This work was created for submission to the LUMINE meets ART AWARD. It won a prize in the digital signage category. It is a loop animation of a girl who keeps changing her fashion and mood.

We aimed to create a visual style that blends mechanical animation, making full use of patterns, with traditional hand-drawn animation. Even without facial expressions, a person’s fashion can convey emotion and energy. Clothes chosen by a person of their own free will are not mere decorations; they become part of the body, and there is a sense in which the boundary between fashion and the person becomes increasingly blurred. Fashion, including clothing, accessories, cosmetic surgery, and makeup, seems to lose its boundary with the wearer’s body and mind the more they enjoy wearing it, until it feels like they become that person themselves. We tried to express these ideas through animation.

Lipstick comes in many shades of red, and even the same red can look different depending on the person wearing it, their expression, and the place or situation. This work was created out of my fascination with the idea that makeup and fashion only truly come to life when they are built on the wearer’s own personality and appeal.

Behind every delicious meal lies the lives and lifetimes of many animals, and even so, meat is delicious. Eating delicious food is happiness, and that too is part of our lives and of living itself.