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"Revival Day" is a program that gives people the chance to reunite, just once more, with someone who is no longer in this world. In the program, the reunion between Tetsuro Degawa and his biological mother, who passed away eight years ago, is recreated. Whatever was responsible for planning and technical direction, art direction, and the production of the making-of movie "Behind the scene." ーーー [Creator's Comment] What I paid the most attention to on the art direction side was keeping television-style direction to a minimum, so that viewers could focus on the conversation between Degawa and his mother, Yasuko. For that reason, I proposed an extremely simple set design consisting of only chairs and a monitor. On the technology side, the biggest challenge was the complete lack of reference photos and footage. A few low-resolution printed photos, and a lucky find: about 15 seconds of footage of Degawa and Yasuko appearing together for the only time. There was almost no audio data. Under those circumstances, recreating a person from the past with CG was an extremely difficult task. The CG production process used Autodesk Maya for modeling; VICON + Faceware + IGS + MotionBuilder were integrated and rendered in Unreal Engine; grading was done in DaVinci Resolve + MISTIKA; and compositing was done in Nuke. However, unlike ordinary CG production work, we repeatedly made small adjustments while tracing the family's memories and checked them over and over, gradually bringing Yasuko closer to life. Degawa's brothers and sisters helped us an extraordinary number of times. I would like to take this opportunity to express my sincere gratitude to them. Whatever Producer Yusuke Tominaga

Description: For the special exhibition “The Human Body: A Challenge to the Mysteries,” held at the National Museum of Nature and Science in Ueno from March 13, 2018, we planned and produced the installation “Jintai NETWORK SYMPHONY.” Visitors can experience the beautiful, bustling “vast network within the human body” as revealed by the latest science. In conjunction with this exhibition period, we also produced special web content featuring a 3D simulation of the exhibit (PC only). You can experience the visualization as if you were actually inside “Jintai NETWORK SYMPHONY.” https://www.nhk.or.jp/kenko/jintai/networksymphony/