http://bloodisthenewblack.com/featured-product/joy-division/

That's a cool shirt but not $44 cool.

Doesnt look like the shirt is in stock.

A mickey mouse polo for 2 euros. Not sure I like it though, my mom insisted on buying it for me.

so you are 12 now?

Basically, by being a filthy Akira nerd that's been collecting production art from the film for years. It's getting almost impossible to track down cels like these, especially anything with Kaneda's bike in full. So, I spent months sending out emails to anyone who sounded like they might have one. Then, 3 weeks negotiating with an ex-comic shop owner in London to work out a deal for these ones, which are undoubtedly the best I've got. They were pretty steep though, and that's before I send them on a round trip to a lab in the States to be prepped/framed.

That said, they are my pride and joy.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/251070090719?_trksid=p5197.c0.m619&autorefresh=true
been spending entirely too much time and money on ebay lately.

Goddamn, man. Akira is the greatest piece of media I've ever experienced. Changed my life in '97. God speed with collecting it all, good sir.

Okay.

damn your tongue looks as dry as an arab's sandal

and you'll get to live it for the next few hours.

I'm surprised I'm not the only one who loves shit like this. To be honest, I was expecting you guys to call me out for my nerdy antics.

The pencil sketches (or Douga, as they are known) are hand drawn, with different animators taking ownership of different scenes or sections of the movie, based on their personal strengths. The sketches are then traced by hand onto the cels/acetates, before their reverse is hand painted based on the colour coding that you can see in red ink on large Tetsuo kicking sketch (behind the cel). Quite a lot of work, considering the process is repeated 24 times for every second of the film. In some cases, up to nine cel layers are onscreen at any point in time, plus the background painting.

The Tetsuo falling/hallucinating cel is standard size (Although multi-layered), which is around 13.75 inches x 9 inches. The bulk of Akira cels and cels in general are that size. As you can see in the group shot, the others are larger, due to the level of detail required or need for panning, as in the case of the cel featuring Kaneda's bike.