Created the opening video for the anime series Dead Dead Demons Dededede Destruction. By photographing the cityscape that served as the model for the original work from the same angles as in the anime and manga, and compositing the characters into it, the piece is designed to make the world of the manga feel even more immediate. The style was distilled into one that reflects original creator Inio Asano’s approach of drawing from 3DCG models and photographs.

Produced a holiday-season film for BAO BAO ISSEY MIYAKE. Rather than using cool, solid-looking CG, we explored a pop-inspired expression with warmth. By staging the character-like bags, “STREAK,” dancing joyfully, we expressed the excitement of the holiday season.

Planning and production for the promotional film for MIKIMOTO’s new high jewelry collection, “Wild and Wonderful.” The film depicts, in a dynamic and pop-infused style, the journey across five continents and the encounters with jewelry inspired by the wild animals that inhabit them.

About the Project As part of a technical tutorial on video production for the “PLATEAU” project promoted by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, WOW was responsible for planning, producing, and directing a video work themed around Niigata Prefecture. PLATEAU provides 3D city models from across Japan as open data, helping to drive digital transformation in urban development and foster open innovation. In this project, we created a film, tutorial, and hands-on video using Niigata Prefecture’s 3D city model. Through this effort, we explored the creative potential and expressive possibilities of PLATEAU. Video Work “NIIGATA WONDER by PLATEAU” With the ظهور of a dragon, the god of water, mysterious gigantic objects begin to appear in various places across Niigata Prefecture. Their true identities are Niigata’s famous local specialties: Tochio Aburaage, sasadango, poppo-yaki, hegi soba, and snow crab. Guided by the dragon, these giant local delicacies eventually gather at Bandai Bridge in the center of Niigata City—. Combining a 3D model of Niigata City, live-action footage, and VFX, the work portrays the character and unique qualities of the city on a grand scale as a “fictional PR video.” PLATEAU PLATEAU is a project to realize digital twins of cities across Japan, promoted by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism in collaboration with a variety of stakeholders. It develops 3D city models as platform data for urban activity and creates use cases across diverse fields. In addition, PLATEAU provides 3D city models as open data so that anyone can freely access urban data. By advancing the development, utilization, and open-data deployment of 3D city models, PLATEAU aims to realize digital transformation in urban development and generate open innovation.

A concept movie was produced to showcase two new technologies independently researched and developed by DESCENTE: “Ori-eri” and “Terra Pattern.” By treating the collar as if it were architecture, wide camera angles and camera work were employed to highlight the collar’s sculptural beauty.

Produced a concept film for SIGMA’s Art line. Through a group of lenses standing elegantly against the sky and the world seen through the windows of the letter A, the film metaphorically expresses the worldview of Art. Based on the concept that a lens’s value lies not in the lens itself, but in the world seen through it, we were careful not to forcefully proclaim the brand’s value.

When you change your “point of view,” new things come into view, and the way you feel and think changes—something everyone has likely experienced. In this work, by changing viewpoints and focusing on a specific viewpoint alone, we challenged ourselves to intentionally reconstruct the scenery and create a sense of appreciation.

About the Work “sonus-oleum ; Sonosorium” is a live installation in which visitors can experience works in different forms on each of the three floors of the ship-shaped facility (T-LOTUS M): B1F, 1F, and the rooftop. With the premise that “music becomes the energy that moves the ship,” the work explores the form of music born inside the ship through the following four formats. Live Performance 1 — The Birth of Music — This work begins with a live performance on B1F. The music is an original piece composed by Fumitake Ezaki specifically for this live installation. The performance is by Fumitake Ezaki (piano), Shuntaro Tsuneta (violin), Sonoko Muraoka (cello), and an automatic piano. The venue was designed with eight 3 m × 4 m screens installed on both sides of the performers, enveloping visitors in music and imagery. Real-time motion graphics synchronized with the instruments were projected onto the screens. The elements composing the real-time motion graphics are the piano’s output of keyboard input (88 keys), the strength and duration of pedal presses, and the hand movements of the violin and cello players captured using ring devices. The real-time motion graphics linked to the performers’ movements depict the energy of music being generated and floating upward to the upper levels. Interactive Installation — Variation through Images — The energy of the music born in the B1F live performance appears as bubbles within the interactive work on 1F. Seven 2.4 m × 2.4 m translucent screens were installed throughout the 1F space in alignment with the windows, and interactive visuals were projected onto them. When visitors touch the bubbles displayed on each screen, the bubbles split, and each note of the original piece transforms into a different timbre. Variations born from chance continue to be generated endlessly. Projection Mapping — Music Creates Wind — The variations generated on 1F rise further to the rooftop, where they create the wind that moves the ship. Using four large 30,000-lumen projectors, the wind stirred up by the power of music and striking the sails was projected above the visitors’ heads. Live Performance 2 — A Session with Returned Sound — In the second live performance held on B1F, the automatic piano played in real time the variations generated by visitors touching the bubbles on 1F, while Ezaki (piano), Tsuneta (violin), and Muraoka (cello) improvised along with it. The interplay of visitor-generated variations, improvised live performance, and real-time motion graphics evoked a new form of music. Through these four processes, this live installation created a landscape in which sound was “unlearned” and transformed into new sounds, continuing in circulation. The title “sonus-oleum ; Sonosorium” is a coined word combining sonus, meaning sound, and petroleum, meaning oil.

When I looked at Jomon pottery with the naked eye, its distinctive protrusions and patterns made me imagine landscapes, natural phenomena, the forms and movements of living creatures, and even sounds and sensations. The way fragments of various kinds of information intermingle in it feels almost like a poem of the Jomon people. Could these not be related to life forms that the Jomon people ate in order to survive—that is, might they have felt prayer and awe toward the living beings they were given, and might that energy have given rise to the grotesque yet beautiful forms of Jomon pottery? This work was conceived and created based on these ideas.

BAO BAO ISSEY MIYAKE is a bag brand built on an innovative concept and production method that freely creates endless forms by combining pieces. Its triangular structure transforms the shape, bringing beauty, delight, and surprise born of chance to the user, while also offering practicality that functions in every aspect of daily life. In “Shape with a world,” the infinite forms that define the BAO BAO ISSEY MIYAKE concept are expressed through motifs inspired by various objects and phenomena in the natural world. Phenomena abstracted through the BAO BAO ISSEY MIYAKE structure are endowed with new meaning and beauty, creating a unique world. Through this process, the work explores the appeal of the organic, distinctive forms and movements generated by its triangular structure.

To announce the debut of SIGMA’s new lens series for mirrorless cameras, the “I series,” we produced a promotional video. Its presence, born from the beauty and texture made possible only by exceptional quality, goes beyond being a mere tool and offers the joy of holding and handling it, as well as the pleasure of owning it. As a promotion for this new lens series, we aimed to create a visual presentation that would allow viewers to fully experience the lens’s outstanding build quality, the texture of its finer details, and the pleasant feel of operation.

2019年8月3日から9月29日まで、宮城県石巻市で開催されたReborn-Art-Festival（リボーンアート・フェスティバル）にて、萩浜エリアの山の麓にある洞窟の奥で蠢く光のインスタレーション「Emerge」を公開。戦時中に旧日本海軍が魚雷を格納するために作られたこの洞窟は、戦後数十年を経て、入り口周辺は植物で覆われ、岩の表面は苔生し、原始的な迫力を感じさせる雰囲気を醸し出している。「Emerge」は、時に激しく、軌跡をランダムに描き出しながら、暗がりの中でさまざまな表情を見せ、鑑賞者に「アニマ＝動きに宿る、いのち」を感じさせる。

作品について タイガー魔法瓶のコンセプトファッションブランドである、「LOVE TIGER COLLECTION」の2019 WINTER コンセプトムービーの演出・制作を担当。 3Dスキャニングされたモデルをアニメーションさせることで、シーズンテーマである「GAME」をポップに表現した。今作は新しい試みとして、ソニーのR&Dセンターとのコラボレーションによる、Volumetric技術を使用したカットも制作。また、TV-CMとして15秒版も制作し、O.A.された。

2020年へのカウントダウンが始まり、平成から新しい時代へと移り変わろうとする中、日本の玄関口である東京・丸の内エリアに「新しい時代への扉」として、「ひかりのゲートウェイ」が展開。WOWは、丸の内周辺エリアに展示された「リフレクティブ・ウォール」と「リフレクティブ・ゲート」の企画・演出を担当。 人と街、そして未来を照らす「ひかり」をコンセプトに、鏡を用いた幻想的な空間を創出。幾何学に組まれた鏡の壁の中に、照明で照らされた街や人が映り込む作品「リフレクティブ・ウォール」。ゲート状に構成した鏡に抽象的な映像が「ひかり」として加わり、体験者はゲート内に入ることで、足元から天井まで幻想的な世界に包み込まれる作品「リフレクティブ・ゲート」を制作。 さまざまな「ひかり」や自身の姿が鏡の中で反射を繰り返し、普段とは違う見え方に遭遇することで、その体験が未来への糧となるような願いを込めた

BAO BAO ISSEY MIYAKEのプリミティブな三角ピースが生み出す無限の形状を、自然界のさまざまな物体や現象をモチーフに表現した。BAO BAOの構造体によって抽象化された現象は、新たな意味と美しさが付加されて独特な世界を作り上げていく。その様子を通して、三角形の構造体が生み出す、有機的でユニークな形状と動きの面白さを追求した作品。 www.baobaoisseymiyake.com

2018年9月、DESCENTEから発表された「FUSIONKNIT（フュージョンニット）」のプロモーション映像を制作。 「FUSIONKNIT」は、DESCENTEがスポーツウェアに求められる運動快適性をさまざまな技術とノウハウを融合（FUSION）することにより実現した、今までにないニットプロダクト。 パターンを変えながら編まれる生地のディテール表現や、カッティング技術、また各パーツが複雑な立体として形になっていく様子を、軽やかで直感的に伝わるよう構成された映像で表現した。

イタリアのフィレンツェにて、1月と6月の年2回開催されるメンズファッションのトレードフェア「ピッティ・イマージネ・ウオモ（PITTI IMMAGINE UOMO）：以下ピッティ・ウオモ」。WOWは、ピッティ・ウオモで新作コレクションを発表した「yoshiokubo（ヨシオクボ）」のランウェイとメイン会場付近のVilla Vittoria内にて、新作インスタレーションを公開。第92回となる今回、ヨシオクボと、世界的な人気を誇る「ポケットモンスター（ポケモン）」がタッグを結成。WOWは、ヨシオクボの世界観と、ファッションに対するリスペクトを発信するポケモンのブリッジとなるインスタレーションを企画・演出・制作した。

透明な有機ELディスプレイ20枚を使った実験的な映像インスタレーション作品。

“車の化身”としてサーキットをゴールに向かって踊り続ける森山未來さんの力強く独特な姿を軸に、エモーショナルな世界を作り上げたWEB CM。 スタントなしで過酷な撮影が行われた。 「フロアワーク」と呼ばれる全身と地面を使ったダンステクニックが取り入れられている点も見どころ。