The New York Times described her as having the "sinewy efficiency" of Aliens franchise character Ellen Ripley and visual appeal of Julia Roberts' portrayal of Erin Brockovich. Her appearance has been received positively by critics, with praise for the finer details of the character model such as the rendering of her hair. On the Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within DVD, a bikini model photo shoot of Aki Ross is also included as one of the special features.Įntertainment Weekly named Aki an " It Girl", stating that "Calling this action heroine a cartoon would be like calling a Rembrandt a doodle." She was voted to be one of the sexiest women ever by Maxim and its readers, ranking 87th out of 100 and became the first fictional woman to ever make the list, additionally appearing on the issue's cover. Maxim 's featuring of Aki in their "Hot 100" list resulted in increased media attention towards the characterĪction figures of Aki Ross have been produced by Palisades. and the company ceased use of the character, much to studio president Jun Aida's lament. Shortly afterwards, Square Pictures was closed and absorbed into Square Co. The short film, appearing amongst the DVD's bonus content and featuring her with a slightly modified design, shows her acrobatically dueling a robot from the Matrix setting. In 2002 she appeared in a demonstration video that Square Pictures made to present to the Wachowski Brothers before developing Final Flight of the Osiris for The Animatrix. Gray, Ross's love interest and the leader of the Deep Eyes, sacrifices himself as a medium needed to physically transmit the completed spirit wavelength into the alien Gaia. Aki is charged with finding the eight spirits it is theorized that when joined, the eight spirits will create a wavelength that negates the Phantoms. Ross allied herself with the "Deep Eyes Squad," a specialist troop of soldiers who are determined to eradicate the Phantoms. The Phantoms cause mass casualties, and drivie the remnants of humanity into "barrier cities". The Phantoms first appeared after a meteor, later revealed to be part of their home world, crash lands on Earth. Appearances įirst appearing in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, Aki Ross is a scientist in the fictional post-apocalyptic mid-21st century who has been infected by a race of aliens called Phantoms. After completion of the film, Ming-Na noted that she would be willing to continue voicing if she were asked to. She added that it was difficult to work without the presence and spontaneity of real actors however, she gradually accustomed herself to this feeling, and noted that the voice-acting work did not take much time, as she would just go into the studio "once or twice a month for about four months" with no need for make-up and costuming sessions, continuing to play in the television series ER during the works on the film. Ming-Na found the role via her publicist and said she felt like she "has given birth with voice to a character" and that it was a little "eerie". During her development, he altered the model to appear more intelligent looking, shortening the hair and removing makeup from what he perceived as a " supermodel" looking character in favor of an appearance that would "convince people that she's a scientist." In an interview, Sato described actively trying to make her appear as realistic as possible, making her similar to himself in many ways that he could in terms of animation including elements of his personality through facial expressions, though noted "she's a lot cuter than me". Īki's appearance was conceived by lead animator of the project, Roy Sato, who created several conceptual designs for Sakaguchi to consider and then used the selected design as a guide for her character model. Sakaguchi intended to have Aki be Square Picture's "main star", noting intentions to use her in later games and films by Square and the flexibility of being able to modify aspects of her such as her age for said appearances. The model designed for Aki was designed to be as realistically human as possible, with Sakaguchi commenting in an interview "I think it's OK to look at Aki and be convinced that she's a human." Each of her 60,000 hairs was separately and fully animated and rendered, at a render farm consisting of 960 Pentium III-933 MHz workstations that took 1.5 hours to render each frame, with the model estimated to be made up of around 400,000 polygons. Īki Ross is a fictional character created by Hironobu Sakaguchi for Square Pictures under Square, for the purpose of use in their debut film The Spirits Within. Ming-Na, Aki's voice actress, was selected by Sakaguchi based on his decision that she fit Aki's personality.
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