The Architect Bjarke Ingels again coorporated with Artemide. The result is the Golpe pendant lamp. A combination of traditional craftsmanship and modern technology. The shade is venetian-handblown glass and the lighting is a red, white and blue LED optimized for plants. The glass is finished in white, transparent silver and transparent bronze. It was just displayed at the London Design Festival 2018
The ending illustration for Shingeki no Kyojin Season 3 Episode 12 (Also episode 49 total), featuring Erwin and the Survey Corps drawn by Animation Director Teshima Mai!
From the animation studio behind The Legend of Korra and Voltron: Legendary Defender, meet KOJI: Studio Mir’s first original series
Up until now, Studio Mir’s stunning, legendary animation has been reserved for work contracted out by other companies– Nickelodeon for Korra, DreamWorks for Voltron, Lego for Secrets of Elvendale, etc.
But now, very excitingly, they’ve announced their first original series: Koji.
Koji comes from the mind of Alexander Snow, an animator who has a prolific resume including Disney, Blue Sky Studios, and the production company he co-founded in 2016: Wolfbat Studios. (Not sure if the name being the same as Tahno’s pro-bending team is a coincidence…)
It’s unclear how much Wolfbat Studios as a whole is involved, but their website does feature an old concept demo reel for Koji, which looks really cool:
It also gives us a look at who may be the second main character:
Studio Mir really loves their elves! 😂
In all seriousness, this looks really cool, and we’ve been told to keep an eye out for “for more updates coming fast”, so it seems like this could be coming sooner rather than later!
This announcement coincides with Studio Mir launching their official instagram: @studiomir_official. It looks like the bulk of the content coming our way will be posted there, so be sure to follow them, as well as our #koji tag on here for the big updates coming soon!
Update: Just found a bunch more information from the original 2016 press release, including a synopsis, backstory, inspirations (including ATLA!), themes/issues covered, and more! It’s a lot so it’s going under a readmore:
It oftens shows up in a few key scenes throughout berserk and I never really thought much of it. But when you examine this more closely you find out some interesting things:
As you can probably tell, the tree is healthy state and growing (except during his birth perhaps) throughout the golden age arc:
During Lost Children Arc the tree he rested under was outright possessed. Guts himself was pretty much a Lost Child back then too:
What’s also interesting: he is literally fighting the tree in Lost
Children. During Golden age, you usually find him resting against it or
taking shelter below it. Is that a metaphor for Guts fighting
against his own nature…?
And I absolutely love how the tree is normal, but all shrivelled up and dead when Farny joins Guts and Puck (very fitting to Guts’ mental state at the time!!!).
And considering all this, this page becomes even more intriguing:
Is it just me or is the tree a metaphor for Guts’ state of mental health…?
Stressed, Depressed, and Story Obsessed 