Hunting the Elusive

Fujitsubo Machine is, for all intents and purposes, and as far as I know, an Itou Noizi doujin circle. I had inklings of another illustrator involved in this circle, but suffice to say, it’s Itou Noizi mostly. I’m not actually sure how many pies Itou Noizi has her fingers in, but usually the stuff coming out of Fujitsubo Machine during Comiket is pretty good, and Comiket 77’s 2010 F’s Works Calendar is no exception, even if it’s fairly short/small. At full A4 size, this 7 pager (6 pages if you exclude the atogatari) calendar comes in a translucent file (which incidentally is hard to open and close), and utilises a different concept to most other calendars. [Release][PNG]

Instead of having the calendar text printed on the images, 2010 F’s Works Calendar just consists of six A4 size cards of straight illustration.

The first illustration is, from what I know, Lightning from Final Fantasy XIII.

And then we have Ranka from Macross F. One of the best things about this calendar is that it’s all art I haven’t seen before. Think of it as a different angle to Itou Noizi, whose art is plastered everywhere. Creating fan art for anime series and games puts her back in the doujin side of things somewhat.

And Sheryl, also from Macross F. It’s definitely got a different feel when you have Sheryl (you know how her character is) drawn in the Itou Noizi style.

Had some difficulties finding out what this character is, and the handwriting on the explanatory note didn’t help. My digging leads me to think this is possibly Irabu-sensei’s nurse, called Mayumi, from Trapeze. Talk about random.

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This one is an original character.

As is this.

The idea behind these cards is that in the set there are four transparent plastic pieces with the calendar information on them. You then overlay them onto the pictures to get the illustrated calendar look.

I’ve scanned them in in case you want to use layers and transparency to overlay the stuff onto the pictures. I don’t see the point of doing it though.