#Toshiharu Mizutani

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Background from the Akira movie by Toshiharu Mizutani.

#Akira #movie #background #Katsuhiro Otomo #illustration #animation #Toshiharu Mizutani

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link

#AKIRA #cut no. 84 #poster #Toshiharu Mizutani #Akira #lithograph #art #design #anime #80s #1980s #80s Anime

[geekynerfherder]

Riekeles Gallery presents 'Akira: The Architecture of Neo Tokyo', an art exhibition featuring the original background artwork of the animated science-fiction classic, including 59 original production backgrounds, layout drawings, concept designs and image boards.

The opening reception is Friday June 3 at 7pm CET (European Time) at the Tchoban Foundation. Museum for Architectural Drawing, at Christinenstraße 18a, 10119 Berlin, Germany, and is on display until September 4 2022.

Selected artwork from the exhibition are also available as high-end solegraph prints, in signed (by the artists) and numbered limited editions of 25 each, and as limited edition prints of 500 each, through the Riekeles Gallery store.

#Art #Akira #Riekeles Gallery #Tchoban Foundation #Hiroshi Ohno #Toshiharu Mizutani #Anime #Concept Art #Exhibition #Art Show #Gallery Show #Neo Tokyo #Otomo Katsuhiro

[tygerland]

Toshiharu Mizutani Background art for AKIRA (1988).

#akira #film #retro #art #1980s #city life #sci fi #cinema #anime #future #80s #animation #lights #cyberpunk #architecture #street #painting #alternative #aesthetic #neon #toshiharu mizutani #🎨 #⤵️ see notes for more details

[rikeijo]

Today's translation #533

Otomedia + Spring 2017, Toshiharu Mizutani (Art Director) interview

Part 5.

-- This time, we did a special feature about Yurio. If you could tell Yurio something, what would that be?

M: Yuuri and Victor aren't bothered by that, but Yurio kicks people a lot, doesn't he? I think that such hot-headed characters like him are very charming, too. I think I'd like to tell him "You should behave more like an adult", but if he did then he would calm down and his skating wouldn't be as interesting. I think he should perhaps stay the way he is.

-- What has Yuri!!! on ICE become to you?

M: [Working on a] TV series is always hectic. There is a lot of good things, but there is also a lot of hardships. But after the series ends it all becomes a good memory. It's a series that made a strong impact, that took a lot of preparations to make it as genuine as possible, that were invisible to the audience. I'm very happy I could take a part in this project.

[Notes:

The title of the feature that is mentioned here is "The Ice Tiger won't sleep until he gets to the top of the world - A magnificent and beautiful path of the Russian Fairy Ice Tiger"

For comparison, Yuuri also later had a small article only about him - in Pash! 2017/09 - and the title is something like "Katsukis from Kyushu - The man called Katsuki Yuuri (九州に勝生あり　勝生勇利という男)". They also explicitly use the phrase "virile son of Kyushu" to describe Yuuri in the article, which isn't the most popular phrase to describe him among a certain group of Yuuri's fans (although it is canon - that's what his profile says in the DVD booklet)... Because this phrase is used to describe "masculine men" believing in, lets say, "traditional values" when it comes to gender roles etc. (and we do see a bit of that in the show - eg. Yuuri doesn't help in the onsen and sleeps in while his family works, and in general receives a lot of special treatment compared to Mari - that's how even today in rl a lot of sons are treated in the more conservatives areas, because 男尊女卑 boys >> girls).

Just one small example of how the marketing around the characters was directed.]

#yuri on ice #yoi translations #yuri on ice translation

[traveling-paradise]

Katsuhiro Otomo’s 1988 sci-fi classic Akira has had an unparalleled influence on anime and film, and an exhibition at the Tchoban Foundation in Berlin showcases the original drawings that brought its futuristic cyberpunk setting to life. Akira – The Architecture of Neo Tokyo features 59 production backdrops, layouts, concepts, and image boards, many of which have never been shown publicly. The collection includes now-iconic works by art director Toshiharu Mizutani and collaborators Katsufumi Hariu, Norihiro Hiraki, Shinji Kimura, Satoshi Kuroda, Hiromasa Ogura, Hiroshi Ōno, Hajime Soga, Tsutomu Uchida, and Takashi Watabe.

Otomo first released the dystopian story as a manga series in 1982 before turning it into the highly influential action film a few years later. The narrative follows characters Shōtarō Kaneda, the telekinetic Tetsuo Shim, and their friends, who navigate the imagined Japanese metropolis of Neo Tokyo with its neon streetlights, crumbling infrastructure, and unrelenting post-apocalyptic vibe.

#katsuhiro otomo #sci-fi #80s art #80s sci fi #futuristic #cyberpunk #dystopian

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Background art for Akira. Artist: Toshiharu Mizutani

#katsuhiro otomo #art #movies #2d animation #akira manga #neotokyo #akira

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Toshiharu Mizutani

#akira

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AKIRA Cut no. 700, Toshiharu Mizutani, Poster colour on paper, 26 x 37 cm Cut no. 214, Toshiharu Mizutani, Poster colour on paper, 25,5 x 37 cm Cut no. 2211, Hiroshi Ohno, Poster colour on paper, 50 x 36 cm

#painting #tchoban foundation #berlin

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Banana Fish

(1st ep)

#banana fish #anime #anime 2018 #バナナフィッシュ #anime landscape #landscape #art #ash #eiji #ash x eiji #asheiji #okumura eiji #ash lynx #shorter #wong shorter #max lobo #dino golzine #toshiharu Mizutani #yut lung #Sing Soo-Ling #blanca #anime scenary #2018 anime #artwork #new york

[artbookisland]

Background from the Akira movie by Toshiharu Mizutani.

#Toshiharu Mizutani #Akira #background #scan #artbook

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link

#Toshiharu Mizutani #AKIRA production background #AKIRA #anime #color #art #design #production art #アキラ #80s #1980s #80s Anime #Cyberpunk #dystopian #Katsuhiro Otomo #riekeles.com

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Yu Yu Hakusho: Poltergeist Report released on April 9, 1994.

Studio(s): Studio Pierrot and Movic

Director: Masakatsu Iijima

Producers: Haruo Sai, Ken Hagino, and Naoji Hōnokidani

Score: Yusuke Honma

I'll also list all of the artists involved in making the background art and the key animators! This movie looks incredible and directors tend to get a much bigger cut of the credit than they deserve.

Background Art: Emi Kitahara, Emiko Koizumi, Hideaki Kudo, Hirofumi Shiraishi, Hisae Saito, Hitoshi Nagasaki, Ikuko Ōoka, Kaoru Inoda, Kazuo Ebisawa, Kumiko Nagashima, Masumi Nishikawa, Mio Isshiki, Ryō Kōno, Sadayuki Arai, Sawako Takagi, Shigenori Takada, Shinichi Uehara, Shinobu Takahashi, Shuichi Hirose, Toshiharu Mizutani, Toshiyuki Yoshimura, Yasunari Usuda, Youngil Park, Yuka Kawashima, Yuka Okamoto, Yūko Kobayashi

Key Animation: Akihide Saitō, Chihiro Hayashi, Fuminori Kizaki, Hajime Kamegaki, Hideyuki Motohashi, Hikaru Takanashi, Hiroharu Nishida, Hiromi Niioka, Hirotaka Kinoshita, Hiroyuki Kanbe, Hiroyuki Okuno, Hisahito Natsume, Isao Sugimoto, Junichi Kigawa, Junko Abe, Kari Higuchi , Katsuichi Nakayama, Kazumi Minahiro, Kazuya Kuroda, Kazuyuki Ikai, Kazuyuki Kobayashi, Keiko Shimizu, Kenji Yamazaki, Kunihiko Ito, Mamoru Hosoda, Mamoru Kurosawa, Masahito Yamashita, Masaki Hosoyama, Masayuki Fujita, Mayumi Hirota, Munenori Nawa, Naoyuki Owada, Osamu Nabeshima, Satoru Iriyoshi, Satoshi Fukushima, Shinji Seya, Shinsaku Kōzuma, Shuji Kawakami, Shunji Suzuki, Susumu Yamaguchi, Tadakatsu Yoshida, Tadashi Abiru, Takashi Yamazaki, Takayuki Gorai, Takenori Mihara, Takuya Satō, Toyoaki Shiomi, Yasunari Nitta, Yoshiaki Tsubata, Yoshinori Kanada, Yoshiyuki Kishi, Yuichi Endo, Yuko Kusumoto

#yyh #yusuke urameshi #hiei #kurama #kazuma kuwabara #poltergeist report #yyh 💾☆archive.

[rikeijo]

Today's translation #526

Yuri!!! on Life official guidebook, Toshiharu Mizutani (Art Director) interview

Part 2.

-- Was the design of "Yu~topia Katsuki" that we see in the first part of the story one of those early prepared settings?

M: Yes. Designs of this type were almost all already there, when I joined the team. When I first saw [the setting materials], I thought "Whao, so many small things! Is it really okay?" I draw line arts mostly by hand, but other staff members use computers for everything. Seiki-san uses mechanical pencil and there were a lot of very minute instructions attached to his designs. Well, I could draw that, but people who use computers don't even have pencils on them. They draw everything, even line arts, using computers. At first, I was worried that the art style would be too different. But with so many things to draw, it was impossible to draw everything by hand anyways, not without a person on the team that would only do that, so we decided to use computers, but try to make the art style look as close to hand-drawings as possible. And it was generally agreed, that it would be okay. There was no other way to do that.

-- To make the nuance that something was originally draw by hand still visible in the art style, right?

M: Yeah, it was difficult. I've been drawing a lot of Disney for a long time, so I draw line arts very precisely. But Tamura-san doesn't, or should I say - he draws very "loose" lines, so for me it was even more difficult, to copy that. When I felt the need to, unconsciously, I drew more precise lines, and in case of the first PV, I was told by the Director to better copy the art style of Tamura-san and draw fewer, more rough lines. After you get used to it, you know you should just not draw too much, but we unconsciously did, and then you look at your work, like "um, seems kind of like too many lines...". But in the beginning, we really did our best to copy Tamura-san's art style. Because, it would be impossible to do that after the had production started. I think we managed to learn to copy him to an acceptable level, and nobody felt that something's off in the art style.

#yuri on ice #yoi translations #yuri on ice translation

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#akira #tetsuo #katsuhiro Ôtomo #nozomu sasaki #shôji yamashiro #katsuji misawa #toshiharu mizutani

[recentanimenews]

Check Out 2nd Production Preview for Sunao Katabuchi’s New Film

    CONTRAIL, an animation production company based in Tokyo, has released the second production preview video for director Sunao Katabuchi's (Black Lagoon, In This Corner of the World) yet-titled latest anime film. The clip shows the film's black-and-white storyboards and scenes from its production site.

  The film will be produced by Katabuchi's animation production company, CONTRAIL, with Chie Uratani (Hijikata Toshizo: Shiro no Kiseki) as assistant director, Masashi Ando (The Deer King) as animation director, and Toshiharu Mizutani (AKIRA) as art director. The character designer will be announced at a later date. Contrail is now hiring for experienced in-between animators, and this video is posted in conjunction with the recruitment call.

  Katabushi says, "The path taken by Sei Shonagon and others is not a bright one, and the world around them is steep and harsh. What lies beyond these images? We would like to create it from now on." Sei Shonagon (966-1025) was a Japanese author and poet during the middle Heian period, the author of Makura no Soushi (The Pillow Book), one of the representative works of Heian literature.

    2nd production preview:

    【片渕須直監督最新作 紹介映像第二弾】 絵コンテや制作現場の様子を映した紹介映像第二弾を公開！https://t.co/oJYTtfHRkx 枕草子の筆者・清少納言たちが歩む道は決して明るくなく、取り巻く世界も険しく、厳しい。この映像の先に何があるのか、これから作り出していきたいと思います。#片渕監督新作 pic.twitter.com/r50sWhIJpG

— コントレール CONTRAIL アニメーションスタジオ (@CONTRAIL_info) March 29, 2022

                  1st production preview:

    Sources: CONTRAIL press release

  © Contrail,Inc. All Rights Reserved.

  By: Mikikazu Komatsu

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