What is 'Jizaiten', a moving material collection that realizes 'I wish there was a document from this angle'?



Kotobukiya , a manufacturer of figurines and hobbies, has announced a service called 'Jizaiten,' which is a service that allows users to pause videos of real people and rotate them 360 degrees to get a realistic look at their body structure and the creases in their clothes. The early access version of Jizaiten is scheduled to be released in early 2025, and the details of the service can be viewed on the official page, where demo reviews by famous illustrators are also available.

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Jizaiten was created as part of Kotobukiya's 'ARTIST SUPPORT ITEM' project, which produces items for creators. ARTIST SUPPORT ITEM mainly releases elaborate hand models as drawing reference materials.

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Jizaiten, which ARTIST SUPPORT ITEM plans to release in early 2025, allows users to watch special video materials as reference material when creating illustrations or manga. With Jizaiten, users can refer to videos of real people, allowing them to see realistic center of gravity and movements, scale comparisons, and wrinkles in clothes that follow the movements of the body. According to the official website, all materials are shot exclusively for Jizaiten, so copying and tracing are also allowed for creative materials.



Another feature of Jizaiten is that not only can you stop the image in the pose you want to use as reference, but you can also rotate the image while still in that pose to view it from a 360-degree angle, or even zoom in on the image to get a closer look.



You can see the demo movie below, which actually plays and stops the video and changes the angle while using it as drawing material.



As part of an advance review project in which a professional illustrator actually tried out Jizaiten, illustrator Saito Naoki shared his thoughts about Jizaiten at the end of a video he posted on YouTube called 'Whimsical Corrections.'

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In the video, Saito Naoki said that although materials obtained from reference videos and pose collections are easy to find on social media and people tend to think that they 'already have them,' 'it's impossible to find the material you want pinpointed, such as a specific pose or angle, even if you search online!' Therefore, Jizaiten, which allows you to create pinpoint material by simply stopping at the pose you want to draw and dragging and sliding the screen, is amazing in that it's 'not just a moving pose material.'



Below is an illustration drawn by Naoki Saito, who actually took a screenshot of the pose and traced it on Jizaiten.



The following illustration was carefully selected from the poses chosen.



After experiencing the advance review, Saito Naoki said, 'To be honest, I was surprised and thought, this is the kind of pose material I wanted!'



Also participating in the advance review was illustrator Shimoda Sketch , who posts books and projects introducing how to draw, commenting, 'Even when copying, there are times when you wonder, 'I wonder what the arms and other parts of the body look like?' I think Jizaiten fulfills that desire to be able to see such things.'



In addition to a free sample, Jizaiten is planned to be available as a 24-hour rental or subscription. The price of the early access version is 110 yen (tax included) for a 24-hour rental of a single fixed pose, and 220 yen (tax included) for a 24-hour rental of a single video material. The subscription service with unlimited use of materials costs 3,300 yen (tax included) per month. Both can be accessed from an internet browser, and the early access version does not support operation with a pen tablet.

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