Illustration format: 50 x 70 cm (or 19.68 x 29.56 inches), offset printing on high quality paper Radiant White 270 g/m².

The context

This illustration shows the progress of the imageboard, used during the filming of AKIRA and features the dramatic, penultimate scene of the film: Tetsuo and his friends drive towards the ruins of the city just after seeing Neo Tokyo explode to ashes.

As seen in the animated film:

The artist - Hiroshi Ohno

(picture © Riekeles Gallery)

Hiroshi Ohno (大野広司) is the art director of the animated film Kiki's Delivery Service, and an excellent artist, with some of the most iconic paintings depicting the film's many landscapes and backgrounds.

Director of Studios FUGA, Hiroshi Ohno also worked as art director for Hiroyuki Okiura on the film Letter to Momo (2011) and for Mamoru Hosoda on the film The Wolf Children, Ame & Yuki. In 2015, he was also the art director for Keiichi Hara's Miss Hokusai, which won the Jury Prize at the Annecy Animation Festival.