lundi 22 décembre 2008

IGN-Best of 2008-PSP Awards.

Patapon 1 receive 5 Awards from "IGN" :)
-Game of the Year
-Best Artistic Design
-Best Music/Rythm Game
-Best Original Score
-Best new IP

Thanks!
It's a great Christmas gift for me! :)

mercredi 3 décembre 2008

Rolitoland "Petit Voyage" exhibition



I'm proud to announce that Lapnet Ship Art Space in Tokyo will host my first solo exhibition featuring Rolitoland works, PSP demo to try Patapon 2 & more...
If you're in town, please check it out!

ROLITOLAND "PETIT VOYAGE"
From 2008-12-12 To 2008-12-25

Lapnet Ship
Art Space and Shop 1F, 1-9-11 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0001
Opening hours: 11:00 AM- 8:00 PM

Patapon X Medicom (4)



Few days after the cute Patapon's powerfull warriors phone straps, let me show you a
new Medicom lovely item : the Patapon’s plush. Arms and legs are bendables & the plush stand up!
I really love it … and I hope you’ll love it too :)

jeudi 27 novembre 2008

Patapon 2 : "Don Chaka" Japan release!



Princess, giant spider, rabbit, eggs, mammoth, flying units, living castle, magician, music fever & many more!
PATA PATA PATA PON :)

mardi 25 novembre 2008

Patapon x Medicom (3)



Here is the second Patapon Be@rbrick, a Patapon pattern for the serie 17.
This serie will also feature Mickey Mouse and Alexander Girard amongst others.
Release date December 08.
Enjoy! :)

mercredi 29 octobre 2008

vendredi 24 octobre 2008

Patapon x Medicom (2)



Five little badass warriors ready to protect your phone! (or anything else)
Release date December 08 by Medicom.
Special thanks to Ryu and Jun.



PS: This is also a very powerfull talisman who can bring you glory, money & love.
But that's another story.

lundi 20 octobre 2008

dimanche 19 octobre 2008

"I love you too"

Here is a Flickr called "We love Rolito" where more than one hundred members are posting pictures of my babies.
Of course I'm really proud of the attention raised by my creations, but, more important, this is giving me the desire to continue creating new toys.
Thanks a lot! :)

samedi 18 octobre 2008

Blog

I was interviewed by the very interresting "Some Cool Stuff"
french blog.

lundi 13 octobre 2008

Patapon 2 @ TGS



Here are some pictures of Patapon 2 corner in Sony booth during the Tokyo Game Show.
Pata Pata Pata Pon! :)

vendredi 10 octobre 2008

Rolitoland X Domestic



French Wizards from Domestic launch their new project "The New Domestic Landscapes"
A very fresh panoramic wallpapers collection (4 metres wide by 3 metres high).
Available now at Domestic.

lundi 29 septembre 2008

Engraved



Zune Originals release his New Artist Series Designs.
4 new laser-engraved artworks by MWM, Ippei Gyoubu, Aya Kato & me.
Enjoy!

jeudi 18 septembre 2008

Taichiro !



Here is Taichiro, the Devilrobots sixth member, the secret one :)

vendredi 4 juillet 2008

Magazine



You can read a great review about Patapon in the first issue of Amusement, a new magazine devoted to the videogame, with a fresh vision.
I also was recently interviewed by the very cool Blackpool magazine issue 10.
Check this out !

jeudi 29 mai 2008

Still Alive projects.01


I really enjoy comic books, I’ve read thousands of those…
It was one of my dreams to draw one, but except small incursions and other tries, I never really took the plunge.
Until one of my “Heroes”, a famous French comics artist and also “directeur de collection” of one of the biggest French comics editor called me :
"Hi Rolito, if you have a pen, some paper and a computer I would like you to create your own comics".
I let you imagine my mood after this phone call. :)
I thus restarted one of my old projects: U.U.U.
In complicity with Run, we drew a storyboard and a few pages.
Because one of my other projects is engrossing all my time, this one is going forward very slowly.
U.U.U belongs to these projects which are really important to me, but should not be “finished” before a long time.
Even if I continue to work on it (in a very erratic way) I still do not know whether in the end it will be a Comic book or Picture Book…
Wait & see:)

mercredi 28 mai 2008

Book



My good friend Jaime Hayon just released his first monograph : "Jaime Hayon works"
This exciting book - full of amazing projects - is published by Die Gestalten Verlag and contains beautiful pictures by photographer Nienke Klunder.

Here are the "Rolitoboy vision" he created for the Rolitoboy Mini Book in 2005.

mardi 27 mai 2008

I love Toys.02



From my last trip to Tokyo, I brought back a vinyl figure produced by the famous Japanese company called Marmit (thanks Don!).
This beautiful & mysterious figure is based on one of the DOGU (pronounced dough-goo) clay idol from the Jomon Japanese period (10 000 BC - 400 B.C ).
There are many theories on what they were used for. A talisman for good health or safe childbirth, goddesses’ representation, toys for children, funerary offerings, or objects used in some unknown ritual.
As you can see on the illustration (second picture), some people think that this Dogu strange figurine represent some "strange visitor" with space suit :).
I love this figure, we are really far away from all the "designer toys" frenzy production and that's a good point :).

dimanche 16 mars 2008

Domestic X Rolitoland



Domestic launch their new Vinyl Collection.
Available now at Domestic.

samedi 1 mars 2008

Les Cheveux de B - Rolitoland secret place n°105



Illustration for the book published in 2006 called:
"If you don't want to be perfect, you've come to the right place"
by my very talented friend b.wing.
Enjoy !

mardi 26 février 2008

Patapon US Release!

vendredi 22 février 2008

mardi 12 février 2008

Patapon Bearbrick

lundi 4 février 2008

Lego, Unesco, Parco, Tokyo, Rolito...



The second charity art exhibits of world heritage “PIECE of PEACE - World Heritage Exhibit Built With LEGO -” has started at Shibuya PARCO in Tokyo. In addition to the world model pieces of world heritage built with Lego, the content “Love People” is included this time showing art messages from international artists from various fields. The theme is “my treasure to be carried down in the future”.



Date: 1st - 25th Feb, 2008
Place: Shibuya PARCO Part1