I combined my 15-year-old self with my present self. A powerful world like the rock bands I admired at 15.

Wander, explore, and discover in a single world without boundaries teamLab Borderless is a “museum without a map” composed of the boundaryless artworks of the art collective teamLab. Boundaryless art leaves the room, moves around, communicates with other works, influences and is influenced by them, and has no boundaries between works, sometimes even blending together. Through such a collection of works, one continuous world is created, connected seamlessly without boundaries. Immerse yourself bodily in boundaryless art, wander through it, explore with a conscious body, and together with others, create and discover a new world.

I aimed to create visuals that, through motion, bring out the energy of the music and design, along with the images from the film footage shot by the director, while making them feel darker and more beautiful, leaving a stronger impression through the composition of each shot.

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.