Shuji Hirai’s showreel. His distinctive production style flexibly employs a wide range of tools, including compositing, motion design, 3D modeling, and expression in interactive environments using game engines.

The work has a rough overall production outline, but its finer details were not fully worked out. It was created by placing its trust in chance, generated impulsively in the way dreams emerge when we sleep. The work uses AI image generation and glitch effects created by corrupting data. In particular, because AI still lacks reliable reproducibility in image generation, it was used to express the incomprehensible worldview one experiences in dreams.

Music video for “Antinomy,” a song by amazarashi, which serves as the ending theme for the anime NieR:Automata Ver1.1a. Conceived and produced by Yoko Taro, the director of the NieR series, it is a 15-minute “puppet play” that serves as a spin-off of the NieR story. I was responsible for the CG in the final shot.

Depicting the process from an inhuman creature to the birth of a human being