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Really, no one makes BG like this anymore 🪦

#Tekkonkinkreet BG crew at work 🏗️ Hideki Nakamura, Akemi Konno, Hiroyuki Itō, Keita Sakai, Makoto Shiraishi, and of course the great Shinji Kimura.

🎼 = #Plaid 🎉

#AmerBeton #鉄コン筋クリート #Anime #AnimeBG #HandPainted
February 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
michaelarias.net
One of our early experiments in hybrid cinematography — a fisheye/dolly shot (using my toon rendering and fisheye code). Test is from July 2004, about two years before production was complete.

#TEKKONKINKREET #AMERBETON #鉄コン筋クリート #anime #animebg #toonrender #softimage
December 13, 2024 at 7:22 PM
michaelarias.net
#TEKKON BG department: Hideki Nakamura, Akemi Konno, Hiroyuki Itō, Keita Sakai, Makoto Shiraishi, and of course the great Shinji Kimura.

No one makes BG like this anymore!

Music by @plaidmusic.bsky.social
#AmerBeton #鉄コン筋クリート #Anime #AnimeBG #木村真二
January 26, 2026 at 11:39 PM
michaelarias.net
‪Another 2004 experiment in hybrid cinematography — a crane/dolly shot. (Maybe these days we'd call it a drone shot 🤷) Never used this move in the movie, though we did many big aerial shots.

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December 16, 2024 at 5:15 AM
michaelarias.net


🙂 Here is the massive 180° layout that opens #TEKKONKINKREET cut 06. Though we had endlessly discussed the shot, it took a moment to make sense of the layout when Kimura-san first revealed it. 🙃 So cool! #鉄コン筋クリート #AMERBETON #TaiyoMatsumoto #ShinjiKimura #松本大洋 #木村真二 #anime #animebg
December 9, 2024 at 12:16 AM
michaelarias.net
One of the many 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥-𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 elements in #TEKKONKINKREET cut 06. I'm not sure which I prefer—painted or pencil—they're both cool! (This was one of the first group of 20 or so "test" shots chosen to push us to the limit)

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December 25, 2024 at 11:21 PM
michaelarias.net
#Bluesky ＋ clouds

Nicker Poster Color on paper

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michaelarias.net Michael Arias @michaelarias.net · Nov 28
#TEKKONKINKREET shot 6: Shinji Kimura's hand-painted sky BGs 🐦‍⬛ #鉄コン筋クリート カット６: 木村 真二さんの手描きの空BG

#AMERBETON #TaiyoMatsumoto #松本大洋 #anime
February 23, 2025 at 9:39 PM
michaelarias.net
#TEKKONKINKREET shot 6: more riverside layout (from guide geo), and corresponding painting 🧐 #鉄コン筋クリート カット６: 3DCGデータによる背景原図、そして木村さんの手描きBG画 😅

#AMERBETON #TaiyoMatsumoto #ShinjiKimura #松本大洋 #木村真二 #anime #animebg
December 8, 2024 at 10:41 PM
michaelarias.net
From a #Tekkonkinkreet promo DVD, demo of our hybrid cinematography. Takuma Sakamoto and colleagues like Yusuke Tannawa (and the BG folks!) did most of the heavy lifting, but I got my hands plenty dirty too 😬

🎼 = #Plaid 🎉

#AmerBeton #鉄コン筋クリート #anime #Softimage #XSI #toonrender #animebg
December 15, 2024 at 6:51 AM
michaelarias.net
#Tekkonkinkreet scene 3 cut 102 features a nice panning background, explained nicely by a thumbnail sketch in the margin of Masahiko Kubo's storyboard for Kuro's invasion of the yakuza office.

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#Tekkonkinkreet s3c102 panning background #Tekkonkinkreet s3c102 #Tekkonkinkreet s3c102 thumbnail diagram of panning background
February 11, 2025 at 1:49 AM
michaelarias.net
In Japan we call this kind of mock-up of a finished frame an “image board” and this was our very first for #Tekkonkinkreet

Layout by our brilliant character/animation lead Shojiro Nishimi, BG by the great Shinji Kimura.

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#Tekkonkinkreet image board L/O #1 by Shojiro Nishimi. Note instructions to inbetweener to trace the character even outside the frame, and also pointing out the need for preserving color traces for shadows, in the eyes and around lips. #Tekkonkinkreet image board #1, completed, with BG by art director Shinji Kimura. This was finished in March 2004, nearly three years before our release
February 12, 2025 at 4:35 PM
michaelarias.net
Nishimi's layouts for the first #Tekkonkinkreet image boards—you can tell this was very early in the process because we're using #Animatrix L/O paper with its ANIMA label (Animatrix having been our only other 'scope project)

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Layout for #Tekkonkinkreet image board #1 by animation lead / character designer Shojiro Nishimi Layout for #Tekkonkinkreet image board #2 by animation lead / character designer Shojiro Nishimi Layout for #Tekkonkinkreet image board #3 by animation lead / character designer Shojiro Nishimi
March 1, 2025 at 3:18 AM
michaelarias.net
#Tekkonkinkreet art dir. Shinji Kimura and I were inspired by Kimio Itozaki's books of papercraft "photo-montage" scenes, and made our own hand-painted "photomo" of Treasure Town streets.

Cut out, assemble, and share!

#AmerBeton #鉄コン筋クリート #anime #animeBG #木村真二 #photography #photomo #papercraft
#Tekkonkinkreet hand-painted "photomo"-style papercraft buildings. Cut out, assemble, and share! #Tekkonkinkreet hand-painted "photomo"-style papercraft accessories. Cut out, assemble, and share! https://www.asahi.com/and/photo/20180115/178285/403971209
February 19, 2025 at 7:16 PM
michaelarias.net
#Tekkonkinkreet our second image board (clearly still feeling around for the look)

3/2004, nearly three years before the film was out. L/O by genius character/animation lead Shojiro Nishimi, BG by the great Shinji Kimura.

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#Tekkonkinkreet image board 2. L/O by Shojiro Nishimi, still searching for the sweet spot #Tekkonkinkreet image board 2. Shinji Kimura's nighttime BG gives the scene a very nice hard-boiled vibe, like something from a Seijun Suzuki film
February 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
michaelarias.net
#TEKKONKINKREET shot 6: (a) "3D layout" guide pics for various buildings, and (b) corresponding Shinji Kimura BG paintings (with perspective and lighting, of course)😅 #鉄コン筋クリート カット６: (a)様々な建物の「3Dレイアウト」ガイド用の画像、(b)それに適する対応する木村真二のBG画（当然、パースとライティング込みで）😵‍💫

#AMERBETON #TaiyoMatsumoto #松本大洋 #anime #animebg
"3D layout" guide pictures for various buildings corresponding Shinji Kimura BG paintings
November 22, 2024 at 6:16 PM
michaelarias.net
#TEKKONKINKREET shot 6: guide pics for the riverside, and corresponding hand-painted elements (with perspective, lighting, and Kimura's sense of humor) 🧐 #鉄コン筋クリート カット６: 背景原図（２点）、それに合う手描きBG画（当然、パースとライティング込みで、木村さんらしいギャグも）😅

#AMERBETON #TaiyoMatsumoto #ShinjiKimura #松本大洋 #木村木村真二 #anime #animebg
partial 3d background layout (背景原図) hand-painted BG element partial 3d background layout (背景原図) hand-painted BG element
December 5, 2024 at 12:01 AM
michaelarias.net
Shinji Kimura’s ingenious designs for Kiddie Kastle (子供の城) towers—my obsession with Bernd & Hilla Becher’s photo-studies of gas tanks, water towers, and blast furnaces (hochöfen) evident in the shapes that make up the towers

#Tekkonkinkreet #鉄コン筋クリート #AmerBeton #anime #animeBG #木村真二 #ShinjiKimura
B-032 pencil design of central tower @ Kiddie Kastle amusement park, featuring chair swing B-033 pencil design of tower @ Kiddie Kastle amusement park, featuring demented ferris wheel and spinning casket ride B-034 pencil design of tower @ Kiddie Kastle amusement park, featuring psychotic gravity drop ride B-029 overview of Kiddie Kastle amusement park — a clever composite of the preview three drawings
December 30, 2024 at 2:46 AM
michaelarias.net
Some great #TEKKONKINKREET BG elements from scene 1 cut 6. These go by in a flash, but they're loaded with goofy visual "Easter eggs" (see alt text), evidence of Art Director Shinji Kimura's quirky sense of humor 😁

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Tekkonkinkreet scene 1 cut 6 BG element containing various "Easter eggs" ("Kubo" from animation supervisor Masahiko Kubo, and "舞蹴" i.e., "Mai-Keru," presumably for Michael Arias) Tekkonkinkreet scene 1 cut 6 BG element containing various "Easter eggs" ("F.I.S.T." for one of Shinji Kimura's favorite 1970s films) Tekkonkinkreet scene 1 cut 6 BG element containing various "Easter eggs" (an old school billboard for "キリン・ラガー") Tekkonkinkreet scene 1 cut 6 BG element containing various "Easter eggs" (animation sup Nishimi, animation sup Uratani, director Michael all have their names hidden in here)
April 4, 2025 at 9:23 PM
annagothic.bsky.social
Is anyone looking for comic and fantasy artwork? DM me #illustration #GraphicDesigner #animation #characterdesign #conceptart #ComicArt #logo #banner #foryou #emote #thumbnail #flyer #posterdesign #artist #motiongraphic #coverart #animebg #albumcover #intro #Overlay #GFX
February 19, 2024 at 4:49 PM
witchynade.bsky.social
Credit if you use pls
And post it in the coms ! I'll create a folder so i can archive your drawings <3
Don't use for commercial use (commission, YCH etc)
Can use for art trade, own art and fanart.
#resource #artresource #f2Ubackground #f2UBG #animeBG
January 13, 2026 at 10:12 AM
michaelarias.net
Storyboards for scene 1 cut 120 ("cut" = anime-speak for "shot") had characters running past across a generic rooftop, but a book of vintage matchbox art (from the Tobacco & Salt Museum!!!) inspired a more distinctive BG.

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scene 1 cut 120 storyboard drawn by our animation lead and character designer, Shojiro Nishimi. scene 1 cut 120 background layout drawn by our animation lead and character designer, Shojiro Nishimi reference for matchbox art scene 1 cut 120 final frame
December 14, 2024 at 5:58 PM
annagothic.bsky.social
Is anyone looking for comic and fantasy artwork? DM me #illustration #GraphicDesigner #animation #characterdesign #conceptart #ComicArt #logo #banner #foryou #emote #thumbnail #flyer #posterdesign #artist #motiongraphic #coverart #animebg #albumcover #intro #Overlay #GFX
February 19, 2024 at 11:04 PM
michaelarias.net
#Tekkonkinkreet our third image board. L/O by character/animation lead Shojiro Nishimi, BG by none other than Shinji Kimura. I got some ideas from Hiroshi Aramata's wonderful 📕 Fantastic Dozen #9: Paradise Fishes 🐡🐟

#AmerBeton #鉄コン筋クリート #anime #animeBG #TaiyoMatsumoto #松本大洋 #AnimationIsFilm
#Tekkonkinkreet Shojiro Nishimi's layout for our third image board, completed 3/2004 (nearly three years before the film was in theaters) #Tekkonkinkreet final comp of our third image board, completed 3/2004 (nearly three years before the film was in theaters) #Tekkonkinkreet cel layers for our third image board, completed 3/2004 (nearly three years before the film was in theaters) Hiroshi Aramata's Fantastic Dozen / Paradise Fishes might be out of print but if you find a copy it's really unique ref 🐡🐟 https://nostos.jp/archives/115478
February 20, 2025 at 6:41 PM
kiariscosentino.bsky.social
WIP 🌸 BG for a very special illustration, my client’s wedding with Nanami Kento 💍
I’m playing with light and color, and also made a B/W version 🌅 Catch me live on Twitch if you’d like to hang out and watch the process 💜 #WIP #DigitalArt #AnimeArt #ArtShare #ArtistSupport #SmallArtist #AnimeBG
November 2, 2025 at 12:12 AM