Yoshitaka Amano to Direct his first Film

[Channizard]

Yoshitaka Amano the artist famous for designing the characters in the Science Ninja Team Gatchaman anime franchise and the Final Fantasy game series, is directing his first anime film called Zan for worldwide release next year. To that end, he established his own production studio, Studio Deva Loka, which he is personally heading.

The story of the 3D film begins at the end of the 19th century, when a samurai named Zan is led to a world in an alternate dimension to battle evil. In addition to directing for the first time, Amano conceived the story and drafted the original art.



Last month, Amano hosted an unmanned exhibit space at Tokyo International Anime Fair 2010. The space only contained two white walls adorned with the name "ZAN," and a huge black feline statue twice as big as an average person. He displayed the statue, with a similar lack of explanation or context, at the Opéra de Paris (Palais Garnier) in France last fall. The statue depicts the steel beast named Panther that becomes Zan's partner in the film.

sauce here http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-04-09/final-fantasy-yoshitaka-amano-directs-1st-film-zan

 

[Raiiyokuu]

Who?

 

[Channizard]

How?

 

[Raiiyokuu]

No Seriously. Who?

I have never heard of this guy.

Then again, when was the last time I actually took my time to read the credits of FF games.

 

[Channizard]

This guy right here

 

[Rey]

Amano is the one who did the art of FF. If someone doesnt know that. Then just sad

 

[moogling]

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Not really news, I'll move this over to FF Miscellaneous.

Also... when posting in SE News Approval, it IS post count. Try and keep the spam and discussion to a minimum whilst it is still in the Approval section.

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[Channizard]

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Not really news, I'll move this over to FF Miscellaneous.

I wasn't sure if it would be news worthy or not, I thought I'd just give it a shot.

Also... when posting in SE News Approval, it IS post count. Try and keep the spam and discussion to a minimum whilst it is still in the Approval section.

Yeah I wasn't too too proud of that either, sorry. D;