A story about a family of three—a pig, a fish, and a tadpole—living deep inside the belly of a fish. One day, their life is suddenly transformed when a fruit washes ashore. A 17-minute short animation created as a graduation project for the Animation Department of the Graduate School of Tokyo University of the Arts.

Flash animation × Synchro Vox — an anime packed with ad-libbed improvisation. We composited live-action footage of Chocolate Planet’s mouths onto the characters’ mouths to create animated characters. We had wanted to make a work using Synchro Vox for some time, so I think this approach worked out well. [Story] The little goblins “Pīchiki” and “Pāchiki” come from Herupipota Town. They chatter away so much that, for some reason, only their mouths have turned out like this. Why not take a peek at the slightly unusual everyday lives of these goblins as they chat about all sorts of things? A brand-new character with only the “mouth” performed by Chocolate Planet, rendered in live action. Their appearance is a little... unusual, but once you get used to them, they’re cute!? A new-style “narekawa” anime! This work uses the limited animation (Synchro Vox) technique. It employs a method in which live-action footage of Chocolate Planet’s mouths, who provide the voices, is composited onto the characters’ mouths. →https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/リミテッド・アニメーション Improvised performances by popular comedians, including Chocolate Planet, have also drawn attention. In addition to the anime, the work has also been shown as manner movies in Aeon Cinema and Yoshimoto Kogyo theaters.

Various patterns of life and death glimpsed in the moments before drifting off on an operating table. Did the surgery end safely? Is the patient alive now? This work is a stereoscopic experimental film inspired by the creator’s own experience of, upon waking from a dream, sensing that the left eye and the right eye were seeing different worlds. In addition to creating a sense of depth across layers, the hand-colored metamorphosis animation drawn on paper was transferred into digital form, after which rounded contours were added to match the shapes. We also studied how to achieve a visual balance in expressing the idea that the left eye and the right eye are seeing different worlds, and made careful adjustments repeatedly.