A collaboration art piece on Guillermo del Toro’s “The Shape of Water” film has been done by artist Yoshitaka Amano and was opened in Japan on Thursday.
Amano is known to regularly illustrate different collaboration and tribute art with his most recognized work being for the “Vampire Hunter D” and the “Final Fantasy” series. Having been in the anime industry since he was 15 and had joined the Tatsunoko Production, Amano has contributed to many anime and video game projects as well as with English graphic novelist Neil Gaiman on “Sandman: The Dream Hunters”
According to Amano, when creating the piece, he had imagined the creature’s original underwater home. He also stated of how much he like the 60’s and 70’s era of America shown in the film as it reminded him of his own time living there.
“Shape of Water” is currently nominated for 13 awards at the 90th Academy Awards. It made its debut in 2017 and had Guillermo del Toro as the director who also worked on the production and writing of the film. Other than this film, Guillermo del Toro is also known to have worked on the “Hellboy” films and “Pan’s Labyrinth.”
The American fantasy drama film tells of a mute woman name Elisa Esposito. She lives alone in an apartment above a cinema, and works as a cleaning-woman at a secret government laboratory in Baltimore at the height of the Cold War. One day the facility receives a mysterious creature captured from a South American river by Colonel Richard Strickland, who is in charge of the project to study it.
When curiosity gets the better of her, Elisa discovers that the mysterious creature is a humanoid amphibian. As she continues to visit the creature, she begins to form an unlikely and close bond with him.
Starring in the are the following:
Sally Hawkins as Elisa Esposito
Michael Shannon as Colonel Richard Strickland, a corrupt military official in charge of the project to study the “asset”.
Richard Jenkins as Giles, Elisa’s closeted neighbor and close friend who is a struggling advertising illustrator.
Octavia Spencer as Zelda Delilah Fuller, Elisa’s co-worker and friend who serves as her interpreter.
Michael Stuhlbarg as Dimitri Mosenkov, a scientist studying the asset who is secretly a Soviet spy working under the alias “Dr. Robert Hoffstetler”.
Doug Jones as Amphibian Man, an amphibious creature referred to as the “asset”
Source: AnimeNewsNetwork