Watch Hideaki Anno Live His Best Life as Shin Ultraman’s Mocap Actor

Hideaki Anno appears to simply be doing regardless of the hell he needs after he lastly wrapped up Neon Genesis Evangelion (for now, no less than). He obtained to make an Ultraman film and he’s now directing a Kamen Rider one, letting him reside out creating a brand new chapter for 2 of his lifelong superhero obsessions. And it seems for no less than a kind of, he somewhat actually helped carry them to life.

Now that Shin Ultraman has been out some time in Japan, new behind-the-scenes footage of the film’s VFX work has been launched—revealing that none aside from Anno himself offered the movement seize work for Ultraman’s arrival within the film, and the primary time the large of sunshine crosses his arms to unleash the enduring specium beam assault.

It’s not probably the most strenuous bodily seize work, positive, but it surely’s principally pleasant as a result of Anno is an Ultraman die-hard himself, and embodying the character brings him full circle to certainly one of his earliest works as a movie pupil: The Return of Ultraman: MAT Arrow 1 Takeoff Order, a half-hour Ultraman story Anno made for Daicon IV, the 1983 Japan SF Convention. The brief stars Anno himself in what can loosely be described as “in costume” as Ultraman, however in actuality principally simply carrying an Ultraman Jack-themed jacket.

And so, now he’s an official a part of the Ultraman legacy somewhat actually. The actual query stays although: are we going to get him to do a Rider transformation pose in Shin Kamen Rider?

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