from Hayao Miyazaki's My Neighbor Totoro. My brother Carl sculpted Totoro from plasticine clay. I made the umbrella from construction paper and a piece of wire. Mama-nature provided the cute Blue Spruce seedlings.

Head-on view of the same figurine.

A third view.

from Hayao Miyazaki's Lapüta: The Castle in the Sky (another anime masterpiece from Studio Ghibli). The Blue LED for Sheeta's levi-stone pendent was provided by CREE Research Inc.

Another view of the same figurines.

Leiji Matsumoto's famous space-pirate. Another photo of this figurine was featured on page 197 of the December 1990 issue of Animage magazine, in the "Over Seas My Animage" section of that issue.