Podcasts about Ninjatown

Shawn co-founded a unique character design studio, Shawnimals—created with his wife over 10 years ago. Hundreds of characters inhabit those worlds and live through toys, murals, and videogames. The ninjas from Ninjatown transformed from handmade plush toys to vinyl creations, posters, stickers, calendars, keychains, and mobile apps. He grew up admiring Japanese and American pop-culture, with a passion that morphed from early doodles to characters like the Wee Ninja from Ninjatown, Moustachios, Pocket Pork Dumplings, and many, many more. His designer toys have seen success with Kidrobot and Rotofugi, apparel with Mimoco, David and Goliath, and Smash Transit. Shwan created original art for companies like MailChimp, Basecamp, LiveNation, Twisted Hyppo, Dark Matter Coffee, Cards Against Humanity, Revolution Brewing, and others—not to mention comics, and video games for Nintendo, iOS, and Android.

Shawn Smith is the creative mind behind the vast world of whimsical art, illustration and collectibles known as Shawnimals (https://www.shawnimals.com/) and Ninjatown (http://www.ninjatown.com/) . His imaginative characters and humourous stories extend to original paintings and large-scale murals, too—always with an aim to delight and inspire. Shawn's latest entrepreneurial endeavor, Resketch (http://resketchbook.com) , produces creative sketchbooks and notepads for artists, designers, journalers, and note-takers, made from high-quality reclaimed paper. He's also the Creative Director for Chicago's own Twisted Hippo Brewing Company (http://www.ninjatown.com/) . Shawn is dad to his a 6-year-old son. In this episode, Shawn shares how he makes distinctions between hobbies, side hustles and businesses, ways he brings structure and discipline to his studio practice, how death and loss puts everything in perspective, and what to say to an expectant dad. Keep up with Shawn → Twitter (https://twitter.com/shawnimal) Instagram (https://instagram.com/shawnimals)

Sorry about the unintended hiatus, folks. But were back with another wonderful and exciting episode of the Error Machine Podcast, this week covering topics like Miitomo, the Battleborn beta, the updates to The Division and Destiny, and much more. Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast, our YouTube page, and our Facebook page! 2.55 Changes to our next retrospective 7.30 Miitomo-Mania 16.00 Miitomo YouTube videos? 18.00 Luke played Fire Emblem Fates Conquest 21.50 Chris played the Division/Destiny updates 27.45 Dustin played the Battleborn beta 32.30 Star Fox Zero discussion 41.40 Ninjatown was amazing 43.15 New releases 52.00 Gun maker creates real NES Zapper 54.40 Game developer denounces game developers for complaints 57.40 Amazing New 3DS only coming to Japan 1.00.30 Outro/Plugs

ABOUT OUR GUEST He's the creator of Shawnimals, NinjaTown, ReSketch and a whole lot more. His work has been covered by NY Times, Entertainment Weekly, Spin Magazine, Elle Girl Korea, MTV.com and more. He's based in Chicago. IN THIS EPISODE It's a long episode because we talk about a LOT! During the interview we cover designer toys, working a niche, perils of over saturation, scaleability, working with major distributors like ThinkGeek.com, Quality, the importance of community, the starving artist mythology, and a whole lot more. Full show notes here.

This week: Shawn Smith, my hero. An artist who makes a living, is clearly having a good time, and is a damn nice guy. Along with his talented team he produces all things Shawnimals. I secretly long to live in Ninjatown. Also, I am now under contract to play Feroshi in the feature film. Coppola is directing. www.shawnimals.com www.ninjatown.com http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ninjatown-trees-of-doom!/id369997638?mt=8

This week, the gang talks about scary stuff like the Taliban and Cthulu and God's toothpick, it must be huge! We talk confirmed delays (Gears 3), rumored cancelations (Ninjatown 2) and save the dates (the NY Comic-Con meetup). Minecraft is our reccession game and new favorite thing. Lastly, we respond to your letters and voice mails. Listening to this podcast will not give you bed bugs, promise.

This week, the gang talks about scary stuff like the Taliban and Cthulu and God's toothpick, it must be huge! We talk confirmed delays (Gears 3), rumored cancelations (Ninjatown 2) and save the dates (the NY Comic-Con meetup). Minecraft is our reccession game and new favorite thing. Lastly, we respond to your letters and voice mails. Listening to this podcast will not give you bed bugs, promise.

This week's episode starts of with the predictable ''What We've Been Playing'' and it was quite the interesting bag o' games. We talked about Prototype, Punch-Out!!, Red Faction: Guerrilla, Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword, Ninjatown, Hakuna Matata (Afrika), Gunstar Heroes, and much more! We follow that up with some gaming news including the announcement of Battlefield 3, the Left 4 Dead 2 boycott, and the sad fact that Criterion Games (Burnout Devs) is working on a Need for Speed game.

Hablamos de los mejores juegos de Nintendo DS del año: Ninjatown, Professor Layton and the Curious Village, Dragon Ball Origins, N+, Crono Trigger, Rune Factory 2: A Fantasy Harvest Moon, Space In...

This week: mik from The Fanboys Lunchcast joins CJ and Phil to talk about interactive electronic entertainment, and discuss the game tapes we are all currently imbibing. Those include Dead Space, Motorstorm Pacific Rift, Fallout 3, Little Big Planet, Ninjatown, Guitar Hero World Tour, Rock Band 2, Singstar Vol. 2, Banjo-Kazooie Nuts & Bolts (demo), Mirror's Edge (demo), Valkyria Chronicles (demo), Resistance 2 (beta) and Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia.Thanks for listening! You can leave us a voicemail comment by calling 713-893-8069 or you can send a comment via MP3 to our email address, playeronepodcast@gmail.com. Don't forget to join our forums if you haven't already!This week's links: The Fanboys LunchcastFrancois Bertrand (Fight for Life)

Direct from the Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle, Washington--a super-sized episode of the Player One Podcast. This week: Thoughts and/or Impressions of games at PAX including Resistance 2, Wipeout HD, Rhythm Heaven, Guitar Hero World Tour, Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood, Midnight Club: Los Angeles, Ninjatown, Dragon Ball Origins, Wii Music, Tales of Vesperia, Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm, Rock Band 2, Little Big Planet, Motorstorm Pacific Rift and Need for Speed Undercover.Plus, a number of segments featuring special guests Shawn Smith (of Shawnimals/Ninjatown), Patrick Klepek (of MTV Multiplayer), Bryan Intihar (of Insomniac Games) and Shane Bettenhausen (of 1UP/EGM). Many thanks to everyone who agreed to spend a little time recording with us.Thanks for listening! You can leave us a voicemail comment by calling 713-893-8069 or you can send a comment via MP3 to our email address, playeronepodcast@gmail.com. Don't forget to join our forums if you haven't already!This week's links:Penny Arcade ExpoNinjatownMTV MultiplayerInsomniac Games1UPJoystiq: Darth Vader and Stormtroopers Rock to AlanisPAX in a buttshell digg_url = 'http://www.digg.com/podcasts/Player_One_Podcast'; digg_bgcolor = '#FFCC99'; digg_skin = 'compact';

This week we welcome ex-Electronic Gaming Monthly editor and Shawnimals creator Shawn Smith to the program for 90 minutes of chatting about games, ye olden days of EGM, and what it's like to leave a video game magazine, start a line of designer plush and then turn that work into a video game—Southpeak Interactive's recently announced Ninjatown for Nintendo DS.Plus we talk about the games we've been playing in the past week and go over a few of last week's big headlines. Thanks for listening! You can leave us a voicemail comment by calling 713-893-8069 or you can send a comment via MP3 to our email address, playeronepodcast@gmail.com. Don't forget to join our forums!This week's links:ShawnimalsNinjatownSonic the Hedgehog 2Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade SquadronSudoku 2007 NESDonkey Kong Jungle ClimberHeavenly SwordPersona 3Blue DragonPixelJunk RacersSpider-Man Friend or Foe digg_url = 'http://www.digg.com/podcasts/Player_One_Podcast'; digg_bgcolor = '#FFCC99'; digg_skin = 'compact';