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FY2026 Agency for Cultural Affairs Media Arts Creator Development Support Program Project Call Visual

2026

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For Reiwa 8 as well, I was again in charge of the key visual for the call for proposals for the Agency for Cultural Affairs Media Arts Creators Development Support Program. By combining 3DCG created with Blender, rotoscoping, and distinctive textural expressions using a thermal printer, I built a tactile visual world in which digital and analog elements coexist comfortably. Existing values are depicted as a “school of fish,” or a collection of homogeneous individuals, while the newly emerging “egg” within it is expressed as a symbol of new values and perspectives nurtured through the support program. The sound design is by SOZEN OTSUBO. The delicate sound gives the entire video an organic sense of life.

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B-PARTY 2026 Official Teaser

2026

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Under the creative direction of the Yokohama DeNA BayStars, we produced the visuals and teaser movie for “B-PARTY 2026.” With Yokohama Stadium transformed into a party venue, the event offers food and drinks alongside powerful sound from the DJ stage. The sound design for the attack video was handled by SKYTOPIA. The danceable sound, perfectly suited to the event, was created using cheers and bat sounds as source material.

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Welcome Youth 2026: A New Spring Sensation

2026

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Produced an advertising film for the Welcome Youth campaign, planned by the Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture. During the campaign period, users aged 18 and under can enter eligible exhibitions and performances for free. Set against scenes that symbolize spring break, a man and a woman experience art. The work was created around a hopeful visual theme, serving as a gateway to new experiences. The sound design was by SOZEN OTSUBO, who has collaborated on projects with Hoshimiya Toto and others. A soft spring atmosphere is expressed through dazzling light, vivid colors, and rich tones.

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FUNCORE vol.02

2025

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Main visual for “FUNCORE,” a party planned to coincide with Kero Kero Bonito’s Sarah Bonito’s visit to Japan. Layering the pop sensibility that also resonates with J-pop and the humor of nerdcore onto the hard-edged presence of an acidic cyber bug, as if reconstructed from metal and synthetic resin, the work boldly crossovers between contrasting textures. The artist also took part as a VJ on the day of the event, controlling the space with a consistent graphic tone from the key visual to the venue design. During Sarah Bonito’s set, they performed as a VJ in a B2B with Monotone, pursuing a denser visual expression.

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TAMURA Ikuho ShowReel 2025

2025

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ShowReel by Ikuho Tamura, a graphic designer, visual designer, and filmmaker. Primarily active in client and commissioned work, including advertising, promotional art direction, music artwork, and music videos. Drawing on the know-how gained through a career in graphic design, he pursues rich visual expression in both still images and moving images. The sound design was done by SOZEN OTSUBO. ー Ikuho Tamura / TAMURA Ikuho Graphic Designer / Visual Designer / Filmmaker Born in Ehime Prefecture. Based in Tokyo. Graduated from the Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Art and Culture, Onomichi City University. Primarily active in client and commissioned work, including advertising, promotional art direction, music artwork, and music videos. Aiming to create new emotional value, he pursues cross-disciplinary visual expression, with an eye toward developing visual work across a variety of media. Recently, as part of his life’s work, he has also been focusing on figure production using 3D printers and VJ performances.

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“Shangri-La and the Taxi” MLA2025 Visual Edit

2025

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As part of MUSIC LOVES ART 2025, a project in collaboration between the Agency for Cultural Affairs and the urban music festival “SUMMER SONIC,” we created a visual work inspired by Mega Shinnosuke’s “Togenkyo to Taxi.” It was screened for 17 days, from Friday, August 15 to Sunday, August 31, 2025, on designated signage in Osaka and Suita (including Expo ’70 Commemorative Park) and in Chiba (Makuhari Shintoshin). The song’s pop and dreamlike world is visualized in 3DCG through vivid colors with a whimsical yet cool sensibility. Centered on motifs inspired by the lyrics, the materials and graphics weave together playfulness and logic. To accommodate the differing aspect ratios of the signage, the basic unit of the modules within the video is composed of squares, with the layout direction adjusted for each venue. A wide variety of objects overlap within the video, gradually emerging as a personal “Togenkyo.”

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SIGNS LAUNCH NIGHT / The VJ section for SKYTOPIA

2025

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As the culmination of an ongoing music and visual collaboration project with sound producer SKYTOPIA, an EP release party was held. I was in charge of VJing from the latter half of the setlist. Making bold use of the permanent 4K LED screen at Daikanyama Theater Guild, the performance was designed to envelop the entire space. For this show, an Audio Reactive system using TouchDesigner was introduced for the first time. By generating visuals and effects that respond to audio signals in real time, the performance aimed to create an expression in which sound and imagery merge dynamically. On the other hand, there were no shortage of challenges on the technical side, including the complexity of the COMP structure and the flexibility of operation. Going forward, I plan to continue making updates, with an eye toward redesigning the system, including improvements to the layout and operability.

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SKYTOPIA feat. Sigma-T “ODORIBA” Music Video

2025

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One day, Cornelius and Zira of the Grey Men came from outer space. The place they visited was an abandoned school at night. There, yokai and UMAs lived freely, as if enjoying a moment of release on a “dance floor”……. We produced the music video for “ODORIBA,” a song by SKYTOPIA and rapper Sigma-T, which depicts the “dance floor” that changes along with the flow of life. Based on Sigma-T’s analogical way of thinking—expressing the frustrations of life by drawing an analogy from the word “dance floor”—we also developed the MV’s setting and plot by combining the homophones “stairs” and “ghost story.” From the urban-legend-like subculture of encounters between the unknown and the unknown, it unravels the sense of transgression and exhilaration that humans have continued to seek at night.

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FY2025 Agency for Cultural Affairs Media Arts Creator Development Support Project Call for Proposals Visual

2025

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As in the previous year, I was in charge of the visual for the call for proposals for the Agency for Cultural Affairs’ Media Arts Creator Development Support Program. I created the base 3DCG motion in Blender and animated it using rotoscoping techniques. The way the letters of MAC (Media Art Creator) transform freely expresses the process of refining ideas during the proposal stage.

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SKYTOPIA – FLUTERRA (Official Music Video)

2024

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Sound producer SKYTOPIA, also a member of KOMONO LAKE and Coldhot, and graphic designer Ikuho Tamura have released their fourth collaborative single, “FLUTERRA.” Based on UK garage and trap beats, this work—whose title combines a word for flute with a coined term meaning earth—was completed through the parallel production of both the music and the visuals. Its simple vector art, composed of limited areas of color, expresses a dynamic yet fanciful ecosystem.

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SKYTOPIA – Run (Official Music Video)

2024

00:03:11

Sound producer SKYTOPIA, who is also active as a member of KOMONO LAKE and Coldhot, and graphic designer Ikuho Tamura have released their third collaboration single, “Run.” The track was handled by SKYTOPIA, and the artwork by Ikuho Tamura. This work was created with the music and visuals developed in parallel, each inspiring the other as they came together. With the theme of “Run,” the visual motifs draw on Eadweard Muybridge’s “moving photographs.” An analog-based ASCII art video, adapted from the rotoscope technique, and a track built around UK garage and house, enriched with a striking melody, color the listener’s “run.”

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SKYTOPIA – Pu!se (Official Music Video)

2024

00:03:15

Sound producer SKYTOPIA, also active as a member of KOMONO LAKE and Coldhot, and graphic designer Ikuho Tamura have released the collaborative single “Pu!se.” The track was produced by SKYTOPIA, while the artwork was created by Tamura. Both the audio and visuals were developed in parallel for this work, with each inspiring the other as the piece came together. In response to the groovy house beat and vivid melody, a collection of 3DCG objects and poetic typography express a one-of-a-kind Pulse = “heartbeat.”

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Hoshimiya Toto + SOZEN OTSUBO - Hi-fi (Official Music Video)

2024

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Created the music video for “Hi-fi,” included on the collaborative EP “Beyond the Binary - EP” by Hoshimiya Toto, who is active on the front lines of internet pop, and SOZEN OSTUBO. Actively employing digital assets such as typography, 3DCG, and PLATEAU, it pursues bold and rich visual expression. In response to the song’s delicate details and dense sound, the colors shift vividly, and the objects reveal a variety of scenes and expressions. From pop, airy chaos, it conveys the space between the virtual and the real.