of exhibition last year.
Each artist drew a piece of artwork in the book and passed it on to the next artist over a four-and-a-half year period beginning in September 2006. The 120-page sketchbook traveled through 12 countries including Japan in that time. Japanese animators and manga artists who contributed to the book include:
- Atsuko Fukushima (Kiki's Delivery Service, Akira, Magnetic Rose)
- Taiyo Matsumoto (Tekkonkinkreet, Ping Pong, No. 5)
- Kōji Morimoto (Fist of the North Star, Comedy, The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love?)
- Hayao Miyazaki (My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away)
- Katsuya Terada (Blood: The Last Vampire, Monkey King, Silk Road Kids)
- Daisuke Tsutsumi (Toy Story 3, Ice Age)
Miyazaki's contribution is on the last page of the book. Over the course of three days in January 2011, he drew a two-page spread of young Japanese boy in front of a plane. (The artwork appears in the center of the photograph above.) Not coincidentally, anime director Osamu Kobayashi (Beck, Paradise Kiss) reported last month that Hayao Miyazaki's latest work will tell the story of the designer of the Zero Fighter, the Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter aircraft used by the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.
Chronicles Books published the book in Europe last October, and the original copy of the book was auctioned that month for 70,000 Euros (about US$96,200). Chronicles Books also published the book in the United States this month, as did Asukashinsha in Japan.
Depending on the level of contribution, donors will receive special gifts (pictured below).
[Via tsk06]
