Artwork and teaser visuals for “Pressure,” a collaboration single by Ogasawara and SKYTOPIA, two notable producers from Tokyo’s new UKG scene. The tense, tight two-step rhythm and groovy bassline are expressed through elegant visuals with an acidic touch. In previous WORKS, ASCII art-style visual expression was created using After Effects, but this time, tool development was carried out with Claude Code, successfully building a low-cost workflow. The creature seated at the center is inspired by venomous organisms such as the Asian tiger mosquito and the blue-ringed octopus, pursuing a uniquely original mashup.

At the opening of the comedy duo “Raland”’s solo live show “Shukuden Vol. 2,” a video was screened. Built around a look that combines cuteness and coolness with an anything-goes kind of chaos, we aimed to create an exciting video that would get the energy up as the first thing shown at the solo performance, while packing in little in-jokes that fans would instinctively smile at. We were responsible for the composition, editing, design, and animation.

Inside the spheres, there are myriad lights intermingled: lights with tangible material existence, large, strong lights like soap bubbles, huge, weak, jiggly lights like lumps of jelly, and lights generated by the surrounding environment. Within the spheres, some lights keep moving while others remain completely still. The light in each sphere cannot generate everything on its own; the other spheres become the environment, and the environment generates the myriad lights within each sphere. Each sphere becomes part of the environment that generates the light of the other spheres, and the phenomena created by the environment are the existence of the work. Also, except for the material light, such as the soap-bubble-like light and the jelly-like light that appears strongly within spheres at higher positions, the light does not physically exist inside the spheres; it exists in perception. And when it exists in perception, it is existence. When a person stops near a sphere and remains still, the nearest sphere shines brightly and resounds with a tone, and the light propagates from that sphere to the nearest sphere. The propagated light continues on to the next nearest sphere, and so on. The light always continues only to the nearest sphere, passing through each sphere only once, becoming a single light path that traverses all the spheres. And the light born from oneself and the light born from others intersect. The seemingly random arrangement of the spheres is a configuration in which the light generated by people’s presence continues from sphere to sphere, a configuration for the beauty of continuity itself. Specifically, the positions of the spheres in space are mathematically determined so that, when lines are drawn from each sphere to the nearest sphere in three-dimensional space, they form a single connected line that can be drawn in one stroke, with the same start and end point (unicursal), and so that the line, which becomes the path of light, is beautiful. As a result, although the light of the spheres responding to people only propagates to the nearest sphere, it passes through all the spheres only once, like a one-stroke drawing. At the same time, it intersects with the light generated by others during the same period. This is a work that expresses the beauty of continuity in the light created when people interact with spheres in free spaces. Work page: https://www.teamlab.art/jp/ew/bubbleuniverse-azabudai/tokyo/?autoplay=true