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NHK General "The Day of Resurrection: If You Could Meet the Dead"

2019

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NHK General "The Day of Resurrection: If You Could Meet the Dead"
  • NHK General "The Day of Resurrection: If You Could Meet the Dead"
Client / Planning: NHK(日本放送協会)
Planning / Production: Whatever

Idea: 服部 竜馬 (NHK) / 富永 勇亮（Whatever） / 竹村 武司

企画・統括
Chief Producer: 水高 満 (NHK)
Planner / Production Designer: 服部 竜馬 (NHK)
Executive Producer / Technical Director: 伊達 吉克 (NHKエンタープライズ)
Producer: 立花 達史 (NHKエンタープライズ)
Director: 出口 明 (NHKエンタープライズ)
Video Engineer: 井手 一郎 (NHKエンタープライズ)
Video Engineer: 杉浦 弘薫 (NHKエンタープライズ)
Director: 長江 俊和 (株式会社NEBULA)
Planner / Script Writer: 竹村 武司
Planner / Producer: 富永 勇亮（Whatever）
Creative Director: 川村 真司（Whatever）
Technical Adviser: Saqoosha（Whatever）
Project Manager: ながしまみのり（Whatever）
Logo & Title Design: 高谷 優偉（Whatever）
Title Animation: 東方田 桂伊
Colorist / Compositor: 田巻 源太 (株式会社インターセプター)
Sound Effect: 矢部 公英 (株式会社アッパーアローズ)
Production: イーストファクトリー
CG制作
CGI Designer: 杉浦 麻希子 (株式会社SuaveImages.)
CGI Designer: 竹島 理恵 (株式会社SuaveImages.)
CGI Designer: 渡邉 由紀 (株式会社SuaveImages.)
CGI Product Manager: 後藤 亜由美 (フレームワークス・エンターテインメント)
CGI Designer: 石井 優樹 (フレームワークス・エンターテインメント)
CGI Designer: 岡本 晃 (フレームワークス・エンターテインメント)
CGI Designer: 田中 隆史 (フレームワークス・エンターテインメント)
CGI Designer: 西牟田 祐禎 (フレームワークス・エンターテインメント)
Motion Capture: 林 丈二 (スパイス)
Motion Capture: 石原 範子 (スパイス)
Motion Capture: 若井 雅幸 (株式会社クレッセント)
Motion Capture: 工藤 文皓 (株式会社クレッセント)
Motion Capture: 大淵 啓吾 (株式会社クレッセント)
Motion Capture: 横山 亮平 (株式会社クレッセント)
Motion Capture: 太田 貴士 (株式会社クレッセント)
Motion Capture: 近藤 悠人 (株式会社クレッセント)

撮影
Camera Operator: 野口 喬
Camera Operator: 島彰 宏
Camera Operator: 安岡 洋史
Camera Operator: 呉 敬訓
Camera Operator: 森口 大督
Camera Assistant: 大隈 拓郎
Video Engineer: 近藤 将司
Video Engineer: 後藤 卓也
Crane Operator: 赤澤 大介 (株式会社ＮＫＬ)
Camera Operator: 江津 千秋 (株式会社ＮＫＬ)
Camera Operator: 牧志 結美 (株式会社ＮＫＬ)
Switcher: 岡崎 邦彦
Lighting: 杓瀬 圭介
Lighting: 長島 右京
Audio: 細田 和明
Audio: 山本 竜太

Behind the scene
Producer: 相原 幸絵（Whatever）
Director / Editor: 織田 聡
Music: ながしまみのり（Whatever）
Mixer: 姥谷 充浩
"Revival Day" is a program that gives people the chance to reunite, just once more, with someone who is no longer in this world. In the program, the reunion between Tetsuro Degawa and his biological mother, who passed away eight years ago, is recreated. Whatever was responsible for planning and technical direction, art direction, and the production of the making-of movie "Behind the scene." ーーー [Creator's Comment] What I paid the most attention to on the art direction side was keeping television-style direction to a minimum, so that viewers could focus on the conversation between Degawa and his mother, Yasuko. For that reason, I proposed an extremely simple set design consisting of only chairs and a monitor. On the technology side, the biggest challenge was the complete lack of reference photos and footage. A few low-resolution printed photos, and a lucky find: about 15 seconds of footage of Degawa and Yasuko appearing together for the only time. There was almost no audio data. Under those circumstances, recreating a person from the past with CG was an extremely difficult task. The CG production process used Autodesk Maya for modeling; VICON + Faceware + IGS + MotionBuilder were integrated and rendered in Unreal Engine; grading was done in DaVinci Resolve + MISTIKA; and compositing was done in Nuke. However, unlike ordinary CG production work, we repeatedly made small adjustments while tracing the family's memories and checked them over and over, gradually bringing Yasuko closer to life. Degawa's brothers and sisters helped us an extraordinary number of times. I would like to take this opportunity to express my sincere gratitude to them. Whatever Producer Yusuke Tominaga https://youtu.be/fu_pANq7hHk

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N NHK(日本放送協会) unverified Planner W Whatever unverified Planner 服 Ryoma Hattori unverified Planner 富 富永勇亮 unverified Planner 竹 Takeshi Takemura unverified Planner 水 水高満 unverified Producer 伊 伊達吉克 unverified Producer 立 Tatsushi Tachibana unverified Producer 出 Akira Deguchi unverified Director 井 Ichiro Ide unverified Video Engineer 杉 Hirokatsu Sugiura unverified Video Engineer 長 Toshikazu Nagae unverified Director 川 川村真司 unverified Creative Director S Saqoosha unverified Technical Adviser な Minori Nagashima unverified Project Manager / Music 高 高谷優偉 unverified Title Designer 東 東方田桂伊 unverified Title Animation 田 田巻源太 unverified Colorist / Compositor 矢 Kimihide Yabe unverified Sound Effect 杉 Makiko Sugiura unverified CGI Designer 竹 Rie Takeshima unverified CGI Designer 渡 Yuki Watanabe unverified CGI Designer 後 Ayumi Goto unverified CGI Product Manager 石 Yuki Ishii unverified CGI Designer 岡 Akira Okamoto unverified CGI Designer 田 田中隆史 unverified CGI Designer 西 Yusei Nishimuta unverified CGI Designer 林 Joji Hayashi unverified Motion Capture 石 Noriko Ishihara unverified Motion Capture 若 若井雅幸 unverified Motion Capture 工 Fumiaki Kudo unverified Motion Capture 大 大淵啓吾 unverified Motion Capture 横 Ryohei Yokoyama unverified Motion Capture 太 Takashi Ota unverified Motion Capture 近 Yuto Kondo unverified Motion Capture 野 野口喬 unverified Camera Operator 島 Akihiro Shima unverified Camera Operator 安 Yasuo Yasuoka unverified Camera Operator 呉 Goh Gyeong-hun unverified Camera Operator 森 Daisuke Moriguchi unverified Camera Operator 大 Takuro Okuma unverified Camera Assistant 近 Masashi Kondo unverified Video Engineer 後 Takuya Goto unverified Video Engineer 赤 赤澤大介 unverified Crane Operator 江 Chiaki Gotsu unverified Camera Operator 牧 牧志結美 unverified Camera Operator 岡 Kunihiko Okazaki unverified Switcher 杓 Keisuke Shakase unverified Lighting 長 Ukyo Nagashima unverified Lighting 細 Kazuaki Hosoda unverified Audio 山 Ryuta Yamamoto unverified Audio 相 相原幸絵 unverified Producer 織 織田聡 unverified Director / Editor 姥 Mitsuhiro Ubaya unverified Mixer

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