AKIRA - Kaneda's Bike

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Here is Kaneda's bike from manga series "Akira".  Kaneda's futuristic motorcycle has become an iconic feature of the series. As the group's leader, Kaneda is entitled to have the most technologically and aesthetically advanced bike. It is a high performance red racing motorbike of unspecified make and model.  AKIRA is also a 1988 Japanese epic animated science fiction thriller film directed by Katsuhiro Otomo.     The film depicts a dystopian version of Tokyo in the year 2019, with cyberpunk tones. The plot focuses on teenage biker Tetsuo Shima and his psychic powers, and the leader of his biker gang, Shotaro Kaneda. Kaneda tries to prevent Tetsuo from releasing the imprisoned psychic Akira.  If you missed the movie I highly recommend to watch it as soon as possible:     The design of the bike followed Katsushiro Otomo original blueprints and sketches, I used Rhinoceros 3D to build the body and then Zbrush to add details to it.