Original Animation

A commemorative video for the 70th anniversary of Godzilla’s birth. Using CG imagery, it portrays numerous Godzilla and kaiju from the series coming together to form the 70th anniversary logo.

With the concept of “catch, observe, and release,” this new learning project focuses on exploring with your own body, discovering, catching, and then expanding your interests through what you have caught. Using a smartphone in hand, you explore, catch various prehistoric animals such as dinosaurs, observe them, and build your own collection guidebook. In Dinosaur Forest, dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals live. When you touch an animal, it turns around or runs away. When you use the app’s camera to look at the animals moving through the space, and fire an “observation arrow” at an animal visible in the camera, the arrow flies into the real-world space. When the “observation arrow” hits, the animal disappears from the space and enters your smartphone. Information about the animal you observed is collected in the app’s guidebook. If you swipe a caught animal to a location visible in the app’s camera, it is released and returns to that place. Also, if you throw down an “observation net” at a place you like, you can spread the net at your feet. Working together with people around you, use your body to drive the animals into the “observation net” and catch them; the animals disappear from the space and are collected in the guidebook in the same way. If you swipe a caught animal to a location visible in the app’s camera, it is released and appears at your feet. In the collection guidebook, even for the same animal, the more times you catch it, the more detailed information is added. “Galaxy & teamLab: Catching and Collecting Dinosaur Forest” (Harajuku, Tokyo) Exhibition details: https://www.teamlab.art/jp/e/collecting_dinosaurforest/ Artwork details: https://www.teamlab.art/jp/w/collecting_dinosaurforest/collecting_dinosaurforest/