Storyboards from “Ghost In The Shell” (1995) ⁠ Illustrated by Hiroyuki Okiura, the character designer and key animation supervisor of the film. He designed Motoko to be more mature and serious than Masamune Shirow’s original portrayal of the character in the manga. Okiura chose to depict a physically mature person to match Motoko’s mental age, instead of her youthful twenty-something appearance in the manga. | SCRT