Kaneda

Sculptor: unknown Company: unknown Scale: 1/8 Material: resin Date Completed: 1994 Comments: This is the young hero from Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira. Without a doubt my favorite Japanese comic book and animated movie to date. The animated movie is the greatest one ever made in many senses. It boasts of the largest number of cells/minute and the largest color palate ever used. And it was also the first animated movie to be selected by Criterion for their laser disc catalog. To see it is to believe! Unfortunately, this small resin piece was one of the worst castings I have ever had to work with. Almost every surface had to be smoothed and all the seams redone. The face was a disaster. One leg was much shorter than the other was. The base I made from baked super sculpy in order to keep him from falling over. But it was a labor of love and goes with my other Akira memorabilia that includes an original cel from the movie. The cel is the exact scene that USA Today used for the picture when they did a feature story on Akira.

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