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Michael Arias
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Award-winning filmmaker, director of “cult animé” TEKKONKINKREET 😬 映像ジャンルや国籍を超えてボーダレスに活躍し、映画『鉄コン筋クリート』で監督デビューを飾ったクリエイター😅 https://michaelarias.net
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Here is one of the completed image boards ("style frames") complete w BG by the great Shinji Kimura. This was the first time we ran our entire cel "pipeline" (smeared brown ink, mottled paint, soft shadows) mated with a real BG.

#Tekkon #AmerBeton #anime #アニメ #西見祥示郎 #木村真二 #松本大洋 #鉄コン
February 5, 2026 at 10:39 PM
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Callipeg の作業画面です。

apps.apple.com/jp/app/calli...

タイムラインで、フリップ（パラパラ）したいコマに付箋をつけると、その付箋をつけたところだけでフリップすることもできますので、中割り時に、とても便利です。
タップ割も使えますし、補助ツールもあります。

#callipeg
February 5, 2026 at 10:34 AM
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New fuck/marry/kill list just dropped
February 4, 2026 at 6:05 AM
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Nothing says "nothing to hide" like indignant overreaction.
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Our Fearless Leader in action.
February 3, 2026 at 11:49 AM
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Layouts for our first three image boards ("style frames" outside of Japan?), drawn by our brilliant Animation Sup / Character Designer Shojiro Nishimi (on #Animatrix paper, since this was all we had in the studio with 'scope frame markings 😅)

#Tekkon #AmerBeton #anime #アニメ #西見祥示郎 #松本大洋 #鉄コン
Layout #1 for an image board ("style frame" outside of Japan?), drawn by our brilliant Animation Sup / Character Designer Shojiro Nishimi. This was meant to be a fully realized frame, with BG, effects, etc. Layout #2 for an image board ("style frame" outside of Japan?), drawn by our brilliant Animation Sup / Character Designer Shojiro Nishimi. This was meant to be a fully realized frame, with BG, effects, etc. Layout #3 for an image board ("style frame" outside of Japan?), drawn by our brilliant Animation Sup / Character Designer Shojiro Nishimi. This was meant to be a fully realized frame, with BG, effects, etc.
February 3, 2026 at 11:42 AM
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🥰
February 2, 2026 at 12:23 AM
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positive reviews to follow 😑
January 31, 2026 at 1:09 AM
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zounds!!!
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Very impressive:
A new 65mm high-speed camera reaching up to 800 fps.
Our compliments and deepest respect to the developers of this masterpiece of engineering.
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January 30, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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Tiny bit of #TEKKON behind-the-scenes, peak 4℃ (maybe not everyone agrees). Shojiro Nishimi, Shinji Kimura, Chie Uratani, Masahiko Kubo, Takuma Sakamoto, Miyuki Ito, Kazuhiro Takei, Hiroaki Ando, me... They've all moved on.

#TEKKON #AmerBeton #鉄コン #anime
Music @plaidmusic.bsky.social
January 30, 2026 at 6:29 AM
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Welcome John Carpenter's THE THING to the National Film Registry! bloody-disgusting.com/movie/393134...
John Carpenter’s ‘The Thing’ Has Been Added to the National Film Registry
John Carpenter‘s The Thing has been selected by the Library of Congress as one of this year’s 25 films to join the National Film Registry due to their cultural, historic or aesthetic importance to pre...
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January 29, 2026 at 2:38 PM
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#TEKKON BG department: Hideki Nakamura, Akemi Konno, Hiroyuki Itō, Keita Sakai, Makoto Shiraishi, and of course the great Shinji Kimura.

No one makes BG like this anymore!

Music by @plaidmusic.bsky.social
#AmerBeton #鉄コン筋クリート #Anime #AnimeBG #木村真二
January 26, 2026 at 11:39 PM
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BG elements for our fly through of Treasure Town (scene 1 cut 6), painted by the great Shinji Kimura, and "perspective mapped" (「パース・マップ」) onto riverside 3D geo.

Staff names in the signage: Michael (me), Nishimi, Uratani, Ando, Kubo...

#Tekkon #鉄コン #木村真二 #anime #アニメ #背景美術
background painting for the opening sequence of Tekkonkinkreet, depicting riverside buildings and signage background painting for the opening sequence of Tekkonkinkreet, depicting riverside buildings and signage background painting for the opening sequence of Tekkonkinkreet, depicting riverside buildings and signage background painting for the opening sequence of Tekkonkinkreet, depicting riverside buildings and signage
January 25, 2026 at 11:56 PM
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🎉 yay!
@mailysvallade.bsky.social Liane-Cho Han, Nidia Santiago and Henri Magalon
mailysvallade.bsky.social Maïlys Vallade @mailysvallade.bsky.social · 20d
Our LITTLE AMELIE is nominated to the 98th OSCARS!!!! It's enormous!!! thanks to everyone who supported the film since the beggening and now, and wanted this very special gaze we tried to bring there, run the world like that!!!! Congratulations to our crazy team!!!! And all the nominees!!
January 22, 2026 at 10:04 PM
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Japanese animation in decline
January 22, 2026 at 9:53 PM
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Possibly the only fun I had making my movie HARMONY was designing and animating all the screens. (Sometimes I wish I could just lock myself in a room for six months and do nothing but monitor graphics.)

#anime #graphicdesign #UI #projectItoh #伊藤計劃 #ハーモニー
January 22, 2026 at 12:26 AM
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There it is!
January 21, 2026 at 3:48 AM
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Introduce yourself w 5 concerts you’ve seen 🎶

The Cure (Pornography tour)
Simple Minds (New Gold Dream tour)
Tones On Tail
The Chameleons
Cocteau Twins
January 20, 2026 at 7:23 AM
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歌舞伎座
January 16, 2026 at 6:31 AM
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I loved hearing @johnaugust.bsky.social and Craig discuss obsessive screenwriting habits with Mike Makowsky. It made me feel slightly vindicated in my need to keep every paragraph of descriptive prose to no more than three lines.

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716 - Personality Typologies
Podcast Episode · Scriptnotes Podcast · 12/16/2025 · 1h 7m
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January 13, 2026 at 12:48 AM
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Early on "photomo" (フォトモ) photo-dioramas by Kimio Itozaki (糸崎公朗) really inspired us, so Shinji made #TEKKON photomo-style paper craft models for experiments (physical and virtual).

Print and build! 🏗

fotomo.kitaibunshi.com

#鉄コン #AMERBETON #anime #アニメ #松本大洋 #TaiyoMatsumoto #背景 #木村真二
Hand-painted photomo-style paper craft element by art director Shinji Kimura for TEKKONKINKREET development Hand-painted photomo-style paper craft element by art director Shinji Kimura for TEKKONKINKREET development Kimio Itozaki photomo Copyright © Kimio Itozaki / 糸崎公朗 All Rights Reserved.
January 11, 2026 at 11:17 PM
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🙂 Here is the massive 180° layout that opens #TEKKONKINKREET cut 06. Though we had endlessly discussed the shot, it took a moment to make sense of the layout when Kimura-san first revealed it. 🙃 So cool! #鉄コン筋クリート #AMERBETON #TaiyoMatsumoto #ShinjiKimura #松本大洋 #木村真二 #anime #animebg
December 9, 2024 at 12:16 AM
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From TEKKONKINKREET scene 1 cut 6, spectacular layout and hand-painted BG elements. The plan for executing this (including the 180° roll) is all from the great Shinji Kimura.

#TEKKON #鉄コン #AMERBETON #anime #アニメ #松本大洋 #TaiyoMatsumoto #背景 #木村真二
An interesting layout from TEKKONKKINKREET scene 1 cut 6, incorporating a 180° roll in the move A background painting (by the great Shinji Kimura) from TEKKONKKINKREET scene 1 cut 6, incorporating a 180° roll A background painting (by the great Shinji Kimura) from TEKKONKKINKREET scene 1 cut 6 — clouds seen at the start of the move A background painting (by the great Shinji Kimura) from TEKKONKKINKREET scene 1 cut 6 — clouds seen at the end of the move
January 8, 2026 at 10:07 AM
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TEKKONKINKREET One thing that was fun but also complicated was the large number of costume changes. Shiro had EIGHT outfits (included naked). Black also eight (not counting the Minotaur).

Character design: Shojiro Nishimi
Colors: Miyuki Ito

#TEKKON #鉄コン #AMERBETON #anime #アニメ #松本大洋 #TaiyoMatsumoto
Color specs for TEKKONKINKREET Shiro (winter wear). Character design by Shojiro Nishimi / Colors by Miyuki Ito. Color specs for TEKKONKINKREET Shiro (indoor wear). Character design by Shojiro Nishimi / Colors by Miyuki Ito. Color specs for TEKKONKINKREET Shiro (parrot hat). Character design by Shojiro Nishimi / Colors by Miyuki Ito. Color specs for TEKKONKINKREET Shiro (tongue tee). Character design by Shojiro Nishimi / Colors by Miyuki Ito.
January 5, 2026 at 10:39 PM
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Yakuza flunkies Goshima, Ota, Yasuda, and Adachi. Not much glory for these guys.

Character design: Shojiro Nishimi / Colors: Miyuki Ito

#TEKKON #鉄コン #anime #アニメ #松本大洋 #TaiyoMatsumoto #AMERBETON
Color specs for TEKKONKINKREET yakuza flunky Goshima. Character design by Shojiro Nishimi / Colors by Miyuki Ito. Color specs for TEKKONKINKREET yakuza flunky Ota. Character design by Shojiro Nishimi / Colors by Miyuki Ito. Color specs for TEKKONKINKREET yakuza flunky Yasuda. Character design by Shojiro Nishimi / Colors by Miyuki Ito. Color specs for TEKKONKINKREET yakuza flunky Adachi. Character design by Shojiro Nishimi / Colors by Miyuki Ito.
January 5, 2026 at 10:31 PM
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Left on the cutting room floor...

These characters never made it into the final film, though we storyboarded, did layouts and rough animation for their scene.

Character design: Shojiro Nishimi / Colors: Miyuki Ito / BG: the great Shinji Kimura.

#TEKKON #鉄コン #anime #アニメ #松本大洋
Character color plan for scene 206 of TEKKONKINKREET. Character design by Shojiro Nishimi, colors by Miyuki Ito. A page from VIZ's English-language version of TEKKONKINKREET (originally titled BLACK AND WHITE in English)
January 5, 2026 at 12:48 PM