(French below)
Today, Catsuka turns 24.
Although I haven't prepared something big for the occasion (apart from a new splash page, just for the old fun, more info below, and also video above), I did want to take a look back at what I've been doing with Catsuka.
First of all, I'd like to thank all those who have been following me for all these years, first on the Catsuka website, which has...
As you know, I like to make short video edits/recuts on my social networks, to give a taste and incite people to discover Catsuka picks and full videos from official channels.
And as you also know, for you my dear patrons, I like to make some "best-of" of these "CatsuKuts" :-]
So here's above a new selection of video recuts I made between October 2023 and March 2024.
The video is 52-min long, and you'll find below more infos and links related to each part.
Note : these re...
As you probably know, Akira Toriyama recently passed away.
And the tributes from artists around the world have touched me deeply.
So I made a new Catsuka sub-site bringing together some of these fanarts and animations (currently more than 400) :
https://www.catsuka.com/toriyama_tributes
I also made a video as a tribute to these tributes.
RIP, Tori-sama.2024-03-18 18:57:55 +0000 UTC
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Hi!
This isn't the sexiest update in Catsuka history, but it's still about Catsuka history: I finally developed an advanced search engine for Catsuka ;-]
Indeed, for more than 20 years, the "search" function of Catsuka website only allowed searching in Catsuka News.
And even if on most of the sub-sites of the Catsuka web ecosystem I already offered dedicated search engines, I had for a long time wanted to create a global tool allowing searches in almo...
A few days ago I started sharing a few episodes of "Mars Express" movie making-of, with English, Japanese and Chinese subtitles.
It follows the production of Jérémie Périn's film from almost the very beginning and writing sessions stage. This is a very well-made and fascinating behind-the-scenes project.
This long term documentary, which currently has 16 episodes of approximately 12 minutes each, was di...
Thanks again for supporting Catsuka on Patreon without expecting something in return. This means a lot to me, especially since I have already spent more than half of my life doing Catsuka alone and for free.
As you know, I like to make short video edits for my social networks, to incite people to go to watch the full works I select through official links/embeds from the original creators.
Here's a 26 min compilation/selection of some video recuts I made between March and Septe...
Dear patrons.
I made an update of the Catsuka Theater sub-site, with more than 100 new trailers of worldwide animated feature films.
https://www.catsuka.com/theater
I also added a new "Shuffle" option that allows you to see all available trailers, randomly and one after the other. Almost 24 hours of non-stop videos ;-]
2023-07-30 10:20:31 +0000 UTC
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Dear patrons,
Today (May 30th) is the 23th anniversary of Catsuka :-]
And 3 animation students surprised me by remembering this birthday, and offering me a new animation with Catsuka's mascots <3 (thanks to Edouard Delebecque, Aurélien Gretter, and Raphaël Séjourné, aka L'Intervalle).
So, to mark Catsuka's 23th birthday, and to thank again the...
2023-05-29 22:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I would like to thank again all the people who support me on Patreon, and who therefore support what I do with Catsuka without necessarily expecting anything in return. This means a lot to me, as I have been running Catsuka alone and in my free time for over 22 years, in a non-profit way, motivated by my sole passion for animation.
Here's above a selection of short video recuts I made between October and February to promote Catsuka picks on my social networks.
Catsuka Picks - Au...
Here's an early access to a new "Catsuka Special" video report !
Back in march 2022 with my friend Alex Pilot we went to Angoulême comic book festival for the french premiere of "Inu-Oh", the new animated movie directed by Masaaki Yuasa (Science Saru studio) who was also invited to host the screening, and to give a conference. An exhibition dedicated to the film was also held during the event.
We filmed all tho...
Today is the International Animation Day ! (even if medias usually don't talk about it)
So I decided to translate and make an english subbed version of a very short film called "What is Animation?", made by Paul Cabon made for
2022-10-28 15:40:57 +0000 UTC
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Here's above a selection of short video recuts I made past few months to promote Catsuka picks on my social networks :-]
Thanks for your support to Catsuka on Patreon !
Catsuka Picks - Spring/Summer 2022 :
- Ramayana
- 2022-10-01 01:39:37 +0000 UTC
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And here's a new upscale I made & with the video file for my Patrons :-]
This is the opening of "Ghost In The Shell" Playstation game (1997). Directed by Hiroyuki Kitakubo (Blood, Robot Carnival) with Toshihiro Kawamoto (Cowboy Bebop) as animation director at Production IG.
Legendary animators worked on this intro : Toshiyuki Inoue, Mitsuo Iso, Yoh Yoshinari, Ko Yoshinari, Koichi Arai, Hisashi Ezura, Yasushi Muraki, and Tosh...
I made a new upscale, and here's the video file for my Patrons :-]
This time I wanted to make an HD version of a longer video : all the cutscenes from classic "Time Gal" video game (Taito / Toei Animation, 1985).
Legendary animators like Toshiyuki Inoue & Satoru Utsunomiya worked on this quick-time-event game.
This 35min footage comes directly from the Laserdisc edition of Time Gal (Mega-LD / LaserActive).
I used 2 AI models + some custom fixes to transform thi...
Dear Patrons,
I am pleased to launch a new Binge! section today on the Catsuka Player, where I added more than 16,000 episodes of animated series, as well as some movies and OVAs.
All these videos are visible for free and legally (they come from official Youtube channels).
2022-07-11 16:23:07 +0000 UTC
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Hi ! I made Catsuka hand fans for this summer !
And I would love to send one hand fan to each patron of Catsuka.
If you're interested, please send me an email on tsuka@catsuka.com (using your email address used on Patreon) with your postal address :-)
Thanks for your support !
Tsuka
Dear Patrons
Just to let you know that I added a small new feature on Catsuka website : "CatsuKuts".
These are the short video recuts I make since few years to push Catsuka's picks on my social networks.
More than 250 videos are now playing randomly on all pages of Catsuka.com (in the right part of the interface on desktop, and at the bottom on mobile), with links to the original sources.
2022-04-30 14:51:07 +0000 UTC
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Thanks for your support to Catsuka on Patreon !
Here's above a 30-min compilation of video recuts I made past few months to promote my animations picks on Catsuka social networks (some of these video edits are also featured in the header of the Catsuka Player).
I'm not a professionnal video editor, but I love to make people discover the animations & artists I select on Catsuka, that's why I enjoy to make...
I wish you a happy new year !
This month I started to look at the world of AI / machine learning in terms of upscaling, because I want to try to *restore* some old animations only available in crappy resolutions.
I started with the cutscenes of "Popolocrois" Playstation game (1996), only available in 320x224px on the original game disc....
Dear patrons,
I just made an update of the "Catsuka Theater" today, with 150 new trailers !
https://www.catsuka.com/theater
Catsuka Theater is one of my special Catsuka sub-sites, and this one (created in 2015) is dedicated to worldwide animated feature films trailers.
I love to (re)watch movie trailers, so I made this web interface which *looks* like a theater room.
You can sort the tr...
2021-11-14 22:44:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi !
For Catsuka's patrons only :-) : here's an exclusive preview of "Hideaki Anno Exhibition" that opened in Tokyo at the beginning of October.
I made a special gallery with more than 300 pictures :
https://www.catsuka.com/focuson/hideaki_anno_exhibition
And I also made a fan-trailer of this exhibition that you can see above.
I'll make available both ...
2021-10-13 11:57:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Some of the video montages I made for Catsuka's summer 2021 picks :-] (see video above)
All In (The Line)
Colours (Takumi Tanji)
(french below)
10 years ago I curated an exhibition dedicated to Satoshi Kon for Japan Expo festival (which took place 3 times in 2011, in Marseille, Paris and Orleans).
I asked to french artists that I knew to make tribute illustrations to the memory of the director who died the previous year.
10 years later, I found rushes filmed by a friend (thanks Anthony), I decided to make a souvenir video (above), and also to update the website of the exhibition that I had also create...
2021-06-27 20:11:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Today Catsuka turned 21 !
During one year, more than 200 artists paid tribute to Catsuka for its 20th anniversary.
This was the "Mascots Party", with animations and illustrations featuring Catsuka's mascots.
And today I published the "Catsuka Mascots Party" : a 42-min video with all these creations !
Full video >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN3cwMqfzXM
Trailer...
2021-05-30 20:14:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Some of the video montages I made for Catsuka's picks last month :-] (see video above)
Osama Ranking anime series (WIT Studio)
Interforce : Seoul pilot episode (Yujin An)
First of all, an update after the fire which destroyed Catsuka's server in march, and my move on a temporary hosting provider : I managed to reinstall Catsuka (again) last week on a brand new server, and to set up again my *emergency plan* (consisting in cloning Catsuka in 2 different places) in order to face again such critical scenarios (even if I don't hope so !).
And here's a new best-of of some video montages I made for Catsuka's picks these last 2 months :-] (see video above / lin...
2021-03-31 21:21:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Last Wednesday (March 10), Catsuka burned down. A huge fire ravaged part of the data centers of the French hosting provider OVH in Strasbourg, including the building named SBG2, which was completely destroyed.
And Catsuka was hosted in the SBG2 building.
Fortunately, no one was injured, but the ...
2021-03-13 11:23:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Some of the video montages I made for Catsuka's picks this month :-]
(see video above / links to films below)
- ZutoMayo "Darken" MV (Hanabushi)
- Nishina "Friends of the Wild Things" MV (Sonnye Lim)
I wish you an Happy New Year !
I hope that 2021 will be better than 2020 for all people in the world.
Thank you again for supporting me on Patreon.
As you know, I don't offer many exclusive contents here, but your support means a lot to me, to keep running Catsuka alone on my freetime.
For people interested about the history of Catsuka, I updated the 2021-01-03 18:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear patrons,
Just to let you know that I added a new page on Catsuka Player, where you can find all the video headers I make since the huge update of Catsuka Player in May 2020 (only 6 video headers are usually displaying randomly on the homepage).
https://www.catsuka.com/player/headers/
It's a little update, but it means a lot to me, I make these video-edits with love, to incite people to di...