About 15 years ago I acquired a whole genuine envelope full of Studio production drawings from the film Akira released in 1988.
I bought them at the NEC memorabilia event for my old toy stall at toy fairs and my Ebay shop at the time.
They were quite beautiful things, each one initialed by the artist or studio and you could see the animation process clearly as each drawing was a tiny movement on from the last.
Over the years I've sold on these drawings to collectors and I have just one left for posterity.
This one.
At first it appears to be basically a green object inside white clouds.
Having had a handful of the other drawings in this sequence its actually a pipe coil emerging from a foaming sea.
Its most likely the scene in Akira where Tetsuo becomes a huge mechanical globe with pipe-like tentacles churning up the waters in Tokyo Bay.
In the scene Tetsuo battles the Espers and my last drawing is probably this particular scene I've taken as a screengrab.
You can see the entire scene in this short clip on You Tube and the above still is around 1 minute 52 seconds in.
Have you any Akira merchandise or collectables?
Have you seen the film? Do you think it was important?
I am not familiar with the film, but any original animation cel is a terrific collectible. There were tons for sale at movie conventions in New York City back in the 1970s and 1980s, and I always meant to pick one up but I never did.
ReplyDeleteThey are fun to buy but actually purchasing them is a difficult decision as they are an unusual collectable for sure Zigg.
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