A convenience store in a rural town. Everyone who gathered there liked to drink the same beverage. A strange incident begins to occur in that town, where people disappear, leaving only their clothes behind. The sheriff spots a suspicious man on a full-moon night, but... A music video for Toma Baba’s “PRIME,” combining paper three-dimensional puppetry by Shotaro Kitada with cutout animation by Moji Tsuchiya.

Description: An image video for PAGANI, an eyewear brand based in Italy. We created animation for David Taveras’s poem/story, which depicts a journey of finding a vision and rediscovering oneself after having lost sight of it. Thinking through what kind of animation to pair with the English text was both a very difficult and enjoyable process. The animation was produced not only with paper cutouts, but also by incorporating paper-based 3D forms, prints of live-action footage, light and shadows from a projector, and the intense sunlight of midsummer into the filming process.

Music video for Nakaura Yuri’s “Seishun Ojiisan” Created using a combination of cut-paper and collage techniques

Description: “Scuffin” refers to the lines etched into a bottle through repeated use. A returnable bottle requires the extra step of being returned in order to be used again. This is the story of a bottle journeying around the earth, marked with “scuffin” as proof that someone returned it. A web movie for Pocari Sweat’s returnable bottle. The scenes in which the bottle glows were filmed by shining projector light onto cut-paper artwork.