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Episode 20 of _Re:Creators_ features something marvelous: real-world fanart of
Altair from Pixiv appears in the show-world as fanart of Altair on "Piclive".
For example, this screencap...

[![Re:Creators, episode 20,
~14:22](https://i.stack.imgur.com/NZPJim.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/NZPJi.jpg)

...depicts [this piece of
fanart](https://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=62962983)
uploaded to pixiv back in May by artist Mochizuki Kei (望月けい).

A few seconds prior, a number of other pieces of fanart are shown:

[![Re:Creators, episode 20,
~14:19](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ghCOkm.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ghCOk.jpg)

These, too, are actual pieces of fanart from Pixiv (e.g. [#6 by
itsia](https://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=63411723),
[#9 by
TOH](https://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=62329126),
etc).

(Note that while all the linked images are SFW, Pixiv itself contains heaps of
NSFW content.)

* * *

My question: how did these pieces of fanart come to be integrated into the
anime? Were they "planted" ahead of time (i.e. did the artists have a prior
arrangement with the producers to draw and release this art earlier in
anticipation of episode 20)? Or was this art drawn "organically", with the
artists only later being contacted about using it in the anime?


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What's the story behind the Altair fanart in episode 20?


I just found an interview with Tomoyuki Arima, a member of the art direction
team of the show on [Pixivision](https://www.pixivision.net/en/a/2534).

Relevant part:

> "--By the way, I heard some illustrations that appear on Piclive were
> actually posted on pixiv. Is it true?
>
> **Arima** : it's true. We commissioned those pictures in order to add them
> to Piclive. I don't know much about those commissions, but the original
> illustrators were allowed to post their work on pixiv, I think"



So, to answer the actual question: The pictures weren't planted and the they
didn't contact the owners of existing artworks either. They simply asked a
bunch of pixiv artists to create some artwork for them which they could put in
the anime to give Piclive a more realistic Pixiv feeling, and the artists were
allowed to upload these onto their own Pixiv.


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