One of our early experiments in hybrid cinematography — a fisheye/dolly shot (using my toon rendering and fisheye code). Test is from July 2004, about two years before production was complete.

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#TEKKONKINKREET comp of some WIP (from a dubbing reel) w finished picture. Sequence partly inspired by the dreamy opening of Malick's 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙣 𝙍𝙚𝙙 𝙇𝙞𝙣𝙚, boarded and animated by Chie Uratani — I can't sing her praises enough 🎶 she is AWESOME!

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Rigging for our 1999 #Tekkonkinkreet CG pilot film resulted in one of those schematic views only visible through a microscope.

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‪Another 2004 experiment in hybrid cinematography — a crane/dolly shot. (Maybe these days we'd call it a drone shot 🤷) Never used this move in the movie, though we did many big aerial shots.

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From a #Tekkonkinkreet promo DVD, demo of our hybrid cinematography. Takuma Sakamoto and colleagues like Yusuke Tannawa (and the BG folks!) did most of the heavy lifting, but I got my hands plenty dirty too 😬

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I was still using #Softimage #XSI and my #ToonRender tools for the lo-fi HUD graphics

Whip WIP
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Passes for Toon-rendered vehicles #TEKKONKINKREET scene 1 shot 92. Hard-surfaces give clean contours, but we would often add jitter to the ink lines (similarly, splotches to the "paint")

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