In the music video for PAPERMOON by higma + Hoshimiya Toto, I designed and captured the virtual space. By reconstructing 3D models photogrammetrically captured from locations all across Japan, from Hokkaido to Kagoshima, I created a space where dreams and reality intermingle. The entire video, including the outdoor scenes, was filmed while wearing a VR headset.

Inspired by the song’s theme of “the grown-up ‘I’ remembering ‘you’ in memories that have already slipped away and seem about to disappear,” I expanded on that idea and created this work with the aim of resonating with the generation born in the 2000s, who are only just becoming adults. While incorporating the technique of compositing animation onto footage shot with a 3DS, I also mixed in contemporary graphic expressions and footage shot with a cinema camera, in order to convey the difference between the way the world looks in childhood and in the early twenties.

One morning, the cyborg girl Pulse was awakened by a phone call from her boss, Mr. Higekuma. It seems that a large number of enemies had appeared in the city. Pulse, who works part-time in the Good Deeds Department, heads out into the city with a Game Boy in hand.

A short movie for social media for ".ENDRECHERI." "IZONE BEAT." This five-part series warns about people becoming “social zombies” due to social media addiction, which is also a theme of the song.