Promotional video for the Fall/Winter 2024 products of BOKURA WORKS, a workwear brand for young people.

Pony Canyon’s new project, PRELUDERS The HERO LICENSE music video, composed by Masayoshi Oishi Character designs by POKImari. It was produced by combining animated drawings, illustrations, and motion graphics.

From the song, I felt a summer-ambience kind of vibe and envisioned something ambient and electronic, so I wanted to make the visuals feel cool and refreshing. Although the meaning of the scenes themselves is abstract, I aligned the visuals with the beat and repeated the processes of editing and creating material to match the worldview of the lyrics, aiming for something that felt cohesively connected overall. For the graphic production and compositing (mainly in Blender, with a little final work in AE as well), I kept searching for something that matched the worldview and was pleasant to watch. During the material creation stage, I tried many different things with compositing in Blender, experimenting through trial and error, and connected various nodes together so that, even within abstraction, it would become something attractive and evocative. I did a lot of experimenting.

[Work Overview] Mimi, a girl, gets a pimple on her cheek. Afraid that she is maturing faster than the other girls, she is treated as though she does not exist. This work depicts the unstable emotions that arise within a group and the release from them, using the metamorphosis from a chrysalis into a butterfly as a metaphor. Along with its warm colors and brushwork, it employs looped footage and linear camera movement to create an effect that makes painted backdrops seem to move. [Synposis] MIMI gets her first pimple. She's afraid of being different from the other girls. Uncomfortable around people who aren't like her, she starts imitating the girls around her.