#Lupin III the First

[natade-art]

i love a woman with big doe eyes and big hair and schemes. anything you say beautiful (redraws of some favorite Fujiko screenshots and designs. id in alt text)

[wolfpai999]

This guy, amIright?

[freesiavacadoo]

FUJICAKESSS💋

[soggifin]

My mans 3D model was too good not to be used more I am punching the dirt and kicking and screaming and throwing a fit

[lupincentral]

So cool to see Takashi Yamazaki and the team behind Godzilla Minus One up on stage collecting their Oscar last night. The film is *incredible*, and it stands as my favourite film of last year. I was introduced to Yamazaki's work with Lupin III: The First, as I'm sure many of us were - this is so cool to see.

[yourfavoritescoundrel]

You Should See Me in a Crown... ( Daisuke Jigen Final Cos-test )

People kept finding my earlier costest pics, so here’s a couple of the updated/final test shots of my Daisuke Jigen (this time with full beard, hah). Should’ve posted them a long while ago, but better late than never, right?

The Castle of Cagliostro crown is a bonus prop I made for myself because... Come on. Jigen deserves it no matter what era he’s in.

[cosmosrebellion]

Once again thinking about how dreamy Jigen is in Lupin III The First

[fae-vertee]

Geomon Ishikawa would make a good sub because he is SO repressed it'd be so easy to make him break and have him whimpering

[bestoflupiniiipoll]

Best of Lupin III Poll

[tesseractrave]

In Lupin III: The First, Lupin said that he would see Laetitia again in 5 years. That movie came out in 2019... so I better be seeing a Lupin III: The Second coming out in 2024.

[ocean-returns]

Basic Visual Analysis! Because I can. You could probably glean what I’m about to say just by looking at the above image, but if you want to read some words, here they are:

Lupin stands at the center, staring down the audience. [He's the star.] The Fiat [“Home”] is just behind, underpinning the character lineup. The placement of Lupin and the Fiat together at the center indicates a system of organization where characters closer to the core occupy an overall more dominant position in the show’s hierarchy than characters at the periphery. (This may sound obvious, but it’s actually not always the case. Contrast against the second group shot in the film, where there's no Fiat, OR against the end of the Part IV OP where the Fiat is at the left.)

Jigen and Goemon occupy the first tier, immediately flanking Lupin. Both of their bodies are angled slightly outwards. [Equivalence. Balance.] Jigen is at the viewer’s right [1st] and Goemon is at the viewer's left [2nd]. (← Remember it’s a Japanese film. Right to left.) Jigen and Goemon each share half their pose with Lupin. [Visual echo. Mutual Influence.] The repetition of Jigen’s pose is more exact. [Again, he's 1st.]

The center of the Fiat [“Home”] is offset from the center of the shot [Lupin]. The car’s apparent midline instead falls between Lupin and Jigen. [Compromise. Interdependence.] The front of the Fiat is angled towards Jigen. He leans back against its hood, slouching out of the lineup and minimizing himself. His position eclipses the driver’s side windshield. [Jigen is the driver. It may be Lupin’s show and Lupin’s car, but if the Fiat is “home”, then it’s really Jigen who decides where home is.]

Fujiko and Zenigata stand in mirrored poses at the periphery. Fujiko’s arm is positioned to match Zenigata’s coat collar. [They’re more similar than they might appear.] Both of them are angled far enough outward that their backs are turned to Lupin. [They’re his enemy-friends.] Despite the position of his feet/body, Zenigata turns his face to meet the viewer head-on. Meanwhile, Fujiko’s face remains in profile. [Honesty vs Deception.] Fujiko is positioned at the left with Goemon. They overlap. [Connection.] This leaves Zenigata at the right, next to the negative space Jigen has left behind. [Zenigata unmistakably occupies the lowest rung of the hierarchy, the first to be excluded from the in-group.]

This shot appears on screen for three seconds, during which you can grasp all this information intuitively. A picture is worth a thousand words, baby.

[smol-and-passionate]

I finally watched Lupin III: The First. It was so cute! And dunking on Nazis is always a bonus!

[kucka-g]

Jigen's babygirl eyes, the first concept art edition

[underwatersurfboard]

if i had a nickel for each time lupin & friends teamed up with zenigata and a random damsel-type woman to take down an absurdly bad group of literal cartoon villains, i would have three nickels and i have only seen three lupin iii movies.

[maid-of-the-golden-deer]

lupin iii: the first looks better than any american produced 3d animated film bc its actually animated and not just mo-capped to hell and back (in fact not at all) or striving to look realistic (and in doing so, looks realistic and organic to the world it has created).

godzilla in godzilla minus one is so effective and look so good despite the budget/limitations because the director is actually someone involved with, and good at, directing animation (the same director for the film mentioned above) , who understands how to make that look good

putting aside the (valuable and not untrue) critiques of the film industry, especially in japan, its almost like things will be good if you actually put the right people on the job who understand what the fuck theyre doing and what theyre working with