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Papercraft Movie“The History of IDEMITSU” 【出光興産】 - 映像作家: watanabesaori
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Papercraft Movie“The History of IDEMITSU” 【出光興産】

2016
00:02:14
コマ撮りアニメーション作家のワタナベサオリが監督と脚本を手掛けた、 出光興産・創業105年スペシャルムービー『Papercraft Movie The History of IDEMITSU』が公開中です。 出光興産は明治時代に誕生した日本を代表するエネルギー企業。 公開されたムービーは、さまざまな苦難に挑戦し続けてきた出光興産と、 戦後輝かしい成長を遂げた日本が共に歩んできた歴史をペーパークラフトで表現したストップモーション・アニメーションです。登場するオブジェクトは全て紙で出来ています。 平面でありながら奥行き感のある映像に仕上げました。 レーザーカッターで厚手のクラフト紙を切り出し１コマずつ置き換え、 カメラワークとクラフト紙の位置や距離を少しずつ動かしながら18日間をかけて撮影した力作です。 この作品の大きな要でもある日の昇るシーンも、実際に太陽（照明）を少しずつ動かしながらアニメーションをしています。 情緒ある音楽や効果音にもぜひご注目ください。 撮影やペーパークラフト制作の様子が覗けるメイキングムービーも公開になりました。 こちらもぜひご覧ください↓ 『The Making of History【出光興産】』 vimeo.com/199440756

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Silent Play Visual Reel - 映像作家: rinnosuke
3DCGAudio visual performanceEventGenerative ArtInstallationInteractivePerformanceReal-time Graphics

Silent Play Visual Reel

2024
00:00:19
“Rei” is a traditional performing arts team founded in 2023, and I am involved as a director. As Rei’s first independently produced performance, “Mokugeki” was planned and held at WALL&WALL on 2024/4/12. This performance was an attempt to reconstruct a concert of Japanese traditional instruments through direction, actively incorporating visual and lighting production. This is a reel of the visuals used in the live production. I explored visual direction as a lighting effect for the live performance. I experimented with creating visuals using a wide range of tools across genres, including live action, CG (Blender), simulation, audio-reactive visuals (TouchDesigner), and generative AI (Midjourney, Runway ML). You can view footage from the event at the link below. https://rei-japan.site/mokugeki-240412
Silent Play Visual Reel - 映像作家: rinnosuke
3DCGArt workAudio visual performanceEventGenerative ArtInstallationInteractivePerformanceReal-time Graphics

Silent Play Visual Reel

2024
00:00:19
This is a reel of visuals used in live performance direction. I explored visual production as a lighting effect in a live setting. I experimented with creating visuals using a wide range of tools across genres, including live action, CG (Blender), simulations, audio-reactive systems (TouchDesigner, Resolume), and generative AI (Midjourney, Runway ML). In performances where shamisen parts are exchanged at high speed, manual operation with a controller could not keep up, so real-time visualization with TouchDesigner was effective.
HATCH - 映像作家: rinnosuke
3DCGLive actionOriginalShort film

HATCH

2023
00:03:51
“Earth as Seen from Space: A Culture” Inspired by music, this project visualizes the creative process of a Japanese dancer choreographing and a chef creating cuisine. This time, the theme is Daft Punk’s “Within.” Using CG, live action, and compositing, I created a video in which reality and unreality coexist. This is my first independently produced work. I used Polycam, Nomad Sculpt, Blender, Substance 3D Painter, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Firefly. The 3D models that appear were all modeled from scratch without using any assets. The slot symbols at the beginning of the work were generated using Adobe Firefly. Throughout the CG and live-action scenes, the footage was basically shot with a 50mm focal length. The props appearing in the work are compiled on the page below. Each product features a primitive silhouette, and I aimed to make them feel realistic. https://www.behance.net/gallery/184868293/HATCH-PROPS
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Gacha Life - 映像作家: hayazaka@filmoq.co.jp
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Gacha Life

2025
00:00:33
“Gacha Life” Available on the short drama app [FANY:D]. [Synopsis] Sachiko Yamanoura (27), who works in the HR department of an IT company, has spent her days with a string of the world’s worst luck—stepping on gum, catching her boyfriend cheating, and more—until she finally died in a ninth freak accident, without a second thought. But in the afterlife, “Gacha Life,” a salvation awaits: she can spin a gacha and choose her next-life partner. As one after another of the men appear—dependable superiors, dangerous entrepreneurs, vanished fiancés, and other anything-but-straightforward types—Sachiko faces her own “luck” and searches for what true happiness really is. A fresh kind of fantastical romantic comedy, woven together from a fantastical setting and comedic developments. Before long, Sachiko finds herself forced to “interview” a colorful cast of men, including an ex she wants to break up with, an influencer, and a missing fiancé. Are the choices really nothing but duds, or is there a winner in the mix? Who, in the end, will she choose as her “partner in the next life”—? [Project Concept] “Gacha Life” is a work that explores the fundamental question, “Is life determined by luck?” by intertwining black comedy with serious human drama. At the heart of the story is the journey of the protagonist, Sachiko Yamanoura, as she reexamines the choices in her life through a system of chance called “gacha.” At the foundation of the story lies the theme, “Can fate really be changed?” Sachiko has long believed that she is “unlucky,” but is her misfortune truly due to luck? Or have her own choices and actions been drawing those outcomes to her? This work poses such questions to the audience. [Direction Policy] For this work, I wanted to depict fantasy and real emotions in exquisite balance. By contrasting the realism of the world we know with the abstract afterlife world of “Gacha Life,” the story gains greater depth. Gacha Life (the afterlife) is designed as a simple, symbolic space, with visuals that allow the audience to intuitively understand, “What’s going to happen here?” By incorporating lighting and game-like UI (user interface) elements, we emphasize the feeling of “being made to choose one’s fate.” Depictions of the real world use handheld camerawork and natural lighting to create a realistic, intimate atmosphere. This emphasizes the tangible feel of Sachiko’s life and makes it easier for the audience to empathize with her choices. Balance of humor Not too serious, but not too light either. Since the very premise of “gacha” is humorous, the characters’ reactions are portrayed realistically. Rather than making the audience feel, “This is something that happens only in fiction,” we want them to think, “Maybe something like this could actually happen?”
10 Works
Omelet! - 映像作家: shota
2D animationAnimationComedyShort film

Omelet!

2023
00:00:15
This 15-second piece was created for “JAA Omnibus: Infinite ∞ 15-Second Animation,” a segment of “Into Animation 8,” an event hosted by the Japan Animation Association (JAA), which Shota belongs to. Interpreting the theme “infinite ∞” in my own way, I handled everything myself, from coming up with the idea to creating the animation and composing the music, and completed it in less than one week in total. I worked on the rough sketches in CLIP STUDIO PAINT (iPad version) to check the motion. After that, I scanned drawings made on paper and finished the video using After Effects and Photoshop. The music was created by humming the idea into a melody and building on it with GarageBand. The vocals were also recorded from my own singing.
Hulu IDs『PONPOKKO-PONNCHI』 - 映像作家: shota
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Hulu IDs『PONPOKKO-PONNCHI』

2021
00:02:45
I participated in and created this work for the logo movie project “Hulu IDs” for the U.S. version of the streaming service Hulu. I aimed to create an animation style that was energetic and exciting above all else. The music was made together with a friend I have worked with since my student days. As for the singing, I wanted to create a Japanese song that people overseas could enjoy too, so I chose Japanese words whose pronunciation I found appealing, regardless of their meaning, and arranged them to fit the melody. Paper drawing (brush pen, Copic markers, watercolor) After Effects (Adobe) Photoshop (Adobe) CLIP STUDIO PAINT (used on iPad for sketching)
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Chugin Financial Group Brand CM - 映像作家: IDENCE
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Chugin Financial Group Brand CM

2024
00:00:30
Chugin Financial Group, which includes The Chugoku Bank headquartered in Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture, under its umbrella. With the mission of increasing long-term Chugin fans, we portrayed the changes within the Chugin Group through VFX and adapted them into a TV commercial and graphics.
 The challenge we were given this time was to “create long-term Chugin fans, especially among the younger generation.” In developing the concept, we conducted interviews in advance with more than 20 young employees across the Chugoku Bank, as well as other Chugin Financial Group companies. After organizing how the current Chugin brand is understood by employees, we pointed out the possibility that the headquarters’ efforts to reform its culture had not been fully communicated. Through repeated discussions with headquarters staff about the future Chugin aims to pursue from a long-term perspective, we decided to communicate the evolving Chugin both inside and outside the company using image-based visuals. In line with the project’s main copy, “Let’s give it a try,” we too took on our largest-ever scene construction challenge. In the first half of the story, we recreated as a time-lapse using 3DCG the moment when the Chugin Financial Group sign is raised from the former Chugoku Bank headquarters to the current headquarters building. We visited the Okayama Prefectural Library in person and collected materials spanning the past 50 years, then created 3D models of the streetscape around Chugin’s headquarters, including the surrounding distinctive buildings. Tradition is not the result of being preserved, but the result of continuing to change. And the grand, seemingly unchangeable landscape of today was also shaped by the accumulation of small challenges taken on by people in the past. To convey change, it is more effective not to declare that “we are changing,” but to capture and communicate the actual change itself. In the latter half of the film, we focused on the DX strategy that is already delivering results. After abstractly expressing Chugin’s evolution into a platformer connecting regional businesses through CG particles, we depict young employees energetically taking on challenges with digital devices, their supervisors encouraging and watching over their efforts, and young people at startups tackling innovation. As a regional bank, Chugin Financial Group only has meaning when it brings positive impact to the region through forward-looking initiatives. While leaving a strong impression of Chugin’s major step forward through visual expression using advanced techniques, we also conveyed that this is a change rooted in the local community and one that never forgets where it came from by closely capturing the regional people who appear in the work.
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Before Your Heart Burns Out - 映像作家: kairisato
2D animationAnimationPromotionShort film

Before Your Heart Burns Out

2023
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Description: With the desire to give people living in today’s world, who are dealing with various kinds of stress, an opportunity to think about rest, we depicted breaking free from busy everyday life through a range of expressive techniques. We also incorporated challenging elements that would be difficult to achieve in live-action video, such as the scene of a house on fire, aiming for an aftertaste that lingers long after viewing. In addition, to encourage viewers to think about what sparks relaxation, the ending is designed to leave the interpretation up to the audience.
2 Works
See the Trees, See the Forest, - 映像作家: noradesigncollective
3DCGAnimationArt workEventInstallationInteractiveMotion graphicsR&DSignage

See the Trees, See the Forest,

2019
00:01:01
“Do not see the forest for the trees.” In this proverb, “trees” refers to a narrow perspective or the details of things, while “forest” refers to a broad perspective, the whole picture. Inspired by this proverb, we sought to give form to the process of actively shifting between perspectives and to the way this can create a more three-dimensional image. See the trees, see the forest, then see the trees again... This body of work is an installation that allows viewers to experience the moment when a one-sided image changes by moving back and forth between the fine-grained and the broad information symbolized by the “trees” and the “forest.” Each piece is equipped with an interface such as a knob, and by operating it, viewers can transform or rotate the motifs on the screen, navigating between the perspectives of trees and forest within each work.
3 Works
Cell Salt Noodles DEATH - 映像作家: umemi
2D animationAnimationMovieMusic video

Cell Salt Noodles DEATH

2024
00:04:11
以前から好きだったシシドヒナタさんの曲のMVを作成しようと。 イメージが決まったのは 丁度死生観について考えることが多い年で 宗教について少し考えたり学んだりした際に 日記的な歌詞とオリエンタル感のある音楽に宗教的な雰囲気が合うとひらめき メインビジュアルになる写真のプロップスタイルから発想を広げて イラスト、アニメーション、写真、実写動画を使って作成しました。 使用ソフトは　Photoshop、Fimora、iPhone
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CONTINUITY24 Type2 - 映像作家: renkiyamasaki
3DCGArt workImageInstallationMotion graphicsMovieOriginal

CONTINUITY24 Type2

2024, 2025
00:21:12
A project that has been ongoing since September 2020. A video is made every day. All of the “one day, one shot” images are based on the motif of fire. The aim is to create a continuity like a campfire—finite, yet somehow evoking infinity. These daily videos (fires) from January 1 to December 31, 2024, have been compiled here. At the same time, each video is given the name of a specific station. As if traveling, a fire is lit at each stop on a local train line. All of those station names are listed here. A station name contains memories and histories that differ from latitude and longitude or from municipal boundaries. If a station disappears or falls out of use, these videos (fires) may remember the memories left behind by the public.
Xansei x Kamiyada+ – JAB! (Official Music Video) - 映像作家: renkiyamasaki
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Xansei x Kamiyada+ – JAB! (Official Music Video)

2023
00:02:14
Music Video for “JAB!”, an original project track by music producer Xansei. Built from footage shot in LA, with red and blue planes added to the composition. Glitch effects were sometimes used. The aim was to emphasize the decadent world and occult atmosphere of the track through the visuals as well. Meanwhile, Xansei himself directly approached us after resonating with Renki Yamazaki’s “CONTINUITY” series from the One Shot a Day project. It can be said that this MV came to be because the worlds of the song and the visuals were originally adjacent to each other. Needless to say, the music remains the true centerpiece of the MV. However, this MV made us feel the possibility that the visuals and the music could stand on equal footing. In other words, it gave us an opportunity to reconsider how the visuals in an MV might avoid being “closed off” within the MV itself.
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Yukichi Kasaku/men "Youth" MV - 映像作家: takemiwatanuki
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Yukichi Kasaku/men "Youth" MV

2023
00:03:52
This piece, as its title suggests, is centered on “youth.” The artist told us that the song explores youth from three different perspectives, and that the music itself unfolds in three corresponding sections. Based on that structure, we also created the video as a three-part work. We depicted young people moving in groups within society, in a way that seems to resist that movement—or perhaps not quite resist it. The video is built on real-time rendering using Unity. All of the objects are programmed so that they do not collide with one another.
3 Works
Youth CHICKEN - 映像作家: tsumugi
3DCGMusic videoOriginal

Youth CHICKEN

2022
00:04:10
A roughly 4-minute music video rendered entirely in full 3DCG. It is a story-driven visual work in which the narrative unfolds in sync with the song. The visuals were designed with a strong emphasis on vivid, colorful imagery in line with the video’s themes of “cyberpunk,” “neon,” and “Chinese.” Because it includes many acrobatic camera movements, especially in action scenes, controlling the interactions between the characters proved quite difficult.
12 Works
Rainy (Official Video) - 映像作家: erisasaki
2D animationAnimationMusic video

Rainy (Official Video)

2024
00:04:01
I don’t dislike rainy days. The lively plants, the sparkling ground, and the moist air all feel pleasant to me. As I’ve grown older, I’ve come to think that I don’t dislike rainy days after all, and in fact I’ve started to enjoy them. This piece was created inspired by the stories and photographs about rainy days that I heard from Ms. Shoko. As for the technique, I drew it on paper with oil-based pens. To evoke the image of rain lines sparkling and to create a cheerful feeling, I used a variety of lines. Set to rhythmic music, this work depicts the everyday life of a girl and her cat enjoying a rainy day with high spirits.
NHK Minna no Uta "Me in the Guitar Case" - 映像作家: erisasaki
2D animationAnimationMusic videoTV

NHK Minna no Uta "Me in the Guitar Case"

2021
00:01:10
I was in charge of the animation for NHK Minna no Uta’s “Boku no Naka no Guitar Case” (“Me Inside the Guitar Case”). The image that came to mind was of a humble, steadfast me, living each day while carrying worries and anxieties. Turning the various thoughts and realizations that arise in everyday life into music, and that music enriching my life. I wanted to depict that adorable little life. I also felt that this song was not only for those who dream of becoming musicians, but for everyone who is pursuing different kinds of dreams. So I decided to make the animation feel like a collection of pieces from an ordinary, simple life. This time, the protagonist is me, carrying a guitar case, but I think many of you may find your own lives reflected in it as well. I hope your everyday lives will come to feel dear and precious to you. *The video shown is silent due to licensing restrictions.

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