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Swipe File: Judge Dredd And Akira
Chris Weston's cover to Judge Dredd Magazine and the poster to Akira. But why this inspiration? 2000AD Covers asks Chris Weston;
"I think most people know that I recently spent a great deal of time working on a live-action adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo's "Akira." I was literally two weeks away from going out to work in America on official pre-production when the plug was pulled on the whole operation.
This was due to a myriad of reasons: budget, script and the lack of a decent leading man who could carry the film.
Obviously I has immersed myself in Otomo's art during that period and couldn't quite shake off his influence. In particular, I felt primed to draw some heavy sci-fi bike action.
My upcoming Dredd story "The Death of Dan-E Cannon" features a lot of subtle references to "Akira"… it was written to be an episode that showcased Dredd's classic motorbike in all its glory. I went to the trouble of building a 3D model of The Lawmaster in Cinema 4D so I could find some angles of the bike we hadn't seen before. It was while I was flipping the model around that I stumbled across the angle that Otomo took for his famous "Akira" poster…"
And gives us the process…
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