Rambling about Kezzardrix

 

I saw Kezzardrix was credited on Shingo Natsume's SpyFam opening-- under the weird ass credit of "Credits Programming" from the name alone it's easy to tell it's got something to do with how the credits were presented.. But it's hard to tell considering the version on YT takes them out! Managed to get rip with the credits anyway and they're about as weird as I expected them to be. Neat stuff, but she's done way cooler stuff with Natsume in the past.

Her first collab with Natsume was on Sonny Boy with the credit of "Visual Programmer" can't provide a 100% accurate summary on the meaning of it, but I would have to guess using programming to generate CG models and unique effects that'd be hard to execute through normal means.

Sonny Boy is already a one-of-a-kind show filled with one-of-a-kind imagery, and Kezzadrix's contributions drive that home even further. Generally the show has a flat look: Hisashi Eguchi's minimalist original designs, Mari Fujino's gorgeous painted backgrounds, and and moments where characters are talking on a single-toned BG, a very flat and analog look. Kezzadrix's work is the exact opposite of that! She expands upon the show's already established visual vocabulary and analog-feeling look to create the most mindbending imagery and in an already visually-rich show. Again, a real one of a kind.

Her most ambitious and iconic contribution is in the finale, the scene where Nagara and Mizhuo are running back home. Great character animation of course, but the real highlight for me is the incomprehensible beauty of Kezzadrix's effects. "Nagara and Mizuho trying to get back home" is a radically simplified version of what actually happens in the episode, hell even to this day I'm not entirely sure of the logic myself, but managing to take such an ambiguous and indescribable concept of seeing two characters running on the edge of reality itself-- and actually manage to accurately portray a version of that concept on-screen is just amazing. 

Natsume then brought her along for Tatami Time Machine Blues, still under the "Visual Programmer" credit. Once again she's tasked with trying to visualize ambiguous concepts, like time travel, and captures it in a similar fashion to her Sonny Boy work, still mindbending and one-of-a-kind like always.

Shingo Natsume's currently working on Ghost, his next and first movie project! Judging from the Key Visual I'm expecting something in the vein of Sonny Boy, obviously wouldn't want it to be a direct retread though! I'm sure Natsume's got a ton of out of the box concepts he's just dying to get out there, and I'm sure Kezzadrix-- along with his usual crew-- will be there to visualize them without missing a beat.