I have a real love for retro cartoons, and by that I mean the tv shows and movies I watched as a kid / young adult. Anime is a genre I really enjoyed and Ghost in the Shell was one of the movies I remember watching quite a few times. When the live action movie was announced I was quite surprised by the casting, but I did go see it and I loved the visual spectacle they created, everything from the major herself to the geisha robots and just the overall feel of it was (imo) awesome.
So I decided to search for source images I really liked and found a couple, combined them into one image, and that became the image I would try to recreate in Forza Horizon 5’s vinyl creator….
I started with the linework of major and the geisha, and adding a bit of colour then I added Batou in a different style, much more cartoonstyle i’d say…Having most of the linework done I started filling/colouring.added the first part that would be more shaded/highlighted/detailedThen Majors face, I did try to get Scarlett Johansson’s features in there…adding the shading and highlights to her lips made it work much better..coloured and detailed the “goggles” and finished Batou.added a bunch more details to fill in the geisha’s internal faceadding these shades and highlights was so much fun, it really made the image so much coolerfinishing it of with the upper bits of the geisha’s face and adding colour and further details to the flower.Once it was all done I tranfered over to the Xbox for a final check, and then onto the layout….
A gift from PGG and T10
While I was creating this vinyl group, pgg/t10 had released an update for the game and with that update came a block from all auction house activities, as a gift for the inconvenience, they sent out 2 rare cars to all players…
That is when I decided to pick one of those cars as my canvas…
