At the music submission event “VocaDuo2024,” I was in charge of video production for the team “America Executive Committee.” I aimed to create a sequence of dreamlike, ambiguous, and outlandish shots that unfold in a space as vast and desolate as night.

“Electric Girl” is an animated work depicting the everyday life of the protagonist with her anthropomorphized refrigerator at home. In the ending animation, to express the idea that quiet happiness can be found in the small events of everyday life, motifs were borrowed from the poem, “In spring, there are flowers; in autumn, the moon; in summer, cool breezes; in winter, snow. If there are no trivial matters weighing on one’s mind, then these are the best times in life,” and the changing seasons were portrayed. In addition, alongside the use of ink and watercolor in the artwork, imagery of stickers and stamps often used when collaging a planner was incorporated, in an attempt to convey the feeling that “precious days were carefully recorded.”

Life is business...

From the song, I felt a summer-ambience kind of vibe and envisioned something ambient and electronic, so I wanted to make the visuals feel cool and refreshing. Although the meaning of the scenes themselves is abstract, I aligned the visuals with the beat and repeated the processes of editing and creating material to match the worldview of the lyrics, aiming for something that felt cohesively connected overall. For the graphic production and compositing (mainly in Blender, with a little final work in AE as well), I kept searching for something that matched the worldview and was pleasant to watch. During the material creation stage, I tried many different things with compositing in Blender, experimenting through trial and error, and connected various nodes together so that, even within abstraction, it would become something attractive and evocative. I did a lot of experimenting.