The "Metropolis" series of comics has not been introduced to China, but it has a far-reaching influence in Japan. Its wonderful conception of the future world has influenced many animators, including screenwriter Otomo Keyo. The design of the future city in his "AKIRA" can be seen in many places. It is precisely because he likes Osamu Tezuka's old work 50 years ago that Otomo Keyang agreed to adapt the original work and put it on the screen.
Osamu Tezuka had always opposed making this work into an animation before his death, mainly because he was worried that the production effect would not be able to express his idea perfectly. In addition, the work had an unrestrained and extremely detailed idea of the future city, and it also required certain technical means to be realistic. manifested. In 1996, Lintaro, who had collaborated with Osamu Tezuka on many animation works, believed that the time was ripe and invited Otomo Keyang to join. It took 5 years to produce 150,000 pictures and used advanced CG synthesis technology to produce this Japanese animation. This masterpiece of the film.
"Metropolis" combines traditional graphic animation and three-dimensional animation techniques. The production period of "Metropolis" is 5 years, the total production cost is 1 billion yen, the total number of paintings has reached 150,000, and the income of Xingxing is 750 million yen.