Proto Anime Cut – Spaces and Visions in Japanese animation
March 1st, 2012 — 12:42 am21 January – 06 March 2011
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (more…)
09 July – 09 October 2011
HMKV im Dortmunder U, Dortmund, Germany (more…)
5 July – 16 September 2012
La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain (upcoming)
The exhibition Proto Anime Cut presents original drawings of the most important directors and illustrators of Japanese animated films.
The action-packed hero stories and the visionary science fiction of Japanese Anime are set in impressive worlds that are constructed in painstaking detail. Looking at the creative processes, the filmmakers appear as architectural dreamers who operate with virtuosity at the borders of credibility, fiction and utopia. The exhibition focuses on the development of these arenas of action and narrative scenarios. Numerous background paintings, storyboards, drafts, sources of inspiration and film excerpts provide insight into the working methods of the most successful animation artists of the last two decades. Proto Anime Cut presents them for the first time in Europe.
The exhibition includes work by Hideaki Anno (director, Neon Genesis Evangelion), Haruhiko Higami (photographer), Koji Morimoto (director, Dimension Bomb), Hiromasa Ogura (art director), Mamoru Oshii (director, Patlabor, Ghost in the Shell) and Takashi Watabe (layout). The presented artists have played key roles in the development of Anime. By cooperating closely in different production studios in Tokyo they gave their distinctive signatures to many films and developed the prototypical Anime style.
A project by Les Jardins des Pilotes (Berlin) in cooperation with 2dk (Tokyo)
Curated by Stefan Riekeles and David d’Heilly
Co-produced by Obra Social CajaMadrid (Madrid)
Proto Anime Cut Archive – the book
Hardcover
20,5 x 26 cm
296 pages
234 color and b/w ills.
German/English and Spanish/English
ISBN 978-3-86828-253-5
2011
The publication Proto Anime Cut Archive presents original drawings of the most important directors and illustrators of Japanese animated films. Numerous background paintings, storyboards, drafts, sources of inspiration and film excerpts provide insight into the working methods of the most successful animation artists and production designers of the last two decades.
Proto Anime Cut – Berlin
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21 January – 06 March 2011
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Screening of a clip from Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (2009), Cut No. 467 – 575, Directors: Hideaki Anno (Chief), Masayuki and Kazuya Tsurumaki, Production: Studio Khara, 2009
Takashi Watabe
Layout for Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (2009), Cut 710
With kind permission of Studio Khara and Universum Film
Watabe designed the entire room first as a three-dimensional computer model to clearly define the camera perspective. He then printed out the wire frame in red and added further details and highlights in pencil. The drawing was then scanned again, the red lines replaced with black lines, and the layout as a whole processed as a digital image.
Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (2009)
Cut 710, still image
With kind permission of Studio Khara and Universum Film
Koji Morimoto
Image board for Dimension Bomb (2009)
With kind permission of Studio 4°C
Image boards define the colour palette and the lighting mood of the film. The designs come from an early stage of development and are not found in the final product.
Koji Morimoto
Cut 45 from EXTRA (1996), music video for Ken Ishii
Keyframe animation
With kind permission of Studio 4°C and R&S Records
Displayed are all keyframes of cut 45 from EXTRA (1996). The portrait of the main character is broken into three layers of animation: hair, face and neck. Each drawing is used in the cut once or several times. Information about the timesheet is given.
Screening of Tokyo Scanner (2003), Director: Matsu Hiroaki, Supervisor: Mamoru Oshii, Executive Producer: Toshio Yabe, Mori Building
© all photographs by Aki Suzuki, 2011.
The exhibition was kindly supported by:
