Tag: Tekkonkinkreet

September 29, 2023 · 0 comments

By Jasper Sharp. Directed by the LA-born Michael Arias, and adapted from Taiyo Matsumoto’s cult manga of the same name, Tekkonkinkreet depicts the adventures of two young street urchins named Kuro and Shiro (“Black” and “White”) as they run riot around the aptly-named Takara-Machi (Treasure Town), leading a feral existence far removed from the other […]

October 24, 2016 · 0 comments

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 […]

May 21, 2016 · 0 comments

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 […]

April 27, 2016 · 0 comments

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 […]