Assassin's Creed Tokyo Art Folders *Update* Arrived & Pictured!

SwiftDeath · #1 11-11-2012, 10:04 PM

Anyone know anything about these AC Prints/cards?

Found Here: http://page2.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/b127479556

I made a post about them in the rare found stuff thread but no one's really replied and I'm kinda impatient

As I said in the other post, they are apparently small prints/cards of the larger exhibition pieces at the 2nd Toyko AC art exhibit

They are apparently AC art done by various famous Japanese artists from anime artists to famous VG artists. One from Capcom and one from Namco Bandai to name a few.

Found info on the art exhibit here:

http://kotaku.com/5874231/assassins-...ists/gallery/1

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/inte...panese-artists

So I do understand where they're from but I'm curious if anyone understands what they are exactly.

Update: Received the folders yesterday

They are far more awesome than I could have imagined

Here are high resolution scans of the art on the folders:

1. By Tatsuya Yoshikawa

2. By Mahiro Maeda

3. By Yusuke Hashimoto

4. By Daigo Okumura

5. By Takashi Okazaki

6. By Koji Morimoto

7. By Seilchiro Hosokawa / Cyberconnect2 co. ???

8. By Tsutomu Nihei

9, 10, and 11 are all Ubisoft concept arts (11 for example is also on back of FS AC Revelations steelbook)

Other Pictures

Scan of Back Cover (Exactly the same on all folders)

Picture of Back Cover

Picture of Side view

Picture of Artist Name, Ubisoft Info (On all 8 Original Japanese Works, artist names are different of course)

Picture of Ubisoft info on concept arts

Video showing all the folders
For those curious if the audio is broken, it's not I just hate the sound of my recorded voice

Link: http://youtu.be/sAYT4raF8-I

Tried embedding the youtube video but it's just a white box, any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

I absolutely love these folders

LowlyAssassin · #2 11-11-2012, 10:21 PM

My guess
Ask the person you got them from they are most likely to know the most or ask where they got them from and try and chase them down and ask them

Ask the website you got the information from already
Ask UBisoft
Ask the curator of the art exhibit
You have a lot of information already
What more are you expecting
You know there origin and source

SwiftDeath · #3 11-11-2012, 10:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LowlyAssassin

My guess
Ask the person you got them from they are most likely to know the most or ask where they got them from and try and chase them down and ask them

Ask the website you got the information from already
Ask UBisoft
Ask the curator of the art exhibit
You have a lot of information already
What more are you expecting
You know there origin and source

Ugh...Trying to talk to japanese sellers on Yahoo.jp auctions isn't worth it.

I might try to email ubisoft japan or that curator if I can find them.

You're right I do know quite a bit about them already, at least their origin.

I just wondered if anyone here knew anything about art exhibits in general and that maybe it's common practice to give away little cards/prints of the pieces?

LowlyAssassin · #4 11-11-2012, 10:34 PM

My opinion of art exhibits is that they have a souvenir section that sells small post cards of most prints in a exhibition
And also some times exhibitions have an exhibition booklet displaying information with a small PIC of each piece per page
And sometimes an exhibition pack with small prints framed or in a small display pack

SwiftDeath · #5 11-11-2012, 10:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LowlyAssassin

My opinion of art exhibits is that they have a souvenir section that sells small post cards of most prints in a exhibition
And also some times exhibitions have an exhibition booklet displaying information with a small PIC of each piece per page
And sometimes an exhibition pack with small prints framed or in a small display pack

Yes I think it's probably something along these lines as well.

Not exactly rare LOL

But I really do like the looks of 2 or 3 of them and couldn't pass it up

MortalMonday · #6 11-11-2012, 11:27 PM

I wouldn't really call them art cards. They look like folders to me. See those half-circle cutouts on the right-hand side; those cutouts are so that you can easily access/pull-out the papers that you store in them. I've seen similar promo folders before; that's how I know they're folders.

SwiftDeath · #7 11-11-2012, 11:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MortalMonday

I wouldn't really call them art cards. They look like folders to me. See those half-circle cutouts on the right-hand side; those cutouts are so that you can easily access/pull-out the papers that you store in them. I've seen similar promo folders before; that's how I know they're folders.

Hmmm....

Does that make them better or worse? At least in your opinion?

What would they be used to store?

MortalMonday · #8 11-12-2012, 12:21 AM

I don't really think they're better or worse. I dont really know anything about those AC folders though; i hadn't seen them before. I'm positive they're folders though.

They make similar promo folders for Metal Gear games. I guess they're used to store papers, booklets, or leaflets. They're very much a quirky Japanese thing; they're not something you usually see anywhere else.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/METAL-GEAR-S...p2047675.l2557

SwiftDeath · #9 11-24-2012, 05:59 PM

*First Post Updated as well*

Update: Received the folders yesterday

They are far more awesome than I could have imagined

Here are high resolution scans of the art on the folders:

1. By Tatsuya Yoshikawa

2. By Mahiro Maeda

3. By Yusuke Hashimoto

4. By Daigo Okumura

5. By Takashi Okazaki

6. By Koji Morimoto

7. By Seilchiro Hosokawa / Cyberconnect2 co. ???

8. By Tsutomu Nihei

Click on the image above (#8) and zoom in on the top of the chapel in the middle

Is it a bird, Is it a plane, Is it superman, no it's far, far more awesome....

9, 10, and 11 are all Ubisoft concept arts (11 for example is also on back of FS AC Revelations steelbook)

Other Pictures

Scan of Back Cover (Exactly the same on all folders)

Picture of Back Cover

Picture of Side view

Picture of Artist Name, Ubisoft Info (On all 8 Original Japanese Works, artist names are different of course)

Picture of Ubisoft info on concept arts

Video showing all the folders
Be warned, video was shot with iphone in portrait so it's a bit of a strange shape.
For those curious if the audio is broken, it's not I just hate the sound of my recorded voice.

Link: http://youtu.be/sAYT4raF8-I

Tried embedding the youtube video but it's just a white box, any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Btw if it wasn't completely obvious, I absolutely love these folders

geralds · #10 11-24-2012, 06:22 PM

I can shead some light on these things. There some kind of weird art things they give away durring tokyo game show there a lot more of there outside Japanese there something special but if you lived in Japanese you would see there quit common and nothing real specially especially if you wen to tokyo game show. There is a lot of shop in akrabaha (which happens to be located in tokyo as well) that get there to there not just limited to video game stuff as well.