AKIRA
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- OBBTKN15
- sickGuyFawkes
- !inteliboy
- Ah so good. The neon sign is such an inspiring image.PhanLo
- Love that detaildocpoz
- whooaasted
- Uh wow +1prophetone
- incredible! wow!Krassy
- are these giant prints, or actual mural work? either way, amazing!Krassy
- Just big stickers by the looks of it Krassy. Atom's linework is the best.PhanLo
- very noicemort_
- It looks like it's just on a construction site outside wall, like a wild posting, and isn't a permanent installation?zarkonite
- Right, it's alongside the construction site of Parco, a series of malls in Shibuya, part of which is being renovated. The Akira campaign is official andspl33nidoru
- announces Parco's reopening in 2019spl33nidoru
- https://www.youtube.…spl33nidoru
- Cool! thanks for sharing.zarkonite
- Yep, for parco and Olympics coming up. Super dope!antimotion
- ^ I forgot to mention that Akira is set in 2019, hence the collab, but I had completely forgotten about the olympics context in the story! thanks manspl33nidoru
- PhanLo15
'Social distancing has me sketching my deepest desires— A live action Akira, with every character played by Danny DeVito~ ??'
https://www.instagram.com/quinti…- Nice!!OBBTKN
- Love it... my favorite Sunny character.Ramanisky2
- +❤+helloeatbreathedrive
- Let's see one of Louie DiPalma and his character from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest!CyBrainX
- we do requests? oh boy oh boyhelloeatbreathedrive
- hans_glib10
- sooo coolmugwart
- Acefadein11
- Can you imagine painting every frame by hand? Incredible the work that went into this movie.monNom
- So very +1prophetone
- awedocpoz
- Ridiculously goodset
- there must be a sweatshop full of hundreds of autistic artists to pull this off. This is insane._niko
- and i'm not saying this in a bad way, the focus, skill, patience and dedication needed to pull this off is mind-blowing._niko
- yours?ArchitectofFate
- I like this minimal style more than the manga myselfdocpoz
- want of the dayApeRobot
- i_monk14
- autoflavour8
actually just rewatched Akira last night.. a friend of mine hired a cinema and had a private screening of it and had created a dj mix (wasnt live) to replace the audio.. with subtitles you still got the dialogue but set to burial, square pusher and an assortment of other things..
was actually pretty dope, especially as he had timed it all so drops in songs and big changes matched perfectly..
he had little snack bags and everything..
baller birthday if ever I have been to one.- sweet. sounds like a mad friend with good taste.inteliboy
- its a great film to rewatch. so lushhardhat
- Cool. I remember watching Fantastic Planet to a DnB soundtrack which was quite the experienceIanbolton
- Sounds awesome. Would love to see it on a big screen.Longcopylover
- fucking nice.garbage
- wow, i didn't know you could rent a theater screenscarabin
- That sounds fun!stoplying
- Hell yeahGuyFawkes
- yeah it super nice.. had an edible and just melted. and yep, you can rent smaller cinemas apparently pretty easily. maybe not the big chain cinemasautoflavour
- PhanLo7
To celebrate Akira's 30th birthday, Layer Lemonade brought together 13 animators to produce AKIRA OVERDRIVE, a collaborative project where each artist produced 5 seconds of animation with complete artistic freedom.
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Was originally just going to post this below, but found the full animation above.
5 Second Akira homage from Fabian Broki
https://broki.tv/AKIRA-HOMAGE-20…
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There's some good animation in there.- Layer Lemonade Instagram https://www.instagra…PhanLo
- I likeGM278
- nicefadein11
- +imbecile
- Fuck. I read the comic when it came out and saw the movie in theaters when it came out. 30 Fn years!ArmandoEstrada
- Me too ArmandoOBBTKN
- some of them don't look great... just saying.shapesalad
- ^ agreedMaaku
- It's pretty hard to top the original.PhanLo
- what's with the dull music? feels nothing like Akira.inteliboy
- thats a no for me, hosscannonball1978
- sted5
- http://awakenakira.c…sted
- Saw this earlier, it's the same dude who did the GitS shelling scene thing a while back. That was cool, this is nice but totally redundant.face_melter
- A+ amazing, but yeah just an exercise in style. if a live action (please no) is ever made, hopefully it's by a team who are all about character - not vfx.inteliboy
- It would be really hard to get the characters right. Really enjoyed this though. Crazy he does so much of it in Cinema 4D.PhanLo
- superbfadein11
- fuckin love passion projects, ash is king and the collective podcast is still amazeballsArchitectofFate
- Great skills but emotionless ... then again I fucking love Akira!mugwart
- What's with the pills? And where is Akira?M01XXX
- ^ you not read the original? This is more of the comic than the animationmugwart
- the pause button just hovers in the middle the whole time lolset
- ^ I noticed that too, but if you click off, on the white, it disappears.face_melter
- Akira is in all of ussee_thru
- @set: unfortunately that's a setting in vimeo :(sted
- move off the video, it goes. well it does here anyway (in chrome)fadein11
- Sted's link has a huge making of video (multiple videos actually). Interesting stuff!
http://awakenakira.c…monNom - yep.lol monNom:) I came here to post the site only, but I thought that because the goatsee links in the past nobody wants to open a link without some visual:)sted
- GM27810
It's awe inspiring to think of the time and number of people it took to paint every cell and detail crammed into Akira and the legacy Otomo's work. Akira was a massive inspiration on my animation career from the very first time I saw it (as I'm sure countless artists). As a kid I bought every book and figure (some of which still sit on the shelves in my studio) and I can't even tell you how many times I've paused and replayed scenes to study some tiny detail or bit of animation.
- superb.fadein11
- fuck yes - I have the Kanda and Tetsu.
Akria also had such an impact on my career and life.mugwart - I have a few on my desk at work ... not allowed to photo due to NDAs.mugwart
- Nice collection! Yeah massively influential for so many folk I know too.PhanLo
- TETSUO! KANEDA!trooperbill
- Totally agree. Plus the soundtrack is stunning.Eighty
- ^ fuck yes.mugwart
- PhanLo8
- +1prophetone
- unrealdigitdaily
- wow._niko
- one frame at a timeprophetone
- sweetmilfhunter
- The UI of those tools is vastly superior to Photoshop or Illustratorshapesalad
- master piece. There's one of these on the colour creation. I believe there was a warehouse just on the red jacket, as they could only create it in 1batchmugwart
- I feel a weird sense of awe and fear in my chest watching that. Just the scale of it - argh!GM278
- hans_glib8
saw a trailer for the 4k restoration yesterday on the big screen... you can really see the handpainted-ness of the images.
can't wait to go see the whole thing again.
- It's playing at the cinema here this week too, I may go see it thursday. :-)PhanLo
- ffs picturehouses just announced they are closing :(hans_glib
- Here --> https://www.amazon.c…dibec
- @dibec that version is just an upscale.
don't buy it.sted - regals closing too :(helloeatbreathedrive
- Nairn4
haha., funny this is bumped today as I did a very small job earlier for an old client called Tetsuo, so EVERY time I see his name a part of my brain goes "TETSUOOOOO!"
- Hehe ❤PhanLo
- hahaha - i do the same with a mate of mine and he always replies "JASONNNNNNNNNN"necromation
- LOLOBBTKN
- https://www.youtube.…Longcopylover
- KANEDAAAAAjagara
- Akagiyama5
https://birthmoviesdeath.com/201…
Painstakingly animated by hand, the care that went into Akira can be seen in every frame, each bursting with an unfathomable range of colour. There’s 327 shades in the film, 50 of which were invented for it.
That's crazy. How do you 'invent a color', let alone 50?? (Apologies if this has been discussed in this thread already)
- +1
great video here on the attention to detail (think it was shared on this thread)
https://www.youtube.…fadein11 - i suppose you make a new mix of pigments that isn‘t available to buy already in a tube.uan
- no new colours were inventedfadein11
- I think about this post now and again.palimpsest
- +1
- PhanLo4
- Hell yeahGuyFawkes
- i have the original cell of thistrooperbill
- ^Lucky! I really wish I got an Akira cel years back.PhanLo
- OBBTKN4
Lads and gents:
Anime Expo: Akira Creator Teases New Movie Announcement
- http://oi67.tinypic.…OBBTKN
- wow!inteliboy
- but the original is perfect. so who knows....inteliboy
- https://comicbook.co…PhanLo
- prophetone2
- sup with that iPod?dopepope
- patented iphone camera pano folding effectprophetone
- just showin off my akira swagsprophetone
- & Qube swagz!!moldero
- ahh yissprophetone
- that mf doom figurine is dopeEightyDeuce
- ALL CAPSprophetone
- never seen that edition, cool. but hey, tell me that kr ink isn't just decorationgilgamush
- sadly it sits there like a princess... but apparently it was super limited and i had to convince the guy at ALIFE to sell it to me, a treasureprophetone
- that was 5 years agoprophetone
- Gotcha, good shit, make sure to give it a shake every once in a whilegilgamush
- I am gonna shake that sh*t tonite!prophetone
- Aaaw yeaaagilgamush