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Illustrator Unearths Top-Notch Flash Animation From 2003

Illustrator and manga artist Zen Yasumori surfaced on Twitter in March and has used his account to post works that have long laid dormant on his HD drive. While many of these are fan art and webcomics, a Flash animation from around 2003 has gained particular attention.

The characters shown are from Water Engine, a manga Yasumori drew for the adult magazine Comic Reishiki ("Comic Zero"). While the animation was originally done to adorn the top of Yasumori's website, it proved to be too much for processing power of contemporary computers. The video used so much data, the quality deteriorated as Yasumori tried to adjust it. He gave up hope of posting it.

It gets worse: Yasumori hoped to at least use the video to advertise the Water Engine comic books, but Comic Reishiki folded shortly thereafter. Water Engine was never finished nor published in compiled volumes. Although the animation had taken two weeks to make, it languished on an HD drive until Yasumori realized modern computers would be able to handle it.

A work Yasumori drew in his freshman year

A work from around when Yasumori graduated. "This wasn't finished, but it was on my HDD, so I thought it would be perfect to finish around graduation season."

For more of Yasumori's work, see his Twitter feed. (Note: Some of it is NSFW.)

Source: Kai-You; Images from Zen Yasumori Twitter