{"id":5553,"date":"2023-09-29T01:05:28","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T00:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.alltheanime.com\/?p=29992"},"modified":"2023-09-29T01:05:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T00:05:28","slug":"tekkonkinkreet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/29\/tekkonkinkreet\/","title":{"rendered":"Tekkonkinkreet"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Jasper Sharp.<\/p>\n

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Directed by the LA-born Michael Arias, and adapted from Taiyo Matsumoto\u2019s cult manga of the same name, Tekkonkinkreet<\/em> depicts the adventures of two young street urchins named Kuro and Shiro (\u201cBlack\u201d and \u201cWhite\u201d) as they run riot around the aptly-named Takara-Machi (Treasure Town), leading a feral existence far removed from the other neighbourhood kids, an existence that comes under threat with the arrival of a yakuza boss and his mob with plans to clean up the area for redevelopment.<\/p>\n

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Given Arias\u2019 background as the creator of the Toon Shaders renderers<\/a> first used by Ghibli in Princess Mononoke<\/em>, it comes as no real surprise that computers should have featured so heavily in the production of Tekkonkinkreet<\/em>. Indeed, the project was originally conceived as a fully computer-animated feature, with Arias assembling a small team of digital and traditional artists and bringing in Koji Morimoto to direct.<\/p>\n

Arias\u2019 employment on The<\/em> Animatrix<\/em> resulted in his permanent relocation to Tokyo from America, where he\u2019d been developing computer graphics software at Softimage. It also saw Tekkonkinkreet <\/em>put on the backburner while The Matrix<\/em> spin-off occupied him for over three years. When the idea was revived and Arias decided to make it his directing debut, he decided to concentrate on the creative rather than technical side of the production.<\/p>\n

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As he explained at the time of Tekkonkinkreet<\/em>\u2019s release, \u201cThere are a few reasons I went traditional for this film. First, I wanted to concentrate on directing, not CG animation or software. Second, I found a group of artists who I believe are the most talented character animators on the planet and wanted them to work with tools most familiar to them (pencil\/paper). Third, I really think hand-drawn character artwork is more expressive than 3D animation. As cool a project as it was, I was never entirely happy with the look of the characters in the pilot. It was torture to get a lot of those shots done. The tools aren\u2019t quite there yet and we (in Japan) don\u2019t have the 3D talent pool or the budget to make a film like this using purely digital means.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the end, while CG was used in about 40% of the scenes, Tekkonkinkreet<\/em> is predominantly hand-drawn, although hardly in a manner that can be described as \u201ctraditional\u201d. The animators rejected the wide-eyed, round-headed, baby-like designs of traditional anime characters, instead choosing large-bodied, pin-headed gangsters with Frankenstein scars and pinprick eyes, their bodies drawn in jagged outline, teetering around on feet as dainty as pig trotters.<\/p>\n

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Reversing the post-Blade Runner<\/em> trend of bathing the city in neon and gloom, Studio 4\u00b0C\u2019s animators drew their inspiration from right outside their door in Kichijoji. Takara-Machi is depicted as a bustling early Showa-era theme park of wooden houses, garish shop and advertising hoardings, and warrens of winding streets and covered markets. \u201cOne concept I had early on was that the film should feel like a first-person account\u201d, Arias told me back in 2006, \u201ca documentary, if you will, about the lives of characters inhabiting Treasure Town.\u201d<\/p>\n

Naturally, Arias\u2019 own Toon Shaders play a large role in this depiction of streets teeming with life and a constant stream of traffic. \u201cOur backgrounds involve a ton of 3D elements, though we took great pains to keep all of them hidden among the traditional artwork\u2026 All of the film\u2019s vehicles (cars, buses, trains, trolleys, tuk-tuks, bicycles, etc.) were 3D, as well as a great many background characters. The whole thing takes place in a big city so there\u2019s some very complex street scenes with hundreds of vehicles zooming around. There are also a couple of dream sequences with digitally animated schools of fish and flocks of birds. The look of all of this is still \u2018cel-animated\u2019, though we tortured our character artwork using a variety of 2D effects to add paint splotches, soft shadows, and so on.\u201d<\/p>\n

As well as Toon Shading, Tekkonkinkreet<\/em> makes great use of texture mapping to add hand-drawn details to the backgrounds, a standard technique for creating scenes that retain the traditional pen-and-ink look while allowing for motion in depth, although never before had this background art been so intricately rendered. \u201cThe combination of very densely textured pseudo-3D backgrounds and animation supervisor Shojiro Nishimi\u2019s characters, and the amount of detail in every shot doesn\u2019t have much precedent,\u201d Arias stated.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe spent quite a while refining our \u2018grammar\u2019 of handheld camera moves, out-of-focus and shallow-focus camera work. We also did camera-based projection maps of painted background artwork onto 3D geometry to allow for a greater degree of freedom in designing camera moves.\u201d The vertiginous opening sequence, in which the virtual camera pursues a crow soaring high over the garish cityscape, took three months to realise.<\/p>\n

Since Tekkonkinkreet<\/em>\u2019s release in 2006, Arias has directed two further feature projects: the live-action drama Heaven\u2019s Door<\/em> (2009) and the anime Harmony<\/em> (2015), based on the sci-fi novel by Project Itoh and made again in collaboration Studio 4\u00b0C. There have also been a number of shorts, music videos and commercials, not to mention a host of unrealized projects and consultancy VFX and design work on other filmmakers\u2019 productions. He has translated several of Taiyo Matsumoto\u2019s manga into English.<\/p>\n

The film was well-received overseas, although the project\u2019s fruition left Arias feeling emotionally drained, not least because the last few years of the production coincided with the breakup of his marriage. \u201cTo be honest, I remember so little about the first days of the release. Finishing the film and then getting it out there was such a cathartic experience \u2014 the only thing I can compare it to is what I imagine giving birth is like. Apologies to anyone who\u2019s actually given birth, but it really did feel like I\u2019d been getting this egg ready to hatch for ten years!\u201d<\/p>\n

“One thing I didn\u2019t expect after the release was feeling so alone and bereft. Maybe that\u2019s what post-partum depression feels like! Tekkonkinkreet<\/em> had been my life, to the exclusion of all else, for some incredibly intense and creative years, and then, just like that… gone!”<\/p>\n

Nowadays he claims his \u201cpersonal feelings towards Tekkonkinkreet<\/em> are mixed\u201d and revisiting it is \u201cso bittersweet, so evocative of those difficult days\u201d during which he virtually lived in the studio. He only really saw his two young sons (then aged four and six) when they visited him at the weekends, but they left their fingerprints all over the production, in \u201call of White\u2019s drawings, and even some voices.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for its legacy? \u201cI think Tekkonkinkreet<\/em> has held up quite well. I was a newbie to directing, so there\u2019s plenty I\u2019d love to go back and try differently. But I was working with so many talented artists with such rich source material, that somehow, amazingly, it works. On a purely technical level, I think it\u2019s quite successful \u2014 as a hybrid of traditional and digital animation, I still believe it\u2019s unsurpassed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jasper Sharp is the author of The Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema<\/a><\/em>. Tekkonkinkreet<\/em> is screening as part of Scotland Loves Anime this November.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

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