Nurbs at work

Cartoon love is shared amongst us Nurbs. Who doesn’t like to watch fantasy literally come to life on your screen. Not to mention the limitless amount of hours the creators have to put the make everything work right: Think about the graphics, art-work, storyboard, plot, character growth. etc. It is a HUGE checklist that has to be checked to be able to publish even one episode that happens to last anything between 1 – 200 minutes (Depending if the published format is a trailer, episode or a movie). But let’s get to what this post is really about, eh?

The art work in Afro Samurai is AWESOME!. It is something we really like here in the office. Keep in mind that the cartoon is highly graphical and has a lot of violence and is not suited for younger viewers. It is a mature story-line following a sort of african/japanese type of character who is a modern but still old fashioned samurai.

Afro Samurai
“Japanese dōjinshi manga series created by Takashi Okazaki, originally featured in the NOU NOU HAU dōjin magazine. It was adapted into a 5-episode anime miniseries directed by Fuminori Kizaki and produced by Gonzo, a Japanese animation studio. The first episode was shown online on January 1, 2007 and premièred on Spike TV on January 4, 2007 at 11:00pm EST. The anime series has since gone on to air in Canada, the UK and the US, where it premiered on SPIKE TV on May 4, 2007, and Japan, where it was broadcast on Fuji Television. It also premiered on MTV in Australia in August 2007.^[3] The anime series features noted American actor Samuel L. Jackson as the voice of the titular character and his sidekick, as well as one of the co-producers, and also features Ron Perlman and Kelly Hu as character voices. Wu-Tang Clan member RZA produced the original hip hop musical score, which was released on compact disc by Koch Records on January 30, 2007 in both uncut and edited versions.” – Wikipidia

Here is a cool trailer that will get your juices flowing, or better yet. Their juices flowing! :-P
For more information on the series, check out the extensive Wikipidia description!