Illustration format: 70 x 50 cm (or 27,56 x 19,68 inches), offset printing on high quality paper.

The context

This illustration shows the production imageboard used during pre-production to direct the artwork of the film Ghost in the Shell.

In the previous cut of this scene it starts raining and daylight gradually turns into night. From this cut onwards, Hiromasa Ogura, the art director of the feature drew the final production backgrounds of the sequence himself. The artwork features signboards that protrude like tentacles from a deformed building. The impression of the signboards reaching out into the space of the old town in all directions is further emphasized by capturing it with a wide-angle lens.

(Source: Riekeles Gallery)

The artist - Hiromasa Ogura

(photo © Yasuyuki Takagi, 2021)

Hiromasa Ogura (小倉宏昌), born 1954 in Tokyo, started working in animation at Kobayashi Production in 1977. He worked on Space Adventure Cobra (1982), and painted backgrounds for Hayao Miyazaki’s Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro (1979). In 1988 he contributed several background paintings to Akira and was the art director of Patlabor – The Movie (1988), Patlabor 2 – The Movie (1993) and Ghost in the Shell (1995).

In 2007 Ogura founded his own studio Ogura Koubou. Since then he directed the art work of Ghost Hound (2007), Black Butler (2008), Strike Witches (2008) and Sora no Otoshimono (2009).

More recently, he has worked on multiple TV series with a dark tone, like 91 Days (2016) and the highly anticipated Junji Ito Collection (2018).

Ghost in the Shell - The story

The Art Print

This art print is published by Galerie Riekeles, in collaboration with the author and Kodansha. It is a high-quality reproduction, as faithful as possible to the original work, accurately rendering down to the smallest detail the breathtaking landscapes and backgrounds that made the anime from which they are taken international successes.

Ghost in the Shell - The author

A video to find out more about the creator of Ghost in the Shell, Masamune Shirow.

Shipping

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