“During the production of the Steamboy film, what I put my most effort in was the process of layouts, and I did my best to check every detail. Once this process is done precisely, we will get great backgrounds from our art team. This makes the team effort fun. I can't create a movie by myself. It is worthy only because many staff bring new ideas and techniques. I think the appeal of being the director is to encounter such new things, which I don't possess. It is absolutely wonderful to create something new based on teamwork. It is something that I couldn't appreciate in my cartoonist days.” ThinkingArtDoneFilmFunEffortWonderfulTeamAppreciateWorthySomething NewTeamworkCartoonist Author:Katsuhiro Otomo
“The cartoonist's work is solitary; even when dealing with editors and assistants, there is no such excitement as to creating unexpected drastic changes for projects. But by the same token, manga can't be drawn by a lot of people, as done in film.” PeopleDoneFilmExcitementUnexpectedSolitaryDrastic Author:Katsuhiro Otomo