Puppet animation Shinano Mainichi Shimbun “Shinmai Video Commercial Contest, General Division, Special Prize”

Socks all muddy. What if Mom gets angry at me...? An animation created based on memories from early childhood. When children realize that there is a world bigger than the one they themselves perceive, they feel a very embarrassing and complex emotion. I believe that children gradually grow up through experiences like this. It was made on a PC with techniques designed to make it look like an analog production.

A man drinks the water in a glass and falls asleep. An entity watches over him from above the clouds.... Around us, furniture, houses, trees, animals, and people are born, disappear, and are born again. This work takes as its theme this “cycle of all things.” The animation unfolds as if dancing to lively music, and is rendered in a bright, energetic style with the subtle fluctuations of hand-drawn lines. Technique: Colored pencil and Crayon drawing Water is in the cup. Water goes to the sky and extends to outer space. Then return to the ground. Its iteration. The theme of this work is the circulation of everything. "A human being is like water, the state of putting water in a water bottle is a human being, and it has an ego and personality by a water bottle, but if it breaks the water bottle, everything is the same water." This work progressed in a single cut like the flow of water, so that the beginning and the end are looped at the same cut.

I love rice balls. Let’s pinch the rice grains stuck to our mouths and watch rice grow to cheerful music! To help young children have fun learning about rice, I created this animation about the process from growing rice to eating it (including rice plant growth, rice planting, rice harvesting, cooking, and more). Animation: Ikuo Kato Clay was placed on glass and filmed with light shining from below. Music: Wakako Abo The animation was matched to lively, cheerful music based on the South Indian instrument called the “parai.” Nrithyanjali Dance Troupe https://nrithyanjali.info/