"Blue Journey" is a new music project by hololive, the female VTuber group under hololive production. As the starting point of Blue Journey's journey, this video focuses on "depicting the past as the past and connecting it to the future," pursuing an expression reminiscent of "luxurious retro games." By combining Cinema 4D and Redshift, we were able to achieve a pixel-art look while also incorporating depth and volumetric lighting, resulting in a fresh new look that differs slightly from the conventional expression of retro games.

This is the teaser video for illustrator LAM’s solo exhibition “Senkakubanrai.” Since it was created as a video to bring together fans from overseas as well, we filmed the scenery at Animate Ikebukuro, a hub for cultural trends, and produced it with the image of the entire city being dyed in LAM’s colors. We used CG to express a collaboration between TORIENA’s aggressive sound and LAM’s worldview.

We aimed to create a work that pursued “coolness.” By drastically reducing the amount of color and unifying the overall visual look, then increasing the volume of color information during the chorus to excite the viewer, the piece also carries a somewhat satirical view of society: that this kind of “coolness” may in fact be a “violence of information overload.” It is also a work in which I confronted something fundamental at the root of my own creative practice. I also believe that by ignoring readability in the graphic elements, I was able to push the true potential of the designer to the limit.