EU-JP Animation Residency

Masaさんの訥々としながらも実験映像への愛のある語り、Sumitoさんの、住む土地柄や海外での経験を経てたからこその落ち着いた洞察と身体知に基づく語り（自分がひどく物質主義的でモダニズムに汚染されたように感じられる）、ほなみさんのチャームさとふとした瞬間に物凄くクリティカルな意見を投げかけるあのギャップ、しのぶさんの土着性やコマ撮りのあり方（real material）への深い興味と、コミッションだろうとレジデンスだろうと自身のスタイルを貫くかっこよさ、baku89.iconは言葉に言い尽くせないほど敬愛と友情のようなものを感じてるんだけど、このクソデカ感情は一方的なものなんだろうな…とも思う

ほなみさんはある種の「山村一派」として、幸さんとかと同じく以前から羨ましいというかコンプレックスを抱いていた先輩作家だけど、今回一番印象が変わったかも　こんなに面白くてかつ鋭い人なんだって　正直創風のときに聞きたかった（主にアカデミックな活動と制作の両立に関する）質問について、良くない更問いというか彼女自身の専門領域への踏み込み方をしてしまったと思っていて、凄く後悔している　autobiographicalなアプローチと、practical doctorへの懐疑などのことを聞きたかったんだけど、本当に良くなかった　もっといろんなことを勉強するべきだった

いつもまだまだ話し足りないなって寂しい気持ちで帰路につく　既にすごく寂しい

Annecy、行きの飛行機がbaku89.iconだけ違うものになりそうなのが悲しい

映画祭とかでアニメーション作家同士落書きを交換し合う文化、何かいつもすごく感動する（鮭の稚魚しか描けないけど）

キュレーター、コーディネーター陣の人たちにも何か感激しまくってた

Koyoさんの音楽好きなところとか

... Could be.

So, how long did you end up staying at the bar?

Is my hair sticking up?

Do I have bedhead?

It’s not like I’m particularly fixated on the salmon motif or anything.

Does anyone have plans for dinner tonight?

I already kinda miss you.

scroll painting

inertial frame of reference

hypnotic

Could you give me a few examples?

I’m really divided between going to go there or not.

How packed is there?

ha message crosses

I overslept

I totally slept in

Not that S V

I love doing animation. Not that I’m any good at it, though.

She’s always so calm. Not that I’m complaining or anything.

It felt familiar — not that I’d ever been there before.

off

Design: The spacing in this logo feels off.

Behavior: Are you okay? You seem a bit off today.

Smell: This milk smells off. Better not drink it.

Logic: His explaination sounded a little off to me.

Alighment: My camera's focus is slightly off.

Conversely, on is often used in contrast to mean that something feels right or is working properly.

my pleasure

you're welcome

not at all

hit the nail on the head

Doshisha has always given me the impression of being a university for the upper class — I think even some members of the imperial family studied there.

Laura’s calling you, Sander!

I just lost in English, so don't tease me lol

The bottle’s almost empty.

You guys go ahead — I’ll come downstairs in a bit.

Go easy on yourself.

No need to overdo it.

Take it easy, okay?

but in the meantime, ....

You might think this way I talk is impressive, but honestly, I’m just winging it.

but I'm totally making it up as I go.

it's all imrov.

to-be master

parent-to-be

..., that's the thing

There are only few people who regularly see short films

Is there any tip or trick?

It's been 20 yrs since

back in the day

waste of power

in nature

second nature

Pitch, Online Meetings, Q&A Session

We don't necessarily have to be bound by the sixteen by nine (16:9) format.

working title / tentative title

That's really good question, yet...

I dunno that yet

I really have to experiment with

innocent question

as I understood

having seeing that ....

副島しのぶ

suddenly the image came out

I think the sound isn't coming out...

I asked, just to know.

= Just to confirm, ...

remember this by

at this point, so far, at present, for now, as of now/today, currently

The schedule is still pending

We’re still working out the schedule — I’ll let you know once it’s settled.

Which coffee do you usually go for?

I can’t keep blaming Japan’s outdated English education forever — it’s ultimately up to me to put in the effort.

When it comes to parenting, there’s ultimately no reproducibility — everything depends on each individual child and situation.

There’s no one-size-fits-all in parenting — it all comes down to each unique case.

I can’t imagine how a documentary could possibly work without subtitles or narration.

I honestly don’t see how a documentary can hold together without either subtitles or narration.

It’s hard to imagine a documentary functioning at all without subtitles or a narrator.

What were you doing after that?

on a whim

It's just a fantasy, but…

“It’s just a daydream, but…”

“It might be a bit far-fetched, but…”

“It’s just a thought I’ve had, but…”

“Maybe it’s wishful thinking, but…”

Humanities, the things that might related to 福田ぺろ-san

(cultural) anthropology

Claude Lévi-Strauss used group theory—specifically concepts from mathematical symmetry and permutation groups—to analyze kinship systems and mythological structures. He treated kinship relations (like who can marry whom) as structured transformations, and used algebraic models to show how different societies could be variations of an underlying system.

incest taboo

Orality and Literacy

Ong’s orality-literacy binary has been criticized as too rigid; later research shows that literacy’s cognitive effects stem more from schooling than writing itself, and that orality and literacy exist on a fluid continuum shaped by context

structuralism

20th-century French philosophy

zone out, space out

On a whim

So I went ahead and built a prototype — because, you know, seeing is believing.

Critique, Irony

My anger toward Adobe and proprietary software is always grounded in the concrete realities of how I’m actually making something — not in vague, abstract stuff like existential doubts, identity crisis, social good, or conviviality.

I don't want any commitment for such promotion of national prestige.

So I have kinda ambivalent feeling toward participating in this program.

But now I'm a bit relieved and much more relaxed cuz everyone is.....

I was just thinking something similar myself.

I'm probably feeling down inside about not being able to speak the language well,

but I don't wanna make others feel awkward,

so I act like I'm confident.

But once I get back to my room, the exhausion suddendly hit me all at once.

She's just roaming around the shared space in nothing but a towel after showering, and I dunno where to look

Social issues

urban area / rural area

It could also be said like the city / the countryside

To be honest, I was more or less internalizing such gender biases.

下ネタ: black humor

I'm a bit less comfortable with such black/blue humor.

You know, we're kinda woke, for better or worse.

Like it or not, we're pretty woke, aren't we?

About alchol, club culture, and drag

I'm not into flashy/cheesy party clubs.

I don't like those showy mainstream clubs.

I also don't like losing control with alcohol and stuff

I don't like getting carried away with drinking either.

Instead, I prefer more underground deep house scenes.

I'm lightweight / I get drunk easily

micro-dosing

Ways to express work with some more nuances

weird charm

uncanny feeling

absurd

That was so intense that I couldn't think of anything.

Do you know much about Cursor?

Are you familiar with Cursor?

an im like

これは日本語英語かもしれないんだけど、

i guess this might be Japanglish

im not sure if this is proper English

directly translated into ....

Lost in English

The Japanese have become more tolerant of tattoos recently.

I'd like to go to the concert straight from the city

Manly

permanent exhibition

Could you step aside, please?

Where are we heading now?

one-stroke drawing

Is it free time now?

I devoted myself to the study of languages.

I haven't decided what to play yet.

please ask yourself — did it really help?

back then ...

I went independent after starting my career at a company as a new graduate.

際どい: edgy

bumpkin (n): 芋い人

..., that's the thing

that being said,

clumsy

whatsoever: emphatic form of "whatever" used to stress a negative statement.

simiar to "at all" or "in any way"

e.g., I have no idea whatsoever

It adds emphasis to the absense of something

Could you elaborate a bit more on your intention?

Explaining Japanese culture

Shochu is a traditional Japanese distilled spirit, typically made from ingredients like barley, sweet potatoes, or rice.

It usually has an alcohol content of around 25%.

It is a shrine that enshrines a fox deity

Buddhism

school = 宗派

そば　buckwheat

大根おろし grated raddish

a bit spicy

Ask about works each other

Whan was this released?

When was this made?

Do you know when this was made?

How long did it take to create this animation?

Degree, academic backgrounds

What is your major

He's still an undergrad.

I don’t even have a bachelor’s degree because I dropped out of college.

I'd like to complete a master's degree someday.

She's a Ph.D. candidate.

Tehy're all Ph.D. holders.

She graduated from RCA.

in the sense that

like I mentioned in the zoom chat

It’s fair to say that, to some extent, we've been getting by thanks to Expo related capitals.

I asked him about the schedule via email.

dedicated to

paradoxically

consecutive translation / simultaneous translation

marionette

deterministic / determinism

Lev Manovich “The Language of New Media”

the suffix of his name “-ich” might be Slavic patronym

Bento

bamboo shoot / bamboo sprout

food boiled in soy sauce (佃煮)

Tools defines the expression space

Sentences I might say during the residency

Mind if I go grab my stuff real quick?

Do you know what’s planned next?

Have you come up with any ideas?

What are we doing after this?

Just to confirm, it’s fine if I don’t wear formal clothes, right?

グダグダを仕切り直す

...but yeah, where was I?

...wait, that's totally off-topic...

Getting back to what we were saying, ...

Greetings

(at the reception in the pavilion):

(at more casual situation)

Hi everyone...

I'm

a bit nervous, to be honest

a little nervous

Even in Japanese / even in my own language

I'm not great at speaking in front of people

I'm not exactly a natural speaker

so...

yeah.

bear with me.

so please go easy on me

Born

I was raised in Hokkaido, the northen island of Japan, and now live in Tokyo.

oh, same hometown as Masa and Sumito, btw

Fields

mainly work in motion grahpics, things like generative art, stop-motion animation, CGI, web design, and sometimes a bit of physical computing or installation stuff.

I'm not good at drawing, though.

I might be the only animation artist here who’s not coming from a hand-drawn background.

Education

I studied moving image art and new media art at Musashino Art University, but I ended up dropping out

Since then, I've been working as a video director and motion designer across both commertial and indie projects.

I haven't had much connection with the animation festival scene.

so I’ve always felt like a bit of an outsider to the independent animation scene.

This is my first time joining an artist residency as an animation artist

though I did attend a digital art residency called the School for Poetic Computation back in 2016. The name sounds kind of funny, I know.

Relation with the expo

I was briefly involved in the Expo bid project around 2016

I worked on some motion graphics for it.

On one hand, I really appreciate how projects like that can bring funding into arts and culture.

But at the same time, it had elements of national branding and was tied to efforts around IR promotion, which left me with some ambivalent feelings that I still carry.

But anyway, I’m really grateful to everyone who made this program happen.

Influences

deeply influenced by experimental films and music videos.

Approach / Philosophy

I like building tools as part of the creative process

I often take a tool-making approach to my work

meaning I develop custom software, rigs, or workflows

when existing ones don’t quite fit.

when off-the-shelf ones fall short.

when existing solutions don’t really fit the needs of the project.

I’m deeply inspired by hacker culture and open-source thinking.

More recently, I’ve been exploring how interfaces and tools shape creative practice, which led me to become interested in Human-Computer Interaction as a research field.

Appreciation at the end

as I said, I'm mainly someone who works with computer animation, and I've always admired artists who create hand-drawn animation, I'm both surprised and deeply honored to be part of this residency.

Explaining my works

Olga Bell / ATA

This video was a remote collaboration between Olga Bell and me.

Brooklyn-based musician, Olga Bell.

also a partner of Nicholas Felton, who's famous at data viz

once involved in designing Facebook's tmeline

The core of this piece lies in the uncanny feeling that emerges when our depth perception of us is betrayed

when something that should appear recessed pops out, and what seems to protrude is actually sunken.

I wanted to turn that perceptual confusion into a visual experience.

imai / Fly ft. Kaho Nakamura, 79

Thank you for watching.

This piece was created during a summer when I returned to my hometown

seeking a break from client work / paid work.

I crafted a stop-motion animation featuring Japanese rice cakes

objects I find comforting and nostalgic

set in my grandparents’ house

where I grew up

which is also where I spent my childhood.

To bring a fresh perspective to traditional stop-motion,

I developed a unique system that integrates room-tracking system for VR with stop-motion software.

as you can see, the camera consta

This project reflects my ongoing exploration of blending physical and digital techniques to create emotionally resonant visuals. I hope it offered you a new way to experience motion and storytelling.