Before going any further let me preface this with the fact I did NOT bring my camera.  I did not think I would have gotten in with it, only to get extremly “DOH!“ when so many people were running around with DSLR’s.

Back to the topic! This event was a Design Competition, they had 2D artists (Photoshop + Illustrator), 3D artists (Autodesk Maya), and Motion Graphics (I have no idea).  They had 5 projectors (4 showing contestants screen, 1 showing info + live video), projecting to ~85 in screens susspended in the air above the contestants; who each had a 21 in Citinq pen screen, and Mac Pro workstations!  There was also a DJ off to the side, Video camera man running around, amusing Japanese MC, and many judges walking around.  If this isn’t making your mouth water, your probably not a designer, ね？

This may sound incredibly serious event, with “Judges” and big screens; but rather it was a lively affair, as some of the compettitors would use there camera take pictures of people in the audiences and even use that in there works (which all had to be done in 15 minutes).  Also the Tokyo creative sphere has some of the most interesting people you might come across with (not just their looks, which are way above average ).  At times everyone was laughing at the sillyness of some of the creations, in one case an application crashing, or even just oooooooooh that is what he was doing!

It all ended around 9 PM, to which I was going to go do something afterwards, but my feet where dead and back a bit achy still from the school sports day.  I ended up just going home, finishing developing the sports day pictures and going to sleep~ (more on that later!)