An independently produced work. It expresses the state of “my brain died from the summer heat” as a Japanese message, interwoven with rhythmic motion graphics.

A story about putting on too much makeup and ending up with a face that looks like a cake.

This is the second installment in the layer series.

A music video work created for the AI creative contest “Corotech supported by LIVE DAM WAO!” hosted by the Nippon Columbia Group (NCG) on February 21–22, 2026. Starting from my own sense of motion graphics, all motifs were individually generated by AI as video assets for chroma key use, then constructed through compositing and synthesis. Rather than generating everything at once, the video was structurally designed through a process of generating, selecting, placing, and animating each element as separate assets. Within the context of an AI contest, I deliberately chose a time-consuming production method in an effort to imbue the video with “brushstrokes” and “life” that cannot be achieved through one-shot generation. Rather than relying on AI’s generative power alone, this work explores the possibilities of expression through collaboration between AI and humans by selecting, composing, and assigning relationships to the materials through human intent. Instead of presenting AI’s inorganic output as is, it aims to create an emotionally resonant visual expression by reconstructing it through human intervention.