2009 TokyoWHEN:Saturday, May 30, 2009 This event has passed. WHERE:Club Womb JUDGES:![]() CHRISTOPHE DEFAYE Christophe Defaye was born in 1968. In 1995 he graduated from Bordeaux School of Architecture. In 2000, after 5 years of freelance works on architecture, landscape design and 3D visualization, he co-founded AOKI, an animation & 3D SFX creative studio, working there as art director. Next year, he moved to Japan to lead the Tokyo branch of AOKI studio. ![]() ISAO NISHIGORI Nishigori-san got his start in ‘95 as a VJ on MTV Japan, bringing an early taste of CG to the hungry masses. Since then, his work received awards from Siggraph, New York Film Festival, Promax&BDA, Anima Mundi, ACIDMAN, Japan’s Culture Ministry and more. Commercial pieces include works for Panasonic, Seiko, Japan’s public broadcaster NHK, as well as visual design at Tokyo Dome, the country’s largest baseball stadium, and the who’s who of Japanese music scene Kohaku Uta Gassen. He is currently affiliated with P.I.C.S creative productions company, a former unit of MTV Japan. ![]() SHUHEI MORITA Shuhei Morita’s bio reads like the brief history of 3DCG invasion into Japanese animation establishment. After helping found Kamikaze Douga in 1999, Morita-san worked with Studio 4℃ in developing cel-shading techniques used to make three-dimensional images appear like hand-drawn art. In 2003 he founded YAMATOWORKS. His debut work “Kakurenbo” reaped awards from Tokyo International Anime Fair, Canada’s Fantasia and Japan’s Culture Ministry and led to his current work as a director on the Freedom Project. ![]() TOMOYUKI SUGIYAMA Whether battling Japanese bureaucracy for recognition of digital arts as college-worthy curriculum, or working through countless forums, associations and councils, or simply equipping classrooms with refrigerators for midnight oil-burning students, Sugiyama-san is a tireless champion of CG in Japan. He founded Digital Hollywood in 1994, after returning from a 3-year tenure at MIT’s Media Lab armed with a firm vision of a networked digital society. The school, now a certified university, is a major source of CG talent for Japan’s creative industry. TOKYO TEAM:![]() PASHA ALPEYEV ![]() KENTARO KATO Kentaro also serves as one of our Design Ambassadors for Cut&Paste Tokyo. |
THE 3D DESIGNSTOKYO 3D DESIGN CONTESTANTS![]() AKIHISA NAKATANI Works mostly in sports product design, graphics and illustration with a specialty in snowboard products and footwear. myColor myIdea Akihisa Nakatani ![]() MR. SHADOW Top secret. ![]() MAHIRO ENDO Endo's creative path has taken him from a vocational school to a design studio where he created OP and music clips for television programs, followed by a series of jobs at major Japanese game software houses, eventually culminating in the founding of StudioMeets in March 2007. myColor myIdea Mahiro Endo |
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