JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL EXHIBITION OF MANGA AND SCREENING PROGRAMS

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 ）

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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