Jeff Buttle just completed an entire night's worth of work at the Aqua rink in Chiba, Japan for an unnamed movie: https://www.instagram.com/p/BjW5NmjnfNe/?taken-by=j_butt
https://twitter.com/J_Butt/status/1001129507024027648
The identity of the film? Enterprising Japanese fs fans are on the case: https://twitter.com/denkimouse/status/1001470254847946757
Obviously there is no official announcement and of course Jeff will say nothing until he's permitted to do so, but those are some very suggestive clues. He is kitted up like Kenji Miyamoto was for his choreographic work for the Yuri on Ice tv series (the videos of his work can be seen as a bonus on the Japanese BDs). If it is in fact for the new YOI movie it will be a treat indeed to see Sayo Yamamoto and Mitsurou Kubo transform Jeff's creations into brilliant animation on a movie budget and timeframe. A taste of what that might look like can be seen in Victor Nikiforov and Yuuri Katsuki's performances of Victor Nikiforov's FP "Stammi Vicino" in the first episode of YOI (go to 13:03 for the start of the scene): http://www.crunchyroll.com/yuri-on-ice/episode-1-easy-as-pirozhki-the-grand-prix-final-of-tears-721621 and in Yuri Plisetsky's exhibition program, "Welcome to the Madness", which the staff completed as a bonus for the final disc of the tv series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyk86I9XOE4
To the mods: I put this in the Edge because Jeff is doing skating demo and/or choreo work at a rink. Please let me know if this needs to be moved elsewhere!
https://twitter.com/J_Butt/status/1001129507024027648
The identity of the film? Enterprising Japanese fs fans are on the case: https://twitter.com/denkimouse/status/1001470254847946757
Obviously there is no official announcement and of course Jeff will say nothing until he's permitted to do so, but those are some very suggestive clues. He is kitted up like Kenji Miyamoto was for his choreographic work for the Yuri on Ice tv series (the videos of his work can be seen as a bonus on the Japanese BDs). If it is in fact for the new YOI movie it will be a treat indeed to see Sayo Yamamoto and Mitsurou Kubo transform Jeff's creations into brilliant animation on a movie budget and timeframe. A taste of what that might look like can be seen in Victor Nikiforov and Yuuri Katsuki's performances of Victor Nikiforov's FP "Stammi Vicino" in the first episode of YOI (go to 13:03 for the start of the scene): http://www.crunchyroll.com/yuri-on-ice/episode-1-easy-as-pirozhki-the-grand-prix-final-of-tears-721621 and in Yuri Plisetsky's exhibition program, "Welcome to the Madness", which the staff completed as a bonus for the final disc of the tv series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyk86I9XOE4
To the mods: I put this in the Edge because Jeff is doing skating demo and/or choreo work at a rink. Please let me know if this needs to be moved elsewhere!