redjuice
Japan Expo is delighted to announce the first guest of the 17th Impact, in partnership with @Anime: redjuice! Working in the web sector and then manga, video games and animation, with an ever-growing number of fans, he has designed the characters of Project Itoh 3 movies. Don’t miss this talented artist at the festival!
Biography
redjuice is an illustrator and designer from Kochi prefecture.
His online collaboration with the groups supercell and livetune has made him reach the top of hype illustrators, offering new opportunities to him in manga and press illustration, but also video games and animation as a chara-designer.
In 2015, he’s been in charge of the chara-design of the Project Itoh trilogy: Genocidal Organ, Harmony, and The Empire of Corpses. Though the 3 novels are adapted by different studios, redjuice is the link between them through the graphic style he gives to the characters.
Project Itoh
Keikaku Itoh (keikaku meaning project in Japanese) is a writer born in Tokyo in 1974. In 2007, he made his debut with the novel Genocidal Organ which was rewarded with the first prize of Best SF from SF magazine. His second novel, Harmony, won both the Seiun prize and Japan SF. The English version won a special prize from the Philip K. Dick prize. After a long fight against cancer, Project Itoh died at age 34.
Only the first 30 pages of his latest novel, The Empire of Corpses, had been written when he passed but his work was taken over by Toh EnJoe.
Project Itoh is the adaptation of this 3 novels as animation films. Recently, The Empire of Corpses and Harmony have been selected for the Festival International du Film Fantastique de Gérardmer.
Program
Don’t miss redjuice’s panels and masterclass for a better understanding of today’s challenges for illustration, and to know more about this exceptional artist’s methods. And go visit the exhibit How to make an anime Episode 1: STUDIO4°C to know all about the creation of Harmony!
redjuice's program at Japan Expo:
- Thursday, July 7 from 11.15 am to 12.15 pm: signing at @anime's booth
- Thursday, July 7 from 2.15 to 3.45 pm: masterclass
- Friday, July 8 from 1.00 to 3.00 pm: Harmony screening in the video room
- Friday, July 8 from 2.00 to 3.00 pm: signing at @anime's booth
- Friday, July 8 from 4.45 to 5.30 pm: conference about redjuice’s role in the making of the movie Harmony on the Yuzu stage
- Sunday, July 10 from 1.15 to 2.30 pm: conference about his career as an illustrator and live drawing
- And several signings for which redjuice has made an exclusive illustration especially for his French fans
The Empire of Corpses and Harmony DVD/Blu-ray collector boxes will be released at Japan Expo at @Anime‘s booth!