Cosmo Halloween / Kurosawa Madoka

Original animation "Yoshiru Machine" Episode 1

Brand film for the table tennis brand Butterfly. It beautifully intertwines live-action footage featuring rallies between 16-year-old prodigy Tomokazu Harimoto and German top player Timo Boll with CG, tightly synchronized to sharp sound design, depicting the brand’s worldview and the product’s powerful spin. This project began with the brief: “We want a video with an overseas feel that completely refreshes the image of table tennis, which is strongly associated with school club activities.” It was a collaboration with an amazing team, including director Takcom, who has worked with us since the days of W+K Tokyo Lab, the predecessor of JKD, and media artist Nobumichi Asai. Through many discussions with a passionate client and numerous staff members, this work was created with a focus on how to fuse the authenticity of the sport of table tennis with creativity.

This work is the music video for my own track “metamorphosis,” released on the beatmaker label “XXX//PEKE//XXX” by Sasakrect Inc. The visuals were created using Blender, bringing the chaotic noise and destructive aesthetics of the track to life. Like fragments of sound colliding, distorting, and rebuilding themselves, the imagery undergoes irregular and unpredictable transformations. As sight and sound clash and resonate with one another, the piece portrays a new order emerging from chaos. Please experience the beauty of chaos, where visuals and sound intertwine.

I created a Vocaloid MV with a rather unusual atmosphere by combining live-action backgrounds and characters with animation. Using photogrammetry and depth maps, I gave it a dreamlike feel.