When listening to “Hada no Yume” as a song, I felt my chest tighten with a deep ache, as if something within the hearts of the living were drifting to the surface, in a film where death and life quietly coexist and seep into one another. Through the MV, which I was invited to make after Director Horigimoto saw my work Honekami, I wanted to depict the nature of Shikoku and Kochi with tactile detail, and create an image that was not a line-by-line visual translation of the poem. What is “Hada no Yume”? The innocent, soft sense of reassurance in which one can remain unaware even of being “naked” is just like the feeling of those left behind, warmed by thoughts of the person they love. I wanted, in my own way as an MV, to weave into it the director’s feelings for the film, as well as the gentleness of the light that binds the false image and the real one, through the life and death close to me, and through flowers and the seasons. Lost lives do not return, and the living can only continue to remember. I created this piece while thinking of the mother in the film Hada no Yume, and of Yume. https://honamiyano.com/works/

Music video for OGRE YOU ASSHOLE’s “More Like You Than You Yourself.” As the title suggests, since the song was about oneself and a person very similar to oneself—perhaps not a mere look-alike, but an existence created by technology such as a robot, AI, or clone—the idea began with wondering whether it would be interesting to make a video in which two different looks are going back and forth. While symbolically treating hand-drawn scenes created with pen on paper and scenes that have been reduced in resolution and pixelated, the two textures gradually blend together and follow a path toward becoming particles in the end. The basic approach is simple hand-drawn animation, with everything drawn on paper with a pen. To create a live-action-like quality of movement rather than a cartoonish one, many scenes were first animated in 3DCG and then rotoscoped by hand.

DEZERT “There’s No Blood!” MV

Original project. Currently in test pre-production development. We will irregularly document our everyday lives with our dance friends through illustrations and short animated clips. Together, step by step, through “Step By Step,” we’ll become better dancers and make each day happier.