Works by nim up to now.

Concept film for OBJECT INDEX, a new brand for overseas markets from KAKIMORI, the long-established stationery maker headquartered in Kuramae, Tokyo. The film is quietly and precisely composed so that the atmosphere conveyed by the products—their functions made visible in form, their noise-free coloring that blends into any lifestyle, and the particular kind of madness hidden within Japanese craftsmanship—becomes the very character of the visuals.

The first theatrical feature animation project by animation creator Gensho Yasuda, who has amassed over 5.8 million total followers across social media platforms including YouTube and TikTok, is finally underway! Yasuda, who has earned high acclaim both in Japan and overseas for his independently produced 3D short animations, music videos, and corporate promotional animations, is bringing this film to life as a completely original work, rendered entirely in full 3DCG and boasting “300% pure Gensho Yasuda.” A crowdfunding campaign held during production achieved more than 230% of its goal, proving just how overwhelmingly popular and highly anticipated it is. The story is set in a future just a little way ahead of the present. Mizutame Akira, a scientific prodigy who succeeded in developing and commercializing Salt, a robot that supports people’s daily lives, has been struggling as every new invention he attempts ends in failure. Then, after hearing from a friend that having a girlfriend can “power you up,” he literally and scientifically creates an artificial human girlfriend named “No. 0.” Torn between programmed emotions and feelings that continue to grow, No. 0 wavers in the space between the two. Will what blossoms between her and Akira, who is awkward when it comes to connecting with others, be “love,” or something else...? Bringing these fascinating characters to life are Atsumi Tanezaki, whose chameleon-like acting shines in roles such as Anya in SPY×FAMILY and Frieren in Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, as No. 0, and Shun Horie, who has been steadily cast as a lead in numerous popular works, including his role as Kyotaro Ichikawa in The Dangers in My Heart, as Mizutame Akira. A wildly fresh cyber love suspense filled with unpredictable twists, as depicted by Gensho Yasuda, is now set to spread across the world────!!

This exhibition is a ritual in which the artist, the viewer, and AI collaborate to summon new yokai through haiku. The artist breaks apart renku (5/7/5) created through an automatic-writing-like process, and the viewer freely creates a haiku (5/7/5) from those multiple words. The haiku formed from the viewer’s chosen combination is rewritten by ChatGPT into a 50-word English poem. The English poem is then read by an image-generation AI that imitates Takakura’s style, summoning a new yokai. As soon as it is born, the yokai is released into the online world, destined to become an NFT bearing the name of the haiku. This exhibition reconsiders the themes that Surrealism pursued through the lens of contemporary AI. Generative AIs such as ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion learn from vast archives of all human knowledge from around the world available on the internet, and output text and images through a kind of imagination that is not human. Isn’t this a mode of access very close to the Surrealists’ attempts to reach the human unconscious at the height of Surrealism? Rather than accessing dreams or the inner world of the unconscious, contemporary humanity uses the internet to access the archive of all humankind, and with the help of AI, a nonhuman imagination, makes choices through what might be called an “unconscious consciousness.” In this exhibition, the imaginative powers of the artist, the viewer, and AI, placed side by side, perform a ritual to summon countless new “yokai” as “nonexistent (digital) beings” in the form of NFTs online. May 2023: ver. 1.0 exhibited at NEORT++ September 2023: ver. 2.0 exhibited at art stage osaka March 2024: ver. 3.0 exhibited at Ashikaga Museum of Art

This work emerged from an experiment in using programming languages to decompose and reconstruct the pixels of an image. While exploring the possibilities of new forms by incorporating a variety of perspectives and the ideas of overlaying and shifting, I also discovered colors that had been there but unseen, and shapes in the process of transformation. This series of animations also carries the message that people can be reborn again and again. * Produced for the satellite exhibition of the Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions (the photographs are from the Yebisu area in January 2024). * Four photographic animations are connected using the same algorithm. CCBT × Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2024 “Poems in Code: The Present of Generative Art / Moving Images Generated by Programming” Planning: Civic Creative Base Tokyo [CCBT] Program Direction: Theo Hyojeong, Takao Shunsuke - Original project: “Playing with Pixels” https://printwithcode.org/playing-with-pixels/

For the past five years, I have been creating short self-initiated pieces synced to music as practice for motion graphics. This reel brings together 57 practice videos I made in 2023–2024 out of the 257 videos I have produced so far, along with several works I created professionally over the past few years.

Ending animation for Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury Season 2, broadcast from April to July 2023. To weave the story of Season 2 together through symbolic visuals, the main keywords were “synesthesia” and “dreamlike theater,” and the animation was created to move between the hearts of the protagonist Suletta (the red-haired girl) and Miorine (the white-haired girl). In the story, the two protagonists’ hearts continue to miss each other, and this was symbolically expressed by showing Suletta standing on a theater stage and Miorine projected from a film projector, physically passing by one another, representing their relationship. Within the main story, there are references reminiscent of Shakespeare’s play The Tempest, and the ED animation also begins with an opening shot inspired by stage drama. It was created with the image of characters who operate behind the scenes, as if making the two protagonists dance on the stage set called the school. On the other hand, by giving it a strong film-grain look, the animation symbolically expresses how the protagonists struggle against the story burned into film as “the curse of Gundam.”

Responsible for storyboards, animation, compositing, and more.

Description: A three-part project by Berlin-based Italian sound producer NOCUI, consisting of two singles and one EP. I created the jacket artwork and a visualizer based on it. Set to Italo Disco, the piece connects imaginary worlds to landscapes from Italy of a bygone era. Nostalgic yet fantastical scenes are rendered solely through the flickering of lines evocative of neon signs. *This video is a re-edited version of three works.

Wakui from VeAble handled the direction / VFX. All filming was done against a green screen. A futuristic city was created in 3DCG, bringing to life a visually creative work with a grand world that could not be captured through ordinary filming.