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"Japanese professionals, on the other hand, do not usually share their work via familiar online environments, or do not have contact information to give them jobs. ""First of all, we couldn't find an illustrator in Estonia or even in Europe who had mastered both the anime style and portrait drawing." Of the more than 30 athletes taking part under the Estonian blue-black-white in Tokyo, MONQ honed in on epee foursome Erika Kirpu, Julia Beljajeva, Katrina Lehis and Kristina Kuusk, cyclist Tanel Kangert, tennis star Anett Kontaveit, wrestler Epp Mäe, decathlete Maicel Uibo, and quadruple sculls team Kaspar Taimsoo, Tõnu Endrekson, Allar Raja and Jüri-Mikk Udam, ahead of the games, which open on July 23, following a year's postponement due to the pandemic.ĮOK artistic director Mauno Meesit said that the characteristics of Japanese anime preclude both the immediately recognizable likeness of an individual in general, and the key facial characteristics of an Estonian in particular, adding that initially he was not sure if Estonian athletes could be effectively depicted in the anime style whatsoever.įinding an artist up to the task was also hard, he said. I researched a lot of the background of the areas, and watched videos and photos to get an idea of how to depict certain details correctly," MONQ went on, adding that the work had piqued their interest in a potential visit to Tallinn and Estonia some day. "While I'm interested in sports, some events were unfamiliar to me. "It is true that it was quite difficult to achieve the right dynamic movement of the athletes in the drawings," MONQ, who says they have been drawing anime since childhood, went on. MONQ said that they: "Very rarely get collaboration offers from abroad, and I felt that participating in this campaign as an artist will give me some great experience." Japanese artist MONQ was tasked with providing the official cartoons, with the blessing of the Estonian Olympic Committee (EOK), ERR's Menu portal reports.