Marat Ars is an artist who has worked for both game studios and Plastic Wax, the Australian animation house.
You may remember we featured his work a few years back when he did one of the most badass Mario redesigns I’ve ever seen.
That art up top is not from the kill-it-with-fire Akira movie project. Though if you’ve ever wondered what the classic manga/anime would look like with white people in it, now you’ve got a template.
You can see more of Marat’s work at his CGHub page.
To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them as wallpaper), click on the “expand” button in the bottom-right corner.
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7 responses to “Well Akira, You Certainly Look Different”
I know it was pointed out that that was not form the Americanised Akira movie, but you frightened me anyway into thinking it was
if you could NOT name images original.jpg
THAT’D BE GREAT
They don’t, its the CMS. Note the trailing hash string.
am not a programmer
explain like im 5
thanks
When you upload pictures on these CMSes, it generates a hash (unique string), a thumbnail, and the original image (usually). Instead of being uniquename.jpg, its folder structure is like /uniquehash/original.jpg
His work is absolutely fantastic, but he draws hands too big imo. Kind of breaks the images for me.
That Akira is just…urgh. It looks dated ALREADY, as opposed to the original Akira which still looks great.