Akira

Akira is an amazing film about gangs that ride bikes and is set in a cyberpunk genre mixed with distopian rural landscapes which is a representation of what the late 1980's thought of the future. This film starts by an establishing shot which shows the ehole city this story is based in, behind the scene footage showcases that this background was all done traditionally and so was the explosion that happens in the first few moments of the film.

the animation was done all traditionally, which makes it one of the best animation ever because the effects they produce is very hard to do traditionally. but since they didnt have the technology we have now it is very impressive to watch all these effects.

I really love the backgrounds they made for this film, this is because of the variety of shapes the buildings use, snd that not all the buildings are same. I would love to learn how they developed these types of buildings and learn how the lighting is made like the picture above.

One of my favourite scenes in the film is this bike scene.

i love this whole sequecne having a battle whilst riding bikes, and each hit felt exciting as each biker that fell with their bike scraped across the ground. the effects in this scene are incredible and must of been very difficult to animate, such as the smoke and the sparks that come from their bikes.