Second Prize, Animation Division -TOMOSHIBI- :: Hosei University

This work is a full CG motion graphics piece. Based on the theme of "spreading light from Japan to a world depressed by the Corona Vortex," the work was created with a Japanese tone, referencing lantern festivals in Japan and overseas.

As the title "Lanterns -TOMOSHIBI-" suggests, this work is a motion graphics piece that mainly uses lanterns. In the scene where the lanterns are lit up step by step following the lighting of the character for "light" at the beginning, I expressed the spread of light as I wrote in the abstract. After the light spreads and the intro finishes, the image changes to one of many lanterns floating on the surface of the water. In this scene, a Japanese-style room to express Japanese harmony and a fantastic space with many lanterns flying around it were expressed. Also, "Light is something that will eventually disappear." To express this, in the outro, the lanterns are extinguished in order. However, in order to suggest that light can be lit again even after it goes out, we composed the final scene of the piece to lead into the introduction. In addition, this work is motion graphics, and I used a lot of easing in the camera motion, and in addition, I added movement to the figures and text to the extent that the CG would not be hazy.

I modeled all the Japanese-style rooms and lanterns myself using Blender. In Blender, I used the renderer to de-noise and the compositor to add glare to diffuse the light. The camera motion was also added in Blender. After Effects was used to apply color correction and motion blur to the entire screen, and AviUtl was used to add motion and sound to the text and figures.

The expression of "the spread of light" in the expression concept of the work in question matches the concept well. It is difficult to match the purpose of the production with its outcome, and I believe that good results were derived from the many prototypes. The beautifully expressed movement of the light, including the shimmering, floating, rising, diffusing and converging in space, is beautifully expressed, and the quiet expression combined with the world view created by the entire work is superb. We evaluated this work as having an extremely high degree of perfection in terms of overall expression.