The Japan Media Arts Festival Animated short – Hand Drawing an Eternal World –

November 15,2013

Looking back at past prize winners at the Japan Media Arts Festival, one group of works stands out in particular for their sheer number – cartoons hand-drawn painstakingly frame by frame as a dedicated crystallization of the creator’s guiding concept to produce unique, incomparable visual worlds of infinite possibilities.
Prof. Mitsuko OKAMOTO(Professor, Department of Animation, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan )

 

ArrayMt. Head / YAMAMURA Koji [Japan]
Excellence Award, Animation Division 2003   10’00”
© Koji Yamamura / Yamamura Animation, Inc.

ArrayIn a pig's eye / WADA Atsushi [Japan]
Excellence Award, Animation Division 2011   10’10”
© Atsushi Wada / Tokyo University of the Arts

ArrayANIMA / HOTCHI Kazuhiro [Japan]
Excellence Award, Art Division 2006   3’42”
© HOTCHI Kazuhiro

ArrayA Child's Metaphsysics / YAMAMURA Koji [Japan]
Excellence Award, Animation Division 2009   5’08”
© Yamamura Animation, Inc.

ArrayA GUM BOY / OKUDA Masaki [Japan]
Jury Selection, Animation Division 2011   3’48”
© 2010 Masaki Okurda / Tokyo University of the arts

ArrayANIMAL DANCE / OKAWARA Ryo [Japan]
Encouragement Prize, Animation Division 2010   5’10”
© Ryo Okawara

Arrayushi-nichi / ICHINOSE Hiroco [Japan]
Encouragement Prize, Animation Division 2008   9’09”
© Ichinose Hiroco

ArrayOchestra / OKUDA Masaki, OGAWA Yutaro, OKAWARA Ryo [Japan]
Jury Selection, Animation Division 2009   6’38”
© Masaki Okuda, Yutaro Ogawa, Ryo Okawara

ArrayScripta volant / ORIKASA Ryo [Japan]
Jury Selection, Animation Division 2012   13’17”
© Ryo Orikasa / Tokyo University of the Arts

ArrayGooguri Googuri i / MISUMI Yoshiko [Japan]
Jury Selection, Animation Division 2011   8’22”
© Yoshiko Misumi / Tokyo University of the Arts

ArrayMuybridge's strings / YAMAMURA Koji [Japan]
Excellence Award, Animation Division 2012   12’39”
© 2011 National Film Board of Canada / NHK / Polygon Pictures

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