STEVE OLIFF: Coloring AKIRA with KATSUHIRO OTOMO

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in 1989, veteran colorist Steve Oliff was personally selected by Katsuhiro Otomo to color his seminal manga, AKIRA. This video documents their working relationship, including Otomo's trip to Point Arena, CA to collaborate with Steve on developing the color scheme. Steve hand-painted every page of AKIRA, using some combination of airbrush, gouache, water marker, colored pencil, Pantone film; these original color guides are now available exclusively from Felix Comic Art. Check them out at www.felixcomicart.com!
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@MicahBuzanANIMATION 8 лет назад

So inspiring. Akira is a visual masterpiece, both the comic and the film.

@draddadandawg3363 5 лет назад

@Yee Yee? Micah is an animator, check out his work! And always glad to see others as encapsulated by Akira

@voltgaming2213 3 года назад

Manga

@hahahahaha288 3 года назад

@@voltgaming2213 manga is literally just japanese comic

@kevinhaynes9091 2 года назад

Fascinating story. One could drive through the unassuming little town of Point Arena, population now 449, and have no idea that it played a significant part in the amazing anime classic Akira...

@alexflash5153 4 года назад

Just watched Akira and am reading the Manga, this is honestly amazing. Imagine if this guy colored Berserk (If it ever ends).

@malocostedoat626 2 года назад

🙁

@alexflash5153 2 года назад

Damn…

@STUDIOSTEPS_motion Год назад

So cool to hear this. Thanks for doing the interview !

@tetsuyatsurugi9250 3 года назад

Know what I love this version of Akira this particular version really feels like an anime series of 39 episodes ( the 38 chapters are really big and have content of a tv episode in it) thank you Steve

@FPdesignfab Год назад

Awesome. Love the story, design, drawings and colors. All exceptional.

@salskars6637 2 месяца назад

Bravo, Steve Oliff, BRAVO!

@snorkupine210 11 месяцев назад

I began a job that involved travel in 1990 which made it impossible to finish this collection, which breaks my heart. I hope that someday this will be released as a box set like the black and white set that is on it's way to my home. I'm glad this series is always relevant.

@aphidamas1 6 лет назад

Steve Oliff with Olyoptics did some of my favorite coloring in comics on Sam Keith's The Maxx. Thanks Steve for breathing such vivid life into Keith's weird world!

@DippedInInk Год назад

Happy u posted this on IG cuz I never knew this. Thanks

@TheJinestylez 6 лет назад

I never knew, I have one of the (Akira) colored books and I have known Steve for so long and never made the connection. literally saw him a month ago at the local store, great guy, humble and full of information. He also did a lot of work for Image comics back in the day with his team coloring the Maxx and Spawn. a real innovator in comic coloring, the grandfather of digital coloring for comics.

@chrisanyma8249 8 лет назад

the best comic and movie adaptation ever, thanks for your work!

@collt091 4 года назад

Totally agree

@luckykennedy7364 4 года назад

I really wish they would do a release the color version again I would buy it in seconds its beyond amazing

@nebzshady9389 2 года назад

Honestly, I'd just get the CBZ files.

@nikonikosensei6682 3 года назад

Omg those comics Otomo messed with himself. This gave me a better appreciation for the coloring process. When I initially bought a bunch , I preferred the black and white. I’m happy I saw this. Thank you for making the video.

@leftyfourguns 2 года назад

A reprint of this sure would be nice...

@jcb5212 4 года назад

I have the entire Epic Comic books collection of this wonderful work. What saddens me is that the color version is no longer in print. I would like to see a new edition. I think both the black and white versions and the flopped, colored version deserve their places on the shelf. I think the color version deserves to be de-flopped and printed in Japanese and English as well!

@PeterPalmiotti 8 лет назад

STEVE OLIFF was the first master computer colorist in comics!

@joeyrobin1 8 лет назад

This version of Akira made a huge impression on me. Great video, Steve's fun to watch.

@shaneriggs6678 8 лет назад

i love it in black & white and color both are amazing looking and gotta love the movie

@THETALKseries 3 года назад

Legend.

@GriftMediaInk 2 года назад

This is such a great video!

@fattestpony 8 лет назад

it gives me goosebumps still

@mathieuvart 2 года назад

Otomo is my main inspiration in art.

@nelsonmorales8253 4 года назад

This is so awesome. Now to collect all the volumes. lol

@ArchAngelManga 8 лет назад

Incredible! I'd love for a full colour reprint to happen so I could read it all over again!!

@MGSBigBoss77 8 лет назад

+ArchAngel “Halnon1990” Manga just said the same thing myself on another video, so agreed. I use to read the b&w 6 volume Akira editions from Viz in bookshops but felt, if i got'em they'd only colourize'em one day. Just like i have the 'First Graphic Novel' volumes of the colourized TMNT's comics. As they were originally printed in b&w also from Mirage comics. Yeah it'll be cool if Akira got the full reprint treatment in colour. Seems every other manga getting that treatment too? (See/check out Dragonball Z's manga?).

@ArchAngelManga 8 лет назад

MGSBigBoss77 Yeah there's a few manga that i've seen in all colour but not a lot. I've seen Chi's Sweet Home, DBZ and Unico but that's all I know of off the top of my head

@MGSBigBoss77 8 лет назад

ArchAngel Manga I'd also love it, if Afro Samurai's manga was also put into colour. I've got the two volumes that came out and have enjoyed them. And can do so as a purist of the original b&w releases as any fan ought to. But i wouldn't mind adding colour releases to my collection, if they were to be made and put out there as well however.

@4rnorthwest 5 лет назад

Holy shit THANK YOU! THANK you so much for posting this. I’ve been getting back into Akira which I grew up watching in the early 90’s. Though it blew my young mind then, NOW I can fully appreciate everything it took to make the graphic books and the picture show! Now with a 15 year young daughter I am blessed she’s taken to art as I once did, she incredible at it and wouldn’t you know it she LOVES manga! Both reading and more passionately drawing it. She is now finally old enough to share this pivotal master work with her. She’s in for a hell of a ride! Please post more and thank you again!

@voxinverse 6 лет назад

This is an amazing video. I've been so curious about Akira coming to America for the first time and Steve's place in that history, so thanks for making this. Super fascinating and really enlightening.

@calvinho1301 7 лет назад

so cool , I managed to buy the JP release of Steve Oliff's colour versions. Can't wait to receive them in the mail!!

@mattschley 6 лет назад

Great!!

@SHINBAXTER 6 лет назад

MAN, THAT'S A LOT OF PAGES TO COLOR XD =)

@KAROSHIcomics 8 лет назад

Very cool! Thanks for taking the time to document this!

@kamenliter 8 лет назад

Thank you for this! Great!

@ErgoBoom 7 лет назад

Steve this is great! Thank You!

@LairOfWonders 8 лет назад

so damn awesome!!!

@dotdotdotdot6560 4 года назад

Very nice

@ekalafabio Год назад

Lindo trabalho. Fiz questão de resgatar as antigas edições da editora Globo, única vez que esse material foi publicado em Cores aqui no Brasil. merecia ser resgatado numa nova edição (mas sem a inversão ocidentalizada dos quadros).

@JuanArroyo1984 8 лет назад

so cool!

@robertjacques6812 5 лет назад

Awesome video

@maroccomar2334 4 года назад

There was something mystik about that Black and white. Otomo told us so much with really no color haha genius

@MGSBigBoss77 8 лет назад

Thumbs up!

@DigofreitasHQ 8 лет назад

Really awesome!

@connorwaltman4966 7 лет назад

I hope that the Akira manga gets a new Anime Adaptation.

@chamaniq2.080 4 года назад

Culture Connor oh yes it will otomo decide to recreate the anime with comic editiom

@AlphaProto 3 года назад

It wouldn't be as good as the first film. It would either lack the budget and be made cheap, or full CG.

@nikonikosensei6682 3 года назад

I hope it doesn’t. It’s my favorite film of all time and I really hope it doesn’t. Expectations would likely not be met, but it would make a lot of money.

@maximusregalado9655 6 лет назад

that green shirt kid at 1:05 is shohei otomo right?

@animationcycles7109 2 года назад

I can't remember which one I came to see first. The movie, or the colored manga. Because it just hit me, that if the colored manga came out before the movie, was the movies colors, inspired by Steve's work? Or was the movie out, and Steve was the winner, at closest to mimic the movies color scale?

@ComicHorder410 7 лет назад

Im so glad I found your channel, your videos are amazing! I especially appreciate this one as I have been a huge fan of Akira since the 80s. Ive watched every bit of supplemental material I could find but I never see ones on the American Epic series which was how I discovered Akira. I subbed and again, thanks so much for sharing this with us!

@FelixComicArt 7 лет назад

If you like the videos, also check out our podcast: www.felixcomicart.libsyn.com. Thanks for the kind words!

@ComicHorder410 7 лет назад

Felix Comic Art I definitely will thanks!

@johnnyfreetanga5506 5 лет назад

MASTERPIECE

@kentallard8852 3 года назад

Manga are published weekly in anthologies that are literally the size of phone books, I think they opt for b&w to meet that schedule and economy

@flip1sba Год назад

Point Arena is a complete contrast from the futuristic urban scene of Neo Tokyo.

@lowinlofi1398 9 месяцев назад

I wish you could buy the whole manga colored

@claudiofrezza4862 4 года назад

Will we ever get to see the color versions released again in a modern deluxe trade or Hardback Omnibus format? If not,is it a legal issue? Do Marvel still own the rights to color version printing? Black & white versions I think are owned by Kodansha Comics I think? Anyone know the legal reprint status of potential reprinting of colorized Akira version?

@markcowin8867 3 года назад

Really wish a coloured reprint would happen.

@yujm7 7 лет назад

When I heard him say he was a colorist for 4 years, I wasn't very impressed. "Wait a sec, 40?"

@BarraLibre 4 года назад

This versión of Akira was the first i read so im biased, but i believe the color makes it superior to the original black and white especially Tetsuos biomechanical tone. Amazing art.

@HamsterAssasins 5 лет назад

An amazing job at coloring even better looking than the original b&w yet so many years now we still can't get buy the series in color they just published a few of those back in the day and now one colored volume costs a fortune IF you manage to find one from ebay etc. Such a wasted opportunity and talent

@francotorrejon6334 6 лет назад

aguante akira a color!!!!!!!!

@daviddave8761 8 лет назад

is the the Akira: The 35th Anniversary Box Set going to be in color?

@mentalfood88 7 лет назад

Yes.

@melbrothehumanbeing1745 6 лет назад

Nooo, unfortunately not.

@carlobernhardi6131 6 лет назад

This should help...Comicbooks (from 1988 to 1991\1995) monthly issues 1 to 38 (64 pages Flipped from the Japanese Right to Left) Publisher:Epic Comics (Marvel) USA. Computer Coloured by Steve Oliff (with permission from Kodansha Ltd. and support from Katsuhiro Otomo for the US market.) Trade Paperback Collection #1 ISBN-10: 0-87135-697-X - Pub. Date: 1990 Publisher: Epic Comics (Marvel); 1st edition (June 1, 1990) Collection #2 ISBN-10: 0-87135-782-8 - Pub. Date: 1991 Collection #3 ISBN-10: 0-87135-831-X - Pub. Date: 1991 Publisher: Epic Comics (Marvel); 1st edition (November 1, 1991) Collection #4 ISBN-10: 0-87135-832-8 - Pub. Date: 1992 Collection #5 ISBN-10: 0-87135-900-6 - Pub. Date: 1992 Collection #6 ISBN-10: 0-87135-901-4 - Pub. Date: 1992 Collection #7 ISBN-10: 0-87135-939-1 - Pub. Date: 1992 Collection #8 ISBN-10: 0-87135-940-5 - Pub. Date: 1992 Collection #9 ISBN-10: 0-87135-941-3 - Pub. Date: 1993 Collection #10 ISBN-10: 0-7851-0002-4 - Pub. Date: 1993

@Aorlando8 3 года назад

Akira must have been inspired, drunk from the Clockwork Orange, just like the Matrix was inspired by Akira. Young criminals (gangs of Neo Tokyo) because they do not accept to give up how simple they are, their authentic personalities, their authentic lifestyles just to be able to adjust to the current system (protocols, formalities and bureaucracies) that complicates the life of all people. Youth in need of God, sick souls. The Children of the Working Class, victims of corporocracy, without grace and with replicating mentalities. The agitated (stressed) smart cities are favored by the cool asphalt pirates. A Japanese-American Live-Action Cyberpunk with real, obviously Japanese actors following a retro 80s-90s Design-Style Cyberpunk evidenced in Akira, the Japanese animation masterpiece.