Web video of radio calisthenics with Pokémon As the radio calisthenics plays, the Pokémon’s magic draws pictures across the school building. The childlike illustrations that appear were created in Procreate, and the compositing was done while retouching the school building so as not to spoil the children’s dreams.

Opening sequence for the TV anime TRIGUN STARGAZE. The song is by ano. While using anime scenes from the TV series itself, the piece takes an approach of resampling the main story within the opening’s runtime through motion graphics and 3DCG. By replacing the backgrounds of the series footage during editing, the scenes were also made to appear in a different way. The design was handled by .MP, and the 3DCG was handled by Kirari Lab, led by Shunsuke Ohyama, as well as yonayona graphics. The motion graphics were handled by the A4A team, led by Kana Tatematsu, Kaito Mochida, and Reoru.

I directed animation for the first time after having only ever made independent animations before. In independent production, data management is much looser, there’s no need to separate in-between drawings from key drawings, and there’s no need to give instructions to anyone, but commercial animation doesn’t work that way, so it was tough. There were at least three major accidents, and I ended up drawing a huge amount of layout, key animation, in-between animation, and backgrounds. In the end, I got heavily involved in every stage except the photography, and for the month leading up to the deadline—34 days—I worked every day for 13 hours while talking on the phone with the art director, making it feel like the three of us, including the photography director, were producing an independent animation. Because my memories of my first time as director were like this, it has become a trauma.

Description: - Synopsis The everyday lives of delivery robots are suddenly transformed by a computer virus. The protagonist, an outdated delivery robot, desperately tries to escape from the zombies... - Overview An independently produced animation. While imagining it as a pilot film for a short animated series, I created it as a complete short animation, using the conventions of zombie films to explore a science-fiction worldview. On the technical side, it also had the theme of producing a film with a game engine. https://vimeo.com/404486903