Commentary: When I thought about creating and developing an original character, “Denne-chan, the rice-planting gal,” I wanted to make it into a game about planting rice. Since making an actual game was beyond my current abilities, I recreated it with pixel-art animation and chiptune music.

This is a compilation of the series of videos created for UNIQLO in-store signage.

Method: Stop motion I created this piece while sharing backgrounds and characters with Moji Tsuchiya, each of us imitating the other’s characters. Tsuchiya created the basic storyboard, and we worked out the overall feel of the film by sharing the footage as it was completed. There is a Go scene in the video, and it felt like we were making it while watching each other’s moves, as though I were playing Go with Tsuchiya.

We were responsible for the direction, design, and editing of the concept movie for “HENNGE One,” a service provided by HENNGE Inc. HENNGE One is the No. 1 cloud security service in Japan, helping organizations improve productivity. By actively adopting cutting-edge technologies and transforming itself, it drives change in the world. We expressed this sense of innovation through modern, bold graphics, and conveyed its strong ability to adapt to changing times with fast-paced, impactful animation.