Shuichi Kusamori Animation Art Collection
『Shuichi Kusamori Animation Art Collection』/ Shuichi Kusamori (Author)Size: 182 x 257mm, 384 pages (Full Color / Hardcover)Price: ¥6,050 -X Book newly-released and unused.Available for immediate purchase.The first art collection by Shuichi Kusamori, an animation art director.He handled the landscape depictions for Innocence (based on the work by Masamune Shirow, directed by Mamoru Oshii), Metropolis (based on the work by Osamu Tezuka, screenplay by Katsuhiro Otomo, directed by Rintaro), X - The Movie (based on the work by CLAMP, directed by Rintaro), and the PSYCHO-PASS series, which were not reflections of real-life cityscapes or nature, but were drawn as imaginary landscapes to build the worldviews of SF and fantasy.Shuichi Kusamori has conveyed fictional worlds with overwhelming realism.This book is the first art collection to comprehensively include Shuichi Kusamori's animation art works from the past 40 years.In addition to the art from a wide range of works such as Innocence, Metropolis, X - The Movie, the PSYCHO-PASS series, Infini-T Force, Divine Gate, Patlabor the Movie, and GHOST IN THE SHELL, it also includes novel illustrations and original newly drawn works.Shuichi Kusamori:Animation art director. He began working on background art for animation works in the early 1980s, and served as the art director (credited as art) for his first theatrical film, The Weathering Continent in 1992. Afterwards, he worked on the art for notable films such as X - The Movie (1996), Metropolis (2001), and Innocence (2004), and was in charge of the art for PSYCHO-PASS and other works.