The Place Promised in Our Early Days

The Evolution of Chobi the Cat

Posted April 4th, 2008 by Nick
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One thing that has struck me about Makoto Shinkai is how his style had evolved over the years, and watching through all of his short films emphasized that point. He’s always been an expert at the little details, and the background scenery was gorgeous from the start. Paying proper homage to Chobi the cat seemed to be seemed to be the hard part, though. Here's four shots that have little to do with that point.

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Chobi in The Place Promised In Our Early Days

Posted April 4th, 2008 by Nick
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Chobi in The Place Promised In Our Early Days

Chobi in a cameo appearance in The Place Promised in Our Early Days.

Added Masthead Images

Posted January 26th, 2007 by Nick
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I've went through the images I had for Shinkai's The Place Promised in Our Early Days and created about 60 more masthead images to rotate through. I may add more, but those 60 were still quite a bit of work to go through.

I do know that several of those images have white areas on the bottom-left that interfere with the white site-name text. I can modify those images to add a bit of tinting to the bottom of them (and clouding the gorgeousness of Shinkai's animation), create a PNG or GIF image of the site-title text so I can make a bordered text that will show regardless of the background, or not bother. I think I'm going with the latter. Sorry, I'm lazy. Not like the name of this site is that much of a mystery, no? Sticking out tongue

Byousoku 5 Centimeter premier and The Place Promised in Our Early Days image gallery!

Posted January 25th, 2007 by Nick
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Byousoki 5 Centimeter ScreenshotThe Place Promised in Our Early Days screenshotWell, according to the Makoto Shinkai Fan Web (Who performs the wonderful service of translating tidbits from the official Byousoku 5 Centimeter site for us English-speaking Shinkai fans), the final edit of Shinkai's upcoming film had been completed sometime before this previous Tuesday (Jan. 23, 2007) and that it will premiere at the Cinema Rise theater in Tokyo in March 2007! Heck yeah I'm excited!

Check out the screenshots that I've captured from the high-definition preview trailer! You can also download the trailers themselves from the official site, and you can also find subtitled version if you look around (I.E., search on YouTube . I would do it for you, but YouTube was down for maintenance when I was writing this entry...).

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