This piece was created by rotoscoping a video of the Corgi kept at my parents’ home, converting that animation into a moving 3D CG mesh, and filming it with a camera.

Description: Expressing a glamorous, luxurious mood and catchy visuals that delight a sense of adult playfulness. Featuring an adorable bear, which became the symbolic motif of this collection, rendered in 3DCG to create an exciting holiday-season atmosphere.

Kagawa Truck Association, recruiting truck drivers. We staged it extravagantly so it would be comical and memorable.

Rental Cars Without Waiting: Yuki’s digital ad, Fukuoka trip edition. It shows a couple enjoying a smooth trip to Fukuoka.

“Rei” is a traditional performing arts team founded in 2023, and I am involved as a director. As Rei’s first independently produced performance, “Mokugeki” was planned and held at WALL&WALL on 2024/4/12. This performance was an attempt to reconstruct a concert of Japanese traditional instruments through direction, actively incorporating visual and lighting production. This is a reel of the visuals used in the live production. I explored visual direction as a lighting effect for the live performance. I experimented with creating visuals using a wide range of tools across genres, including live action, CG (Blender), simulation, audio-reactive visuals (TouchDesigner), and generative AI (Midjourney, Runway ML). You can view footage from the event at the link below. https://rei-japan.site/mokugeki-240412

Chugin Financial Group, which includes The Chugoku Bank headquartered in Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture, under its umbrella. With the mission of increasing long-term Chugin fans, we portrayed the changes within the Chugin Group through VFX and adapted them into a TV commercial and graphics.
 The challenge we were given this time was to “create long-term Chugin fans, especially among the younger generation.” In developing the concept, we conducted interviews in advance with more than 20 young employees across the Chugoku Bank, as well as other Chugin Financial Group companies. After organizing how the current Chugin brand is understood by employees, we pointed out the possibility that the headquarters’ efforts to reform its culture had not been fully communicated. Through repeated discussions with headquarters staff about the future Chugin aims to pursue from a long-term perspective, we decided to communicate the evolving Chugin both inside and outside the company using image-based visuals. In line with the project’s main copy, “Let’s give it a try,” we too took on our largest-ever scene construction challenge. In the first half of the story, we recreated as a time-lapse using 3DCG the moment when the Chugin Financial Group sign is raised from the former Chugoku Bank headquarters to the current headquarters building. We visited the Okayama Prefectural Library in person and collected materials spanning the past 50 years, then created 3D models of the streetscape around Chugin’s headquarters, including the surrounding distinctive buildings. Tradition is not the result of being preserved, but the result of continuing to change. And the grand, seemingly unchangeable landscape of today was also shaped by the accumulation of small challenges taken on by people in the past. To convey change, it is more effective not to declare that “we are changing,” but to capture and communicate the actual change itself. In the latter half of the film, we focused on the DX strategy that is already delivering results. After abstractly expressing Chugin’s evolution into a platformer connecting regional businesses through CG particles, we depict young employees energetically taking on challenges with digital devices, their supervisors encouraging and watching over their efforts, and young people at startups tackling innovation. As a regional bank, Chugin Financial Group only has meaning when it brings positive impact to the region through forward-looking initiatives. While leaving a strong impression of Chugin’s major step forward through visual expression using advanced techniques, we also conveyed that this is a change rooted in the local community and one that never forgets where it came from by closely capturing the regional people who appear in the work.

This work is an animated piece created using rotoscoping techniques based on a song by Ai Otsuka. It aims to visually express the song’s rich emotion and vitality, seeking to fuse real movement with art. It was also born out of a collaboration tied to Ai Otsuka’s solo art exhibition, incorporating as motifs the animals depicted in the paintings to be displayed there. Through a dialogue that transcends the realms of music and fine art, it explores new possibilities for visual expression. A world drawn by melody, a story played by color. We hope you will feel the poetic space created by the synchronicity of music and imagery.

We produced a music video depicting the growth of a high school trumpet player. The protagonist experiences a setback at a marching band competition and gradually loses connections with those around him. In this work, we express the protagonist’s inner transformation through striking scenes such as an evening classroom, the road home, and a performance at the competition, ultimately depicting him taking a new step forward as “one among the crowd.” An important turning point in the story is the scene where he witnesses an old friend’s performance. Seeing that his friend is surrounded by many companions gives the protagonist an opportunity to reconsider his own way of being. Through visual expression that combines CG and animation, we aimed to complement the song’s themes of “self-affirmation” and “growth” without compromising them. The sheet music, clock, and the changing expressions of the sky and notebook that appear throughout the film serve as important motifs symbolically representing the protagonist’s state of mind. As suggested by the title “I’m People,” the protagonist is no longer a special being, but accepts himself as one of the many and tries to move forward—this work portrays that relatable, down-to-earth figure.

Depicting the dawn of their hard-won debut, the composition shows how gathering firefly squid becomes a single great light, bringing the night to an end.

Description: “The infinite loop of exposing one’s shame under the name of a work” If those geniuses didn’t exist, wouldn’t my own work be recognized more? No, in the end, without those geniuses, I wouldn’t even exist in the first place. This is a song born of envy and admiration for geniuses. The video features many moths and butterflies. I created all of the music and visuals myself. The piece made in 2020 has been remixed, revised, and expanded, and is now released as the 2024 version. #Hashtag Animation Fes 2021 — Arch Co., Ltd. Award (previous version)

I created this piece using cutout animation, staying true to analog expression. By shining a light source from behind the drawing paper and using a glass surface to create layered visuals, I incorporated analog techniques inspired by special effects filmmaking.