Behind the scenes of how 1988's animated Akira was illustrated

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If you enjoyed the 1 minute snippet on Instagram, then you will enjoy the 4 minute version on YouTube:

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I very much did (both of them).

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Winsor McCay would have been proud to have seen this, for detail and process.

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the tip of a colored pencil

That is a paintbrush.

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And if you liked the 4 minute version, here’s the entire hour long documentary, “Akira Production Report” that this is from

This is the English dubbed version. (Here’s a slightly better resolution copy with French subtitles and one with Spanish subtitles)

I recommend the original Japanese with English subtitles instead

And if you’re interested in an animators amazing analysis of Akira, check out Eric Skala’s amazing video essay Akira - Animation The Hard Way. Sadly this awesome video essay is now only available on archive.org because Eric deleted all his videos.

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