Synch-Point Production Blog

Short message to let you know that the FLCL t-shirt Powered is available for pre-order at dot-anime.us.

Available in Youth Size Medium, and Men’s sizes Small through 2XL.

Happy shopping!

From the press release:

dot-anime.us Proudly Announcing Gunbuster T-Shirt Design Contest!

dot-anime.us has teamed up with Broccoli Gear to bring North American anime fans a GUNBUSTER T-shirt Design Contest!

Fans residing in the US and Canada can submit their own Gunbuster t-shirt design for a chance to get their design used for sale and win five (5) t-shirts of their design! And furthermore, the acclaimed studio GAINAX will be judging all the entries to select an officially licensed Gunbuster t-shirt!

Gunbuster fans and budding artists or designers can show off their creativity, passions and skills by submitting as many entries as they want starting 10/15/07 to 11/5/07. Fans can impress the best of best creators at the prestigious GAINAX!

The deadline for submissions is 11/5/07. The winner will be announced on 11/19/07.
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Contest Rules & Guidelines
1. Entries are only accepted for the original Gunbuster series. Gunbuster 2 designs will not be accepted.
2. Source material for artwork can be scanned from covers, promotional artwork, or any other official Gunbuster art. Original art will also be accepted, but the final design will be created using official Gunbuster artwork.
3. Please keep in mind that entries are for CONCEPT designs and final design may change from the original submission.
4. Multiple entries can be submitted by one person.
5. Entries must be emailed. No postal entries will be accepted. Please scan all paper entries.
6. Please keep file sizes under 500k for submissions. Only jpg, gif, and pdf submissions will be accepted.
7. Contest is only open to legal residents of the United States & Canada, who are at least 18 years old.
8. The deadline for submissions is 11/05/07.
9. Submit entries to contests@dot-anime.us with the following information:
a) full name
b) mailing address (for sending the prize)
c) valid email address
10. Design submissions become the property of Broccoli International USA, Inc.
11. Please read the official rules for entering the Gunbuster t-shirt design contest.

The information of the contest and full disclaimer can also be found at http://www.dot-anime.us/contest/

Happy designing!

We’ve been making FLCL t-shirts for 4 years.
And we recently started making Evangelion t-shirts.

And now we got the license to make Gunbuster t-shirts!

We have something planned for the Gunbuster t-shirt with Bandai Visual.
More information coming tomorrow!

Designer Chris went to pick up the 2007 calendar mock-up covers from our printer today.

We have a lot of calendars lined up for 2007.
There’s no official announcement of titles yet… but three are Broccoli related titles.

And one is somewhat-related-to-Broccoli title.

And one is an almost-related-to-Broccoli title.

Then there’s a sales-manager-Ardith-giggled-with-excitement title.

And a few more.

Speaking of merchandising… we’ve been receiving several pre-production samples from MythWear.

We like to ask our staff for opinions on products being made (by us or other companies). Graphics assistant Ryan & production intern Krystal really liked the red FLCL messenger bag featuring Haruko on her Vespa. Of course production intern Krystal came into her interview w/ a Nerv MythWear bag, so she’s an ideal market research-ee.

We also received a pre-production sample of the FLCL wallet, using designer Chris’ favorite FLCL image — Medical Mechanica. It’s a dark-grey wallet w/ black printing… so it’s really simple, but really cool.

There are a few more FLCL designs in the works.

And then there are Di Gi Charat messenger bags too. Some are embroidered, some are silk-screened. Puchiko lovers should be happy w/ the selection of Puchiko bags that will be available.

All the bags should be coming out real soon.

Today was a full day of *****-ing.
Saki & I forgot to take a digital camera, so we couldn’t take pictures today.

But I have a lot of quotes that can be used for a commentary track.

Tomorrow is another full day *****-ing.
We’ll make sure we take a digital camera this time around.

Then I’m off to Japan on the 16th to attend the Osaka Gift Show (merchandising convention), meetings w/ publishers, and for the Tokyo International Anime Fair.

I’ll keep blogging while I’m in Japan, even though it won’t have much to do w/ actual production. Unless I get updates from Fusako, the director of Di Gi Charat the Movie & Leave it to Piyoko, and Michael, the director of Aquarian Age the Movie.