AKIRA Animation Layouts & Key Frames -- OTOMO Complete Works 23 

The yellow pages are typically the supervisor’s drawovers. You come back from lunch and your shot folders from your OUT box is back in your IN box with yellow sheets. You’d just go thru and see how it was fixed so you could learn- in the case where just an arm or face was fixed you make a new layout incorporating the fixes. The finished complete yellow pages are “approved”, they go on to animation. So cool Otomo was so deep in the trenches with the crew. all those iconic shots like: The clown getting the pipe to the neck, the bike skid, the climb up the bike fender face kick, tetseo punching the shit out of the clown. The toys forming the giant milk bleeding bear Etc. it seems to me Otomo animated those shots mostly himself. In iron giant Brad Bird animated the shot of jittery Hogarth after he drinks the espresso, talking about skipping a grade, talking a mile a minute. You can dip in a do a solo as the maestro, but you also have to conduct the orchestra.

I got this before the Kayfabe Effect. Probably the coolest book I have ever owned

My copy just arrived in the post today, wow wow wow! Thanks so much for making this video and putting me on to this very special book.

Just copped all 3 of his akira books on your recommendations. Really jazzed to deep dive into the Otomo process. Also really glad about the Street Angel reprint can't wait to have more Jim Rugg goodness on the shelf and reading list.

The carry on bag! Haha! Thank you guys, just been killing it with Otomo lately. 🙏

Ok I’m definitely in,guys! I was on the ground floor in the mid 80’s when Manga comics became very prominent and was blown away by the quality of the art/narrative which I know interested and influenced American comics/animation and it really came at a great time! At the same time I jumped into Moebius at Marvel/Epic,2000 AD and Geoff Darrow Hard boiled! I love ❤️ the creative process etc and that’s exactly why I subscribed to Kayfabe! Look forward to seeing more reviews of Manga/Anime! Keep reading and making comix 👍🎯😎⚡️❤️💎! Damn straight!🔥

I am convinced these guys were straight up possessed. How can mortals just draw like this and make it look effortless?

I have volume 21 and 22, the Akira story boards. I rewatched the movie while going through the story boards and I love it.

Yes Oromo has all the pages of the sliding shot. As seen in the Akira Archive book cut 0170 including the little green lighting drawings

A masterpiece of animation.

Hitoshi Ueda probably has the genga of screech scene. He was the one who drew the scene.

As soon as I heard this book was being published I started anticipating this video. A must buy.

Thanks, guys, for another informative look at a great comic/anime artist!

Incredible stuff, thanks for diving into this!

Incredible walkthrough of this incredible book - thanks for this (and for the shout out!)

What blows my damned fool mind was that, yes, Otomo after a while DID relegate most of Akira the manga to his assistants... But he was still drawing the characters for the comic AS he was directing a feature film. WHEN DID HE SLEEP? Also, if you want to see the illustrator who inspired Otomos PARTICULAR style with faces, check out Yoshitaro Isaka who Otomo mentioned was an influence and you can kind of see where Otomo got the faces of his characters from.

So so glad I picked this one up

Akira is one of the greatest movies ever made

Great analysis guys! Great to hear details about the art & line work that I'd otherwise not know. Cheers!

Interesting to note that Otomo was courted by Jeffrey Katzenberg to make an animated adaptation of Jimmy Palmiotti’s ASH around 2000. DreamWorks animation apparently at one point did believe that animation is a medium and not a genre

I'm a Artist Myself,and growing up on ANIME and MANGA it would take me Hours to figure out how Much Detail they would put in there Creations!!!.If I ever Pick up this BOOK,it would Take me at Least 1 MONTH to get through it,because of how Fantastic it Looks!!!

That's mind-blowing.

Is Otomo’s new feature currently in production? He is just one of the most incredible visual stylists in the world

Also any chance you guys are going to do a dive into the Alex Toth Book Genius Animated?

Just secured my copy of this! It's becoming rare fast!

Thanks for making this video.

I can’t believe this wouldn’t get the full translated treatment glad we got to experience it

Thank you for the video. Very informative!

13:36 one of the hardest things ever to do (at least for me): drawing a manga character you’ve made from the ground up at that angle and staying on model lol

Amazing ...

Would love to have something like this. I’m mainly inspired by manga but it’s hard to find anything that’s artisan/artist edition style or a raw art scanned stuff like Jaime’s wrestling book that isn’t in a Western style. As much as I love my American stuff, Otomo has the perfect blend of cartoony and realism that I’d like to achieve and I’d love to see his raw lines up close for myself.

Ordered mine im all in for anything OTOMO

Awwwss yeasss here we go!!!

Gaaaaahhhhh I want this. Need an English release.

Need this 😢

Precioso

Amazing book really wanna get it, have u guys seen yoshikazu yasuhikos mangas they have that same quality of a quick drawing but everything is their

I’m so jealous.

🔥🔥🔥🔥☄🤯

The laserdiscs are like 100-150 a piece 😭