What does the chinese say?

It's actually WP Japanese text on the scroll which is a font in photoshop, only used it to give a graphic feeling to the image representing asian characters. The little pink symbol are chinese characters. So it's a mix of japanese and chinese, the japanese characters spell out "Water Hog" and the chinese character means "Year of the Pig" because 2007 is the year of the pig and the chinese new year was just recent.

I like this, reminds me of Spirited Away.

Who do you work for and could you give me few pointers as to areas that I need to develop?

Mike try Google's translator. I use it all the time doing concept work for Nintendo and it works great.