Innocent grey is indeed a very special game club, in the industry, there are many clubs specializing in genre works, involved in a wide range of and good reputation, of course, more are looking at the wind and sniping at the market "shrewd". As far as IG Society knows, it has gained a foothold in niche themes at the beginning of its founding, but at the time when the style of the club is basically fixed, it has turned to another company that is far away and seems to be more niche and quickly settled down. Author of this article: Half-Eyed Blue Glass @ Io Anime
I have to say that in this process, the founder and chief painter of Sugi Mizuhime is indispensable. To some extent, it can even be said that Shancai single-handedly supported half of the IG, attracting a group of die-hard fans with its very core infectious painting style, so that the club has the capital to take risks and transform.
If you are not a genre enthusiast or a senior gal player, I am afraid that I will not know the name of Sugi Mizuhime, on the one hand, because his semi-realistic painting style is not mainstream, although extremely beautiful, but the proportion is biased towards real people, and the color matching is not a multicolored dyeing tank, but a color with high contrast and low saturation and high grayscale. Such a style of painting for the gal industry, just like the difference between A-RISE and the muse, although there is a core audience, but ultimately inferior to the public aesthetic, you know, the ACG community, or can be said to be the entire Japanese aesthetic, than "beauty" or more inclined to the cute category.
Another reason is the personal personality of Shancai. Just like the aura of a high-cold sister revealed in the name of Sugi Mizuhime, as a painter, Sugi is also low-key to the point of even being high,000, never participating in fan activities, not submitting articles on P stations, and rarely accepting interviews.
In the few interview occasions, he once said that "painting is only work", perhaps in his mind painting is not a matter of interest, but only a means of making a living, which can not help but make a living, in the non-enthusiastic routine of painting can still have such a degree, if infused with love to create, what kind of landscape will it be? In this way, Chiyomaru Shikura, who is also the founder president and is in charge of a certain part of the game production, is much more cute.
Sugi Mizuhime's painting style has changed extremely obviously in different periods, and can be roughly divided into the Nine-Headed Dragon Period, the IG to the Shell Girl Period, and the Shell Girl to the present. Specifically, you can take the love prison month madness, the virtual girl, and the flowers spring as important time nodes.
The Cedar cuisine of the Nine-Headed Dragon period did not last long, and almost did not form its own style, which was not much different from the mainstream meng style of painting at that time. However, this period is extremely important for the growth and transformation of Sugi after that, because in the Nine-Headed Dragon, Sugi was first exposed to the more important human settings, original paintings, etc., and was greatly influenced by the predecessor Kai Tomohisa, and this influence was still obvious until the shell girl could still find obvious traces. Author of this article: Half-Eyed Blue Glass @ Io Anime
(This talented CG, composition and face painting method has begun to see the beginning, and the hatsune in love is still very similar)
The first metamorphosis occurred during the Lunar Fever. At this time, Sugi had just established IG, and the first work after the self-reliance portal was a suspenseful reasoning work set in the Showa period. This is a challenge for Sugi, who is accustomed to painting in the style of cute painting before, and this also brings him the opportunity for change. The painting style of love prison is obviously more realistic in proportion, the head is shrunk, the eyes are stretched to a certain extent, flattened, and the color matching is already in the category of "dark system", mostly using black, blue, dark gray, and dark green, and the red grayscale necessary for the performance of bloody scenes, or the character costumes are also higher, the overall creation of a depressed haze atmosphere, but because of the more black and white contrast, it will not feel dirty because of the thick shadows.
(These two can clearly see the change, not only the difference between Lori's royal sister, Hatsune is still generally a cute painting method, and the history of winter has become more realistic and cold)
(The shadows are very thick, and mostly use solid colors, some of the shadows are almost pure black, and the sense of era is very depressing)
The second metamorphosis occurred in the shell woman period, at this time the sugi can be said to have basically established a personal style, the role of the cute elements of the pen gradually decreased, becoming more slender and realistic, full of beauty and spirituality, and there was a slight hint of sadness in the beauty, which was reflected in the role of The Dead Wood Dongzi to the extreme. Author of this article: Half-Eyed Blue Glass @ Io Anime
(The standing painting of the daily emotional line part is relatively bright, but the sense of heaviness is still very strong, it can be seen that this period is still not completely free from the influence of the cute painting style, and Dongzi's spirituality and maturity reveal a little cuteness that is consistent with the age)
The third metamorphosis turned to the virtual woman. Even without mentioning the script, there is a lot of controversy in the style of painting, it can be seen that the characters of this period feel more pale, the grayscale is everywhere, the shadows are light and excessively softer, there is a slight watercolor style, and the lines have become more mature, the face is more slender, the eye position is higher, the eyes are flatter, the cuteness is further reduced, and the compelling aura has reached the critical level, and then partially transformed into a lonely and cold temperament.
(The former is a shell woman, the latter is a virtual woman, it can be seen that the change is significant, the virtual woman's Dongzi is honestly a little mature beyond age)
Such a change is still very much in line with the style of the virtual woman, the sense of darkness and depression is reduced, and a hint of loneliness is revealed, which is in line with the plot of Lingren's lonely search for Dongzi, but the trend of this change has worried many die-hard fans, because there are two words to summarize this change - fresh, and the two words "fresh", no matter how incompatible with the previous works, the huge transformation of the IG Society, at this time has already had a clue.
It should be mentioned that Sugi's paintings are not colored by themselves, or not entirely by themselves, compared to galgame's CG artists, more like the animation company's painting supervisors, original artists, from here it can also be seen that he really regards painting as just a job. And his line manuscripts also do not use devices such as pen screens, but rather traditional pencil manuscripts, although he is not very old.
The coloring before the Seven Sacrifices was the responsibility of the coffee nobles, and the painter's popularity was even higher, the same aesthetic painting style, the more cute picture was more gentle, and he was good at using soft light. These personal characteristics also influenced to a certain extent the IG work CG he was responsible for, incorporating a soft warmth into the dark depression. Coffee aristocrat quit IG in 2014 because her daughter was in kindergarten and no longer engaged in 18 forbidden activities... (Teacher, this is what is wrong with you, isn't it very emotional for your daughter to look at her father's paintings when she grows up?) Look at the door next door to the dance to Mrs. Wat, having a baby or continuing to serve small butter... ）
(Coffee aristocrats' own illustrations, soft and soft light effects are beautiful, the previous article Dongzi's daily CG can obviously see this feature)
After this, IG's coloring responsibility was replaced by とょ, this personnel change brought about a very obvious change in painting style, the shadow became lighter and the transition was softer, the texture of the vertical painting decreased more flat, the watercolor style was very obvious, and the proportion of blue and green in the overall color grading increased, creating a mist-like sense of transparency, and the overall fresh girlish style was revealed.
(Color saturation is higher and grayscale is lower, watercolor wind is beautiful and transparent, and hair color is no longer limited to pure black)
If IG continues to do the dark hunting works of the Prison Shell Women series in this period, then it is debatable whether such a style is appropriate, but this change in style is precisely the period of IG transformation - the all-age lily suspense flwoers series turned out. In this way, all debatable changes become perfect and complete. Those delicate thoughts, the light and elegant lily of the academy department, all fit in with the new painting style, and some of the Showa legacy and cold darkness left over from the Prison Love series are also not incompatible with the suspense elements of reasoning.
(In addition to the color scheme, the facial line is also more detailed, with a little girl comic style)
We know that paintings in the ACG category are rarely appreciated as individuals, but more as elements of different forms of expression such as comics, animation, games, and light novels, which determines that a painting style cannot be judged by a simple perception, but also considers the fit with the subject. In fact, purely from the perspective of painting style, Qingli herself is more fond of shell women, but when integrated into the flowers series, this style is undoubtedly perfect, and even makes people feel that Sugi Mizuhime's paintings may exist for Shimizu Lily.
The journey of the IG Society has not stopped, and Sugi Mizuhime is far from reaching his peak. The upcoming winter chapter of flowers may not change much, but the end of the scheduled Shell Girl series is not known - the Girl of Heaven will become another turning point, after all, from the three years of operation of Shimizu Lily's aesthetic painting style back to that dark and dark and mysterious and poignant world, the changes during this period are expected.
(The Maiden of Heaven, the glass bird that broke out of its shell, has found its own sky?) ）
Text: Half Eyes Green Glass @ Io Anime