I designed and produced the opening title for Dokidoki! Ensemble Stars Seminar. The video was designed to blend school cram-class-themed elements with the world of Ensemble Stars!!, while evoking a sense of excitement and anticipation.

This film is adapted from “Muō no Rigyo” from “Ugetsu Monogatari” by Akinari Ueda, a magical realist tale written in Japan’s Edo period, also known as the source story for “Ugetsu,” the film by Kenji Mizoguchi. I paradoxically emphasized the subtle “kai’i (怪異)”—a Japanese word indicating something mysterious, strange, eerie, and sometimes dangerous—by reconstructing the storyline to make it rational and interpretable. I used photogrammetry to obtain its distinctive bumpy texture and create the strange scenery of a dream. By adapting the story of “Muō no Rigyo,” one of the tales in Ueda Akinari’s “Ugetsu Monogatari,” and using photogrammetry to render it as a 3D animation, I created this work. By extensively altering the uncanny tale of irrational events so that it could be interpreted as rationally as possible, I attempted to paradoxically present the remnants of contemporary mystery that still could not be fully filtered out. In addition, by using 3D models with distinctive textures obtained through photogrammetry, a somewhat imperfect technique that is weak in handling reflections, transparency, and motion, I attempted to create an eerie, dreamlike scene. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Original animation Mr. Neko, an animation director, and his assistant Nezukun work together making animations, but their work never seems to go as smoothly as they’d like. This animation depicts the everyday lives of Mr. Neko and Nezukun, with Mr. Neko, an animation creator, modeled on the artist himself. New works are being posted regularly on X.