Renji "Range" Murata (村田 蓮爾 Murata Renji) is a Japaneseartist and designer, known for his unique style combining Art Deco and Japanese anime elements. He is best known for his conceptual design work on anime series Last Exile and Blue Submarine No. 6. Image File history File links Illustration by Range Murata This work is copyrighted. ... Image File history File links Illustration by Range Murata This work is copyrighted. ... Artist is a descriptive term applied to a person who engages in an activity deemed to be an art. ... Designer is a broad term for a person who designs any of a variety of things. ... Asheville City Hall. ... A scene from Cowboy Bebop (1998) Anime (アニメ) is a style of animation originating in Japan. ... Last Exile is an anime series produced in 2003 and created by Gonzo Digimation, the same studio responsible for works such as Blue Submarine No. ... Blue Submarine #6 is the name of a four part Japanese Original Video Animation (OVA) released in the U.S. on April 4, 2000. ...
Born October 2, 1968 in Osaka, Japan, he began his career in the early 1990s doing design work for video games. He still continues to do some work in this area today, having recently done the character designs for the PlayStation 2 game Spy Fiction. October 2 is the 275th day (276th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 90 days remaining. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Osaka Castle Location in Japan Osaka (Japanese: 大阪市, Ōsaka-shi, ▶ (help· info)) is the capital of Osaka Prefecture and the third-largest city in Japan, with a population of 2. ... The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive, the last decade of the 20th Century. ... Computer and video games A screenshot of Tetris for the Nintendo Game Boy A console game (better known as a video game) is a form of interactive multimedia used for entertainment, which consists of a moveable image displayed on a screen that is usually controlled and manipulated using a handheld... The PlayStation 2 (PS2) (Japanese: プレイステーション2) is Sonys second video game console, the successor to the PlayStation and the predecessor to the PlayStation 3. ...
He has published more than a dozen books of his work, some of the most notable being robot, rule, and futurhythm.
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long range bullet, a Range Murata fansite
Range Murata at the Anime News Network Encyclopedia
When Murata created designs for the notable Last Exile series, he finally switched to the computer graphics systems used by much of the industry, he said at a Katsucon panel discussion.
Murata had preferred the feel of paper, but his Last Exile experiences led him to appreciate the power and flexibility of computer-aided design - although he misses having a paper original.
Ironically, the computer designs were used to create the deliberately archaic-looking airborne neverworld of Last Exile, and Murata said the design idea was to look at items that had fallen out of favor in the 21st-century world, such as the typewriter, and imagine how they might have evolved had they not been replaced.
Renji "Range"Murata is a Japanese artist and designer, best known in the United States for his conceptual design work on anime series "Last Exile" and "Blue Submarine No. 6".
Murata graciously gave this interview to Ginger Mayerson of J LHLS in Anaheim, California (across the street from AnimeExpo 2005) on July 3, 2005.
RangeMurata: For "Robot," the first volume, that's being released in the US, and volume 3 is going to be out on July 8 in Japan and I'm currently working on volume 5, and for "Robot" I'm thinking about releasing four, five or six maybe a year.
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