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GATSU
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It's a fun exhibit, but surprisingly empty. Maybe more people will show up on Memorial Day weekend?
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Gilles Poitras
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Back in 1999 Mike Glad and I co-curated Anime Made In Japan, an exhibit of cels and artifacts at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francsico.
I would love to get a look at his collection these days, it was most impressive ten years ago. |
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Doggie Kruger
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I just came back from the exhibition.
The Good thing: It was awesome Tha Bad thing: You can`t take pictures So if the person who did the review can share some more, I`ll be more than happy. Last edited by Doggie Kruger on Sat May 16, 2009 8:35 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Magamish
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That lone End of Eva cell is sweet. The breadth is quite decent in of itself. =p <3 cels.
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reanimator
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I think this is just a bunch of rich collectors showing off their cel collection without even caring about history behind those cels. Nor they would be interested in production process behind those cels, drawings and BG paintings. I don't collect cel paints nor has desire to buy one, but I would've done thorough job labeling them. Trying to treat the event as a gallery show is a joke. For people who can afford lavish floor space in Beverly Hills, they could've done many ways to identify those cels correctly. Heck, folks at Anipage Daily and Sakuga@wiki would love to offer their service for free. |
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ceriseangel
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While I can't speak for the curator of this exhibit, I interned at the San Francisco Cartoon Art Museum for several months and I always found myself struggling to figure out titles and dates of exhibit pieces. Any information the curators get is mostly from the collectors. If all the curator receives is a cel of an anime that is from Lupin III, then that's all they can put. They can do their own research, but cels do not contain inherent dates, animators or scenes on them so if that information is lost when given to the original collector, there's no way for the curator to know. I remember the CAM asking the collectors questions, but they don't always know themselves. You have to remember that they probably have hundreds of other cels to deal with and curators don't have the time or resources to identify everything about one cel. |
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reanimator
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Of course collectors are not always reliable source of information and curators don't have time and resource to handle hundreds of cels. Okay, that's the reality. The thing is they could have done better with ideal situation that they're in.
It seems like curator has to deal with entire information collection by himself/herself with a small number of supporting staff. Anime is a popular art form with relatively short history and extremely dedicated & knowledgeable hardcore fanbase. Why not take advantage of the situation before memory fades away? Why not farm out information gathering to hardcore fans who would love to contribute for free? We're not talking about some ancient artifact which lost most of its information ages ago. Good thing is that Japanese are pretty thorough with staff credit for each TV episode and fan-base is reliable in a popular title. I'm no expert on Lupin 3rd, but if I had a unknown Lupin cel, I would ask various people for identification. Hopefully information about these cels improves as it makes tour around the world. |
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GATSU
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I'm more impressed that they had food.
The only Lupin stuff they got, to my knowledge is from Miyazaki's work on the second series, which would mean between 79-80. If you E-bay the Streamline tape "Lupin's Greatest Capers", you'll be able to recognize it.
Woulda been smarter to pay for a trip to see the cels so he could touch and correct them.
I'm surprised how much Wedding Peach crap there was there. It was kind of awkward bringin' my mom and havin' her see the one which had them in skivviez, though. |
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Spoofer
 Posts: 356 Location: NY |
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Ooh, purty purty Oscar François de Jarjayes cels; I wants. =o
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darkhappy1
 Posts: 495 Location: PA |
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Lack of info or not, those are some pretty cells to look at. Especially the Evangelion one.
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LondinCalling
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That Evangelion Cell is golden.
But this collecter has NO RESPECT! |
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reanimator
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Although it's impossible to find out who painted those cels, I figured out who's drew the original drawings behind Akira cels.
Akira cel: Tetsuo covered with fire-fighting foam Key Animation: Toyoaki Emura (key animation: Jinroh and Ghost in the Sehll) Animation correction: Koji Morimoto (dir. of Animatrix and Genius Party Beyond) Cel coloring: Since it's impossible to identify which ink & paint artist painted cel, the credit goes to three color key artists/color coordinator: Kimie Yamana, Michiko Ikeuchi, Setsuko Tanaka Pan shot of Kaneda's bike in the Olympic stadium key animation: Toshio Kawaguchi (animation supervisor: Pompoko and Porco Rosso) Kaneda looking back while riding his motorcycle key animation: Shinji Hashimoto (character designer of Animatrix: Kid's story) Reference Source: "AKira Animation Archive" (Kodansha, 2002) Kenji Kamiyama (dir. Ghost in the Shell TV) was just BG artist of AKira. Maybe he painted one of those BG's on display. Who knows? The mystery remains. |
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fighterholic
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I would have my doubts about it. If regular photography is prohibited, then Zac was allowed to do it albeit a limited amount because of his industry involvement. The purpose of the Zac taking pictures was to give us a preview and an idea of what to expect if and when we go. And it's probably a one time thing on his part, so I wouldn't hold my breath on it. |
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ANN_Bamboo
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Comments like this confuse me. Just because you think something should be in someone else's private collection... doesn't mean it's in there. Maybe they don't like the same things you do. Shock. |
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Fallen Wings
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Of course people don't like all the shows I like. Just this show was showing alot of famous shows and I personally thinking that if all these classics were there then I would assume Harlock/ Galaxy Express 999 would have been there. Also I completely missed that part where it did belong only to one guy and his wife, if I didn't skimp over that I would have most likely wouldn't have said that. But again I did therefore I feel like an idiot for missing that. |
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