steamboy

[pete]

looks like some kind of animated rocketman thing.

http://www.apple.co.jp/quicktime/trailers/toho/steamboy_large.html

[Find Your Magali]

looks like some kind of animated rocketman thing.

http://www.apple.co.jp/quicktime/trailers/toho/steamboy_large.html

Saw the preview for this on Tokyo Godfathers. Seems interesting. I've still never seen Akira, so maybe I should check that out first.

[Ravi]

http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/steamboy/

A retro science-fiction epic set in Victorian England, Steamboy features an inventor prodigy named Ray Steam who receives a mysterious metal ball containing a new form of energy capable of powering an entire nation. This young boy must use it to fight evil, redeem his family, and save London from destruction. The lush Victorian interiors and the elegance of the era's mechanical design allows Otomo to create dazzling visual backgrounds and machines for this film. With more than 180,000 drawing and 400 CG cuts, Steamboy is sure to be one of the most elaborate animated features of 2004.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0348121/trivia

Used 180,000 individual drawings.

A new record for the most expensive Japanese animated film. The film cost around $20 million to make.

Began production in 1995 and due to financial problems, the film was put on hiatus in 1998. Production companies Production I.G and Sunrise got involved and brought the film back to production. A total of eight years was spent for the making of the film.

Features around 400 3D-cuts.