Freedom Committee's celebration parties are always the best time to catch up on some industry news and gossips, considering all of us are always buried under a ton of work on normal working days. Yesterday we were out celebrating the completion of Freedom's 5th television commercial that is to go live on Japan TV from the 20th April, I will post some pictures once press is released. Matsui-san, my lighting chief, handed me the reins for this project; I must have lighted about 75 percent of all the cuts in this commercial. Tiring, but satisfying too.
Anyway, here are the snippets:
Trivia 1) During the early pre-production stages for Freedom, Otomo Katsuhiro was deciding who should head the project, and
Makoto Shinkai, whose achievements on Distant Star is somewhat of a legend, was also considered. It would have been interesting to see how Freedom would have turned out if he had indeed been director.
Trivia 2) Small talk turned to
Genius Party, Studio 4C's soon to be released animation film. Interestingly, Morita-san, Freedom's director, used to work in 4C.
Trivia 3) Tatsuyuki Tanaka is one of the directors for Genius Party, author of the amazing artbook "
Cannabis Works". Tatsuyuki worked as an animator on Akira; remember Tetsuo's mutating hand ? Sajiki-san, Freedom's character and concept artist, calls him "an absolute genius". Ditto.
