Masaki Okuda

TIME ON THE PLANET

In one place the sun rises, in another place the sun sets. When a woman's hair grows long, a man shaves off his full beard. The time may be different, but time passes in the same way in every place. The earth turns and the sun rises again... A time signal animation on the theme of "time" created for the digital signage of the Lumine Ikebukuro store. Each of the multiple frames has a structure that loops endlessly.

Find your Yokohama

This commercial film was made as 'Yokohama Prize' at HAG, Handmade Animation Grand Prix. HAG is a pitch competition for young independent animators, gives them chance to make a short animated film or commercial films.

A Woman in a Fashion Building

Desire, delusions and a reality of a woman who came to a fashion building.

A Gum Boy

Nobody in a class loves ‘Kuchao’ who cannot live without. . . gum. When all [his] classmates fly their balloons, he wouldn’t let his go. After school, on his way home, he gets to his own imaginary world with a bubble gum. His balloon turns to be a face and to many things as he chews [his] gum. His imagination doesn’t stop flying. Then comes a bird. . .

Count Down

A promotional video of the exhibition ‘ArtPath 2011’ by Tokyo University of the Arts Musical Creativity and the Environment. The excitement before ArtPath starts.

Uncapturable Ideas

A man is racking his brain at a desk. On his desk there is a tiny man also racking his brain at his desk. The big man remains still without any ideas. The tiny man moves around in vain trying to catch some idea, which is supposed to be inside of him. Both men. . . become desperate and after the daybreak the big man is struck by an idea. . .

Orchestra

The harmony performed by players who drawn by lines metamorphose.

Orchestra

The harmony performed by players who drawn by lines metamorphose.

The Garden of Pleasure

A study of the relationship between movement and music.