The work begins with the idea of portraying the virtual singer “Hika-ji” as a being that contains multiple layers of wounds, and visualizing a sense of life that includes her fluctuations and fragility. Set in a seashore, a symbolic space of transience, the work layers the continuous flow of time in animation with fragments of time captured in film photographs, bringing forth both emotions that keep flowing and memories that remain still. Through physical alterations to the photographs and the use of blurring effects, the work attempts to abstractly visualize the sensation of experiences etched within her, surfacing as layered traces.

Created by a team born in the Heisei era, with a nostalgic texture. The entire piece has been processed with dithering, like what you might see on old game consoles.

This is a music video created for the doujin creative event VOCADUO. It is an experimental work that marked the first time I incorporated character modeling, rigging, and animation into my production process. “Wonder Room” refers to luxury goods and curiosities in Europe around the 16th century. It is said by the composer, sanmal, that the song WonderRoom “2.0” was created with the idea in mind that there is a similar underlying impulse to modern internet content consumption. The video was made with a pixelated visual style that also evokes a sense of nostalgia, depicting a world where one explores a digital realm. Since both the characters and backgrounds were created in CG, pixel-style look development took time. Rather than following a scenario-based flow like an animated film, it was produced with a concept that extends from motion graphics.