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Support Project for Pilot Animation
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The "Creator's World Support Project for Pilot Animation" launched as a new project at the "Tokyo International Anime Festival 2010 autumn" held by the Association of Japanese Animations is a project to support top creators in Japan who've been engaged in producing original animations to produce pilot works with a view to promoting their talents and products.
The Outlines and Objectives of the Project
All the creators who have once participated in the Creator's World are entitled to apply, and through the judgment process, the top four creators were selected to produce a pilot work which appeals their talents and works.
The creators will show their finished pilot works at the Tokyo International Anime Festival 2011 autumn which will be held in October 2011, and will also distribute their DVDs and appeal their works with a view to acquiring a collaborator for commercialization and advancing their professional career.
For the project this year:
♦ Kazuya Ichikawa "Domerica - the Monster"
♦ Studio-RF / RoMANOV HiGA "kanai"
♦ French curve / Tetsuro Kodama "INTERIOR"
♦ Kenji Muto / SUGARLESS FACTORY / honesuta "Fossil Thief and Dinosaur Stones"
Four works by four individuals/groups have been selected, and their finished pilots will be released and promoted at the site of the Tokyo International Anime Festival 2010 autumn.
Kazuya Ichikawa
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■Catch Copy: I wanted to make a work that I can proudly call my own. |
©kazuya ichikawa
©kazuya ichikawa
Studio-RF / ROMANoV HIGA
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©ROMANoV Film Public showing of the pilot work is finished. |
■Catch Copy: The leader of the new generation who will be the driving force of animations dispatched from Japan. ■Title of the Work: "kanai" ◊The Aim/Theme Planned A robot animation staged in Okinawa. A family movie depicting children's adventures. ◊The Outlines of the Work A delightful robot action! A story of a boy and a girl who grow up vigorously and soundly in Okinawa. ■Main Technique: 3D / 2D ■Field of Work: Animation ■Profile: My 3DCG animation made in 1997, "ONEDAY, SOMEGIRL," won the Grand Prix at the 9th DoGA CGA Contest. Its stylish image and gun action were rated highly, and since then I've taken an active part in production as a freelance CG creator. Having established a limited liability company, Studio-RF, in 2007, we plan to start a revolution in the CG animation industry in the future. While we undertook the direction of a game "GUNGRAVE" and OVA "The Police Tank Corps, TANK S.W.A.T.01" which was made based on a comic "DOMINION" originally drawn by Masamune Shirow, we've been actively engaged in the production of our original works such as "URDA" and "CATBLUE:DYNAMITE." ■PR Comment: We at Studio-RF believe that "action movies" are the supreme entertainment which crosses the border and languages to astonish and delight people's mind, and we are skillful at directing and producing action scenes. It is our belief to create visual images superior in quality that give you a surprise and touch your mind, and we will present you with our visual works that can be enjoyed by as large audience as possible. ■URL : http://studio-rf.com/ |
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©ROMANoV Film
French curve/Tetsuro Kodama
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©kodama Public showing of the pilot work is finished. |
■Catch Copy: Converting familiar happenings into a work! ■The Title of the Work: "INTERIOR" ◊The Aim Planned While the Japanese animation industry follows a reversionary path and suffers from Galapagos Syndrome, new means of expression have been sought after in Japan, which I want to dispatch from Japan to the world. As the 3D animations have been restored, I hope to establish a new style of expression making good use of the distinctive features of the Japanese animation. ◊Theme Efforts, dreams, hopes, goals and solitude that one must endure to fulfill a dream. Three fellows who never lose courage keep searching for something delightful. ◊The Outline of the Work A poor artist, Sam, a poor playwriter, Borman and his friend, Greg. A thing they had in common was that they all had no money. So, the three fellows decided to enter a contest with their work to win the prize money. But, since they could not afford the cost for delivery, they were going to bring the work by themselves to the contest held at a distant place! Now, their long, poor but joyful journey started…. ■Most Skillful Techniques: 3D / 2D ■Field of Work: Animation / Character / Background arts/settings ■Profile: Born in 1978 in Oita. When I was a schoolboy I watched an animation movie "AKIRA," and since then I started to take an interest in the field of visual works. "On Your Mark," one of the works by Ghibli, and "Mt. Head" by Koji Yamamura made a deep impression on my mind, and I started to produce short films. I am currently engaged mainly in producing animations, background arts and settings. In 2010, Produced animation "Hoshi Shinichi Short Short / Frozen Time" on NHK Art Director of a theater version animation "Yasai no Yosei 3D"(vegetable fairies) CG Director of a theater version animation "Mardock Scramble" Director of a theater version animation "the bears' school ■PR Comment: I set much value on my message and an objective mentality in my visual works. By communicating a message about the things I ordinarily think of and feel, I will be happy if the message arouses the viewers' sympathy and affect them in any way. ■URL : http://kodama-kodama.com |
©kodama
©kodama
Kenji Muto/ SUGARLESS FACTORY/ honesuta
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©2010Kenji Muto/SUGARLESS FACTORY Public showing of the pilot work is finished. |
■Catch Copy: A Group of Creative Directors ■The Title of the Work: "Fossil Thief and the Dinosaur Stones" ◊The Aim/Theme Planned We aim to produce "ideal" animation works that can be enjoyed by children. "Fossil romanticism" x "Search for a mother" x "Friendship with animals"= "New Project" Narrowing the target to schoolchildren (the third and fourth grades), it is a work with "family, " an issue of the present day, as a theme. ◊The Outlines of the Work At the bottom of the Minazo Lake, there existed one of the twenty-four wards of Tokyo, an illusive underwater city, "Minazoko-Ward"!? A twelve-year-old boy, Utah, and his buddy, a fossil Gobi. To chase a fossil thief the two of them began a journey in the vast underwater world to find a "stolen dinosaur stone." It is a dinosaur adventure in a new sensuous impression inspired by "A Journey to the Center of the Earth" by Jules Verne and "The Lost World" by Conan Doyle. ■Main Technique: 2D / 3D / FLASH ■Field of Work: Animation / Planning, Directing and Designing Characters ■Profile: In 2002 graduated from the Asagaya College of Art and Design and the Kyoto University of Art and Design. Having worked at an ad designing company, became independent and worked as an animation director and character designer. 2010 The 9th Tokyo Anime Award / Tokyo Anime Culture Award 2010 Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia, Program to promote Japanese directors: NEO Japan / Selected Prize 2010 International Animation Festival Hiroshima, Animation for Children / Selected Prize And many others ■PR Comment: We have a production structure and direction competence, which are flexible enough to suit your schedule and budget. We also have the designing and planning ability full of originality. We always keep in mind to "produce after racking our brains." ■URL : http://www1.parkcity.ne.jp/sugaress/ |
©Kenji Muto
©Kenji Muto