Reel 2022

This is an animated research work that deconstructs the everyday visual experience of a “room tour” through the manipulation of perspective. Its approach lies in continuously transforming the perspective by distorting the structure of the entire room, while leaving all objects within the space—furniture and small items—completely still. By representing space itself with motion graphics, the work induces a visual illusion in which stationary objects appear to acquire autonomous movement, blurring the boundary between 2D graphics and 3D spatial perception, and unsettling the viewer’s sense of “what exactly is moving?” in this experimental approach.

We created a new opening video for Fuji TV’s “News JAPAN.” Using an optical illusion-like visual, it expresses the idea that “the way things look changes depending on the perspective from which they are viewed.”

On rough notepaper, a large number of character parts were drawn out (facial parts shaped like the mouth for “a, i, u, e, o,” body parts divided at each joint, etc.), and by combining them as needed, a frenetic animation was created.