\u00a0Yeah, very few and sort of grungy pictures for this one. Reason: it’s printed on a glossy paper that, for some reason, is very resistant to being photographed well; and, as you know, I’m vehemently against unbiding stuff. Weird, because the cover – and the cover only – is on matte paper… well, one more reason to actually check out the provided links, isn’t it?<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/div>\nFrame <\/i>is a short, full color, square format 2018 collection of works by illustrator \/ animatory syo5<\/a>. Apparently, they’re sort of a big deal, working mostly as a freelance artist for book covers, and as a director \/animator for music videos. This last bit is actually unsurprising, as the illustrations collected in Frame <\/i>have a cinematic quality, in the literal sense: we are often presented with a sequence of images, as if we were looking at still frames of an animation. Colors are rather somber in general, and the grain has a sort of faded quality, as if looking through a hazy glass — a visual style you can see in their video works as well, see for example Minami’s Ame Wo Matsu<\/a>, <\/i>for which Syo5 directed and animated.\u00a0<\/p>\n The d\u014djinshi is super short, 16 pages total, so one could argue there isn’t much meat to it, considering that the collection lacks any sort of textual contextualization, from which I assume it to be a crop of personal works or practice pieces. Not the kind of stuff I usually enjoy – it’s a bit too mainstream and polished for my taste – but, judging from their Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a> following, I’d definitely in the minority. You might enjoy it!\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n