About the work A man trudges through the same place again and again in a dim wasteland, as if dragging his weary body behind him. His doubles, replicated like afterimages, drift through the air, forming a huge mass that hovers over his head. On the ground, tentacles cling to him as if to hinder his steps. Before long, the man collapses to the ground and sinks into a mental realm. A visual work that depicts modern people, constantly exposed to information and living alongside complex human relationships, in an unfamiliar brilliance. The contours and boundaries of the self, shaped by self-awareness, waver, mutate, and dissolve. It portrays human beings living through this cycle. Directed and produced by the unit of Ryo Kitabatake and Takuma Sasaki, winners of Best of Stash and the Telly Award Gold. Filmed at Dimension Studio in London using the latest volumetric imaging technology, with music by Max Cooper. Max Cooper How many artists over the past decade have, like Max Cooper, reexamined and expanded the relationship between electronic music, visual art, technology, and science? Through collaborations with artists and institutions across disciplines, including the Barbican Centre, Zaha Hadid Architects, and Dolby Atmos, Cooper works with a mixed-media approach to create immersive installations, psychoacoustics, visual art, and electronic music. Max Cooper▶ maxcooper.net/ Dimension Studio Dimension Studio is a London studio that provides innovative volumetric and real-time production for creating next-generation virtual production, digital humans, and XR content. With production studios based in the UK and the US, as well as mobile environments operating around the world, it is committed to bringing the virtual entertainment of the future to life. Dimension Studio▶ dimensionstudio.co/

This is the promotional music video for the third original animation by Studio Nanahoshi. During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, we began drawing illustrations and manga of “U-Nyan,” an innocent kitten delivery worker, on Twitter in an effort to create a work that would lift viewers’ spirits and bring them comfort. Once the concept had taken shape, we created a storyboard for a short animation. To let viewers enjoy the process of the work coming together, we released it one cut at a time, then added the theme song to the completed cuts and unveiled it as a PV. Using this PV as a basis, we are currently producing a roughly six-minute main feature through crowdfunding with supporters. We aim to create an animation that can be enjoyed by both adults and children, putting our heart into portraying U-Nyan as he learns that “it may not be a big deal, but it is an important role for that person.” ＜Synopsis＞ The kitten “U-Nyan” is overjoyed to be starting his first delivery job! However, he ends up smashing the pizza to bits and trying to sneak a taste of the donuts, and things just don’t go very smoothly... The carefree, innocent U-Nyan starts to feel anxious too. The residents of the town he is delivering to can’t help worrying whether U-Nyan will make it there safely, and before they know it, they’re lending a hand and watching over his growth. This work is a heartwarming story about “the interactions between small children and the adults who watch over them.”

This is a commemorative lyric video for a new song in which some of the lyrics were rearranged for the current-member version (-ZZ ver.) of Momoiro Clover Z, which celebrated its 13th anniversary on May 17, 2021. Using live footage and photos from the past 13 years, this beloved song for both the members and the fans is brought to life in a lively stop-motion animation that follows the lyrics as the members sing, dance, and race around. We also deliberately preserved analog textures such as hand-drawn elements and the feel of paper. The video features many cutout memories of stage costumes, stage effects, and live venues. For the members’ lip-sync in the big chorus, we cut out three frames each of their mouth shapes (a-i-u-e-o-n) and replaced them in a way that makes it look as if they are singing. The four members race through the song as crayons in their respective colors. It became a video that could only have been created now, when it is difficult for large groups to gather. With respect for the 13-year journey shared by the members and all the Mononofu.

What I first felt when I listened to the song was a sense of floating in the melody, so I focused on creating visuals of fluffy things drifting freely on the wind, while abstractly depicting the “I” in the lyrics and making the animation move comfortably in sync with the melody. It really felt spot on. And when you’re simply having fun, feeling cute, liking something, or completely absorbed in it, you naturally end up smiling, don’t you? With those feelings in mind, I created this video.

Created to promote the importance of chilling out. The hectic modern world is portrayed as an endless staircase, and the story follows someone escaping that endless staircase by drinking the relaxation drink CHILL OUT. Produced entirely in full CG, it presents a dystopian world view.

Set in a school shrouded in fog, this opening depicts the main character of the film as he wavers between madness and composure. "DAIV" CASE STUDY https://www.mouse-jp.co.jp/creator/ss/daiv/case_study/monark.html

This video was filmed and 3D-tracked in the streets of Ikebukuro, with motion graphics overlaid like stickers. We created and composited the motion graphics based on the origin of the place name Ikebukuro.

WOW was responsible for the planning, direction, and production of a permanent installation to be installed in the outdoor plaza, Sunken Square, of The MixC, a massive shopping mall in Shanghai. The installation consists of 20 towers, each approximately 2.3 meters tall, with glass tiled over LED, spanning more than 10 meters in width. It was placed within the existing overflow structure in the plaza so that it would harmonize with the environment. There are two types of presentation, themed around natural phenomena and Shanghai’s nightscape, and the projected images repeatedly reflect and refract through the glass. Like a landscape of nature in constant transformation, the appearance of the work continually changes depending on the surrounding environment and the viewer’s position. Video works are often considered best when they are high-resolution and have a clearly defined beginning and end within a fixed timeline. However, this work was born from the idea that human imagination may possess infinite resolution and an infinite timeline. When you carefully observe the rippling surface of water or the bottom of a river, you seem to see reflected images of the surrounding scenery repeatedly forming and falling apart, creating a mysterious sensation as if you were seeing abstract and representational landscapes over and over again. Based on such an experience, this work expresses, through a visual interpretation, the distinctive scenery created by the properties of light—reflection and refraction.

Seiho×cero 「SHANTI」MV