Michael Arias

Quick Facts

Full Name	Michael Arias
Occupation	Film Director
Date Of Birth	Feb 2, 1968(1968-02-02)
Age	56
Birthplace	Los Angeles
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Aquarius

Michael Arias Biography

Michael Arias is one of the most popular and richest Film Director who was born on February 2, 1968 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Michael Arias was a Los Angeles native. Ron Arias, his father (born 1941), is a former senior journalist and correspondent for People magazine. He is also a highly respected Chicano writer. His mother, Dr. Joan Arias was a Spanish professor and an IBM Software Sales Specialist.

Arias, who had previously returned to the US in 1993, teamed up again with Randall Balsmeyer & Mimi Everett (respected New York City title designers) and co-founded Syzygy Digital Cinema. They created digital sequences for David Cronenberg’s M. Butterfly, Joel & Ethan Coen’s The Hudsucker Proxy and Robert Altman’s Pret-a-Porter. Spike Lee’s Crooklyn & Clockers and Clockers and Clockers. Their title sequence for M. Butterfly was included in the SIGGRAPH 1994 Screening Room as well as Montreal’s Cinema Du Futur festival.

In November 1997, a conversation with animation auteur Kōji Morimoto, who had shown interest in Arias’ software projects, led to Arias’ introduction to manga artist Taiyō Matsumoto. From there, what had begun as a simple software demo for Morimoto rapidly escalated to a full-fledged all-CG feature-film project, helmed by Morimoto, with computer graphics efforts directed by Arias himself.

Then, in 2000, while still under contract to Softimage, Michael accepted an invitation from Joel Silver and Lilly and Lana Wachowski (the Wachowskis) to produce Warner Bros’ Matrix-inspired animation anthology The Animatrix, a project that consumed him for over three years. On being pegged to produce The Animatrix, despite his lack of experience producing, Arias recounts, “I really had to draw on a great deal of experience that had sat unused in the background while I’d been pursuing software development. Everything I’d learned until this point: a brief career in recording studios, composing music and doing sound effects for short films in college, having my own company, working in special effects. It was a great chance to exercise some dormant (or damaged) brain cells.”

Arias was offered a job as a motion control camera operator at Imagica’s Special Effects division in 1991. He moved to Tokyo. After less than a year at Imagica Arias was invited to join the newly established Sega Enterprises Amusement Research and Development unit’s computer graphics unit. Arias was the animator and director of Sega’s ridefilm Megalopolice Tokyo City Battle. This film is featured in SIGGRAPH 1993’s Electronic Theater.

Michael Arias Net Worth

Michael Arias is one of the richest Film Director from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Michael Arias 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

American filmmaker Michael Arias was born 1968. He is primarily active in Japan.

Michael Arias started his film career at Dream Quest Images in 1987 as an intern, then as a full-time employee. His time at DQ was spent primarily as a camera assistant on motion control stages. He worked on effects-heavy Hollywood films like The Abyss, Total Recall and Fat Man and Little Boy.

In 1995, after establishing himself definitively in Tokyo, Arias was introduced by a friend to Taiyō Matsumoto’s manga Tekkonkinkreet (鉄コン筋クリート , Tekkon Kinkurīto) , a work that profoundly affected him. Tekkonkinkreet (Tekkon) is a metaphysical coming-of-age story concerning two orphans, Black (クロ , Kuro) and White (シロ , Shiro) and their struggle to survive in a pan- Asian metropolis, Treasure Town (宝町 , Takara-machi) , beset by evil. Of first discovering Tekkon, Arias recalls that a friend loaned him Tekkon to read, “And that was it. Hooked. …I cried many times reading it, also a new experience for me to be moved to tears by a manga.”

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In 2007 Arias began work on Heaven’s Door, a Japanese live-action feature film loosely based on the German hit Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door directed by Thomas Jahn and written by Jahn and actor Til Schweiger. Arias’ adaptation features J-Pop heartthrob Tomoya Nagase and ingenue Mayuko Fukuda as unlikely comrades who flee the hospital where they first meet, and embark on a road-trip to reach the ocean and watch the sun set there in the short time they have left.

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In the final analysis, Tekkonkinkreet remains a milestone in Japanese animation. It was awarded Japan’s prestigious Ōfuji Noburō Award at home, and continued on to compete for two awards at the 57th Berlin International Film Festival and later win the 2008 Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year. The Guardian listed Tekkonkinkreet third in its roundup of the ten most underrated movies of the decade.