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Behind the Arias
Andrew Osmond interviews the co-director of Harmony. Michael Arias should need little introduction to readers of this blog. He’s most famous as the American director of the epic anime film Tekkonkinkreet, whose production was the subject of an in-depth interview by Jasper Sharp. Arias is also the developer of the Toon Shaders software, as deployed […]
Harmony
By Hugh David. In the future, humanity has invested in public health as the key way to offer individual citizens their best life experience, reducing the sort of concerns that lead to unrest. This includes constant monitoring, alerts and reminders by way of embedded biotech and retinal displays, as well as offering whatever treatments are […]
TEKKONKINKREET TURNS TEN
By Jasper Sharp. At a time when digital releases from Pixar and DreamWorks had become the new monolithic style for American animation, the use of computers on such landmark titles from Japan as Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, Mind Game, Appleseed (2004) and Howl’s Moving Castle was still very much in service of an instantly […]
Toonz, Toon Shaders and Studio Ghibli
Jasper Sharp investigates the hype over “free” animation software. Last month, a press release went out under the heading ‘TOONZ goes Open Source!’ The revolutionary 2-D animation software, developed for the professional market by the Rome-based company Digital Video in 1993 and originally distributed by Softimage as Creative Toonz, has now been placed freely within […]