We produced the opening video used for the 2022 VALORANT Champions Tour Challengers Japan Stage 2 – Playoff Finals, the official tournament for the tactical FPS game VALORANT, held at Saitama Super Arena. With Japanese teams achieving success on the world stage and the first offline tournament with a live audience being held, we aimed to create a work that evokes the “dawn” of Japan’s esports scene. In addition, drawing from “time,” an important element within VALORANT, we built anticipation for the start of the event with a countdown timer modeled after the in-game UI. By using footage and audio from past tournaments in chronological order, the piece suggests that time is gradually moving toward the present. As for the sound design, because this was a shooting game filled with intense exchanges and a large-scale offline tournament realized after overcoming the chaos of the COVID-19 pandemic, we placed greater emphasis than usual on aggressive sounds. Since this was the deciding match to determine Japan’s representative team, we incorporated chords that evoke a sense of Japanese harmony, as well as sounds sampled from instruments of gagaku, traditional Japanese court music.

Everything is always changing. What was taken for granted until yesterday changes into something entirely different. An abstract animation depicting impermanence through printmaking techniques.

I was responsible for the direction and production of GO OFF // 2025 VALORANT Game Changers Championship Hype Film - ft. M.I.A by KATSEYE.

Total length 25 meters! For the video for Shibuya Station Big Signage Premium, KOO-KI’s Haraguchi and Kai handled editing and direction under the planning and production supervision of Ashitano Shikaku. Because of the enormous frame size, they paid close attention to even the smallest movements so that the direction would not feel overly broad.