Osaka by Tosiphus
Solusek Ro by Twiglightdragon
Solusek Ro avatar art, screenshot study
though I cropped this weirdly lol
EverQuest 2 dungeon screenshot studies
elephant seal study
poodles
reference photos taken by Kerri-Ann Afford and Leah McDaniel
This is my favorite genre of Touhou gifs. Does anybody know where these are from?
They’re mockups for a hypothetical fanime that never actually came to fruition (and probably never will because these gifs are from the early 2000′s). I remember finding the original blog they were on but it might have been deleted because I can’t find it anymore.
However I can upload the rest of what I found there.
Might as well share what I know as well. What @plastic-dragon already said is likely correct although to be more specific, it could have been a PV for a song instead of a fanime like Memories of Phantasm.
The animations were based on the events of official works and the work off of ZUN’s and Aki Eda’s character designs. They were likely all made prior to the release of UFO, only covering the events of EoSD up to SA.
You’re probably wondering what the heck is Nazrin doing here then. Well, that’s cause that gif is actually unrelated. That animation was made in 2014 by an artist that I’m 80% positive is unrelated to the other material. You can find their pixiv here:
Now, I don’t have a source for any of the other gifs since there isn’t one. I don’t think anyone knows where they are from. Many (if not all) of these gifs have been uploaded onto danbooru back in 2009, but even then no one knew the source. All of these gifs have been in the “Deleted” category as they havent been approved by the mods on review (possibly due to the total lack of source).
Some of the gifs come from ImageShack, but the account that uploaded those gifs is gone since the account wasn’t maintained after ImageShack became a subscription service in 2014.
It’s pretty clear that a source would be impossible to find…..at least on the internet that is.
My research has led to the current theory there was never an online source to begin with. These gifs were probably ripped from a CD that was distributed at either Comiket or Reitaisai by some unknown doujin circle doing animations.
The only suspect I have right now is the long since defunct doujin circle by the name of 東方活動写真館 (Touhou Kinema Kan) They produced some pretty insane animations in a small variety of different styles when they were around. Unfortunately, their website is gone and I don’t have the time to track down all artists involved in Kinema Kan.
however, I do know they distributed several CDs of their works and one of those CDs may very well be the source of all these gifs.
That’s all I know though.
Sometimes I’m like “what the hell am I doing with these itabags and Touhous and stuff I’m middle-aged* now c'mon”
But then I’m also like “nah it’s fine”
*well, maybe middle-aged is pushing it, but the average age of someone in my family to die is 41 let’s see if I can beat these odds
Happy 9/9