This is a small bakery in town. One night, the owner, Riku, kneads the dough as usual, lets it rest, and then finishes work and leaves. Clatter, clatter... Suddenly, an unsettling sound echoes through the shop. A thief has slipped inside and is picking the register lock. The cream bun dough, left to rest in the refrigerator, is startled awake by the sound and bursts into tears, crying, “Waaah!” And that cry is heard by the thief... a close call!? Will the “baby buns” be able to get through this crisis...?

A teaser video and teaser visual for the completely original 3DCG animation “URAHARA,” with Ryosuke Kamide serving as the original creator, screenwriter, and director, and Kanta Mochida handling direction, visuals, and design. A story about the changing city, the soil being covered over, the fungi being killed off, and the humans who are allowed to live on. It is about the many pangs of conscience borne by humans who have set out running toward a dystopia.

Description: The award winners of the 10th New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival are portrayed as crocodiles, one of the apex predators at the top of the ecological pyramid, roaming freely across the imaginary playground of “expression.” The work was created by extensively using the VR modeling software “shapelab,” while moving across a variety of tools. https://shapelabvr.com/artist-showcase-kanta-mochida/

People have evolved by running. Endless plains, mountains and waters teeming with life, and silver snow-capped ridges— No matter how harsh the field may be, if we can imagine a course there, we can surely run it to the end. Imagination will light the way to paths yet unseen, and illuminate the direction humanity should take.