Milling Stop-Motion
Everything was made practically using stop motion and a CNC milling machine. Brand ident for Vice TV.
FEM – Light
The working-in-progress video that I’ve been making.
Bokeh Game Studio ID
Director: Baku Hashimoto
Music: Yaporigami
Produce: Archipel
Also made a series of graphics based on the circuit data for the camera rig.
group_inou – EYE
Google Street View™ Music Video
♪group_inou – EYE (from 4th album “MAP”)
This video got the New Face Award at the 19th Japan Media Art Festival.
director: Baku Hashimoto / Katsuki Nogami
assistant editor: Iori Iwaki, Nolie (INS Studio)
tools: Node.js, DMX Controller, openFrameworks, Arduino
All imagery captured using Hyperlapse.js.
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Installation Version
100 Motion Designers in Japan ’18
An ident for “Japanese Motion Graphic Creators 2018” (映像作家100人), the most authoritative yearbook of video directors which has published more than a decade. From this year, the will be announced as not a book but online.
producer: Yusuke Shono
director: Baku Hashimoto
music: toiret status
logo design: Semitransparent Design™
The producer and editor Mr. Shono also runs the online magazine MASSAGE which is focusing on various experimental scenes around the Internet. I’ve been deeply influenced by what he had introduced during my early twenties. So in this project, I tried to integrate all of my own approaches for video production such as generative art, motion graphics, and wired usage of GPU rendering with a kind of Internet-ish atmosphere.
Daily Graphics ’19
I was playing with Houdini. Here are some experiments which look something like Japanese confectioneries.
Something like stonewares.
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NikeLab – FUTURE OF AIR
NIKELAB PRESENTS「先」- FUTURE OF AIR – PROJECT WEBSITE
KOTA IGUCHI / MAIKO TAKEDA / SEIHO / BAKU HASHIMOTO / CEKAI / NAOKI ISHIZAKA / KATSUYA KAMO / MAGMA / ELEVENPLAY / ENGINE
creative direction: CEKAI
director / developer: Baku Hashimoto
copywriting: Tetsuya Yamane
art director / designer：Takahiro Yasuda
music: Seiho
production: CEKAI
New Chitose 2018 Idents
The motion ident for 5th New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival (第5回新千歳国際アニメーション映画祭).
director / animator: Baku Hashimoto
music: toiret status
Olga Bell – ATA
♪Olga Bell – ATA
Taken from her “Tempo” album, released from One Little Indian.
director: Baku Hashimoto
concept: Baku Hashimoto & Olga Bell
photography: Josh Wool
makeup: Stephanie Peterson
imai – Fly ft. 79, Kaho Nakamura
♪ imai – Fly feat. 79, 中村佳穂 from the album “PSEP”
A stop-motion video of various types of mochi🍡, popular sweets for old people in Japan. I had been shot this the whole summer at my grandparents’ house.
director/animator: Baku Hashimoto
logo design: 79
producer: Hiroto Ise (INS Studio), Munekazu Harada
project manager: Yu Murooka (INS Studio)
To realize the free camera movement, I built a special tool integrating a stop-motion software and position tracking device attached to a camera.
KAMRA – Deja Vu
This is an interactive music video for new single “Deja vu” by KAMRA. The viewers can create own video by accessing the site on PC. By seeing themselves morphing and changing along, users feel Deja vu moments.
It won Bronze Lion for Digital Craft at Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity 2016.
artist: KAMRA (invisi-dir.)
producer: Kenjiro Matsuo (invisi-dir.), Yosuke Tominaga, Kenichi Seki (dot by dot inc.)
creative director: Kyosuke Taniguchi (dot by dot inc.)
technical director / programmer: Saqoosha (dot by dot inc.)
movie director: Baku Hashimoto
designer: Taichi Ito (dot by dot inc.)
programmer: Koki Ibukuro (dot by dot inc.)
system enginner: Takanobu Izukawa (dot by dot inc.)
assistant: Shizuho Sato (dot by dot inc.)
cinematography: Show Matsumura
Electrician: Akihiko Someya
Model: FEMM
PR: Kotoko Koya
“Berserk” TV Ad
All the pictures taken from real comic books frame by frame. After extracted the leading character from more than 6000 pages, I carefully collected and re-ordered their faces to move sequentially.
The glitches of roughly morphed frames originally come from this my experiment.
creative director: Kaita Arai
planner: Ai Shibata
director: Kenji Tomita (OOO)
animation director: Baku Hashimoto
editor & adviser: Yoshiteru Yamakawa (INS)
News Release
Everything Becomes F
Ending of fall 2015 anime “Everything Becomes F” (すべてがFになる).
2015年 フジテレビ ノイタミナ枠アニメ「すべてがFになる」 ED映像.
Based on one of the main characters Shiki Magata(真賀田 四季) who is a genius programmer, I adopted the approach of generative arts. The visual style was influenced by various kinds of cellular automata, ’90s desktop environment of *nix, Megademo, and hacker culture.
director: Baku Hashimoto
animation: pai
tools: Golly, Visions of Chaos, p5
All the sources are published under MIT License.
© MORI Hiroshi, KODANSHA/THE PERFECT INSIDER Committee
Depthcope
3D rotoscoping.
This is made for “TECHNE – The Visual Workshop”, a creative educational TV show. Every episode introduces one visual technique such as stop-motion, and my theme in this episode is to use a rotoscope. I developed the shooting system enabling to trace ‘height map’ with clay using a pair of Kinect and projector which works like human-powered 3d printing. We’ve reproduced each frame of the pre-visualization and shot pictures one by one for more than 500 frames.
director: Baku Hashimoto
art director: Poisson Gris (Laurent Gray & Hu Yu)
producer: Hiroto Ise
music: Phasma (“Sinus” from W Records vol.02 Bunkai-kei Records)
lighting: Ikuma Ogawa (SECT)
special thanks: Koji Aramaki, Kosuke Tsukagawa, Yako Naohiro, Kyosuke Ochiai
If We Could Weave Rainbows
♪fhána – If We Could Weave Rainbow
This track is the OP theme of “Haruchika” (ハルチカ), 2016 winter anime. Co-directed with two friends of mine, Koji Aramaki and Yosuke Chiai, who are “Sound! Euphonium” enthusiasts as same as me at that time.
director: SQRT
shooting production: demon-pictures.co.,ltd
2nd camera: Hirohito Itagaki
assistant: Yohei Demachi
lighting: Ryo Takahashi
hair & make: gringe
4DVJ
Visualization of a stereographic projection of 4D geometries on WebGL. This VJ set was performed at CHANNEL #13.
It also picked by Chrome Experiments.
tools
PXCA
My private experiments just for fun. I designed some original rules of cellular automata and built a sort of Oekaki BBS based on them. Users can doodle on canvas just like the Paint app on Windows, and by following the rules of cellular automata, pixels on canvas dynamically evolves into unexpected patterns.
Users also can share their canvas. The number of shares is more than 2,000 in 2 years. Some people started to try a new way of playing with it and some funny memes have been born beyond my expectations.
It also picked by Chrome Experiments.
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foods & System Kitchen
Teaser video for group_inou’s reissue album “foods & System Kitchen”. Inspired by the artwork orange and purple eggs are in the line.
group_inou – MAP
A special site for group_inou’s 4th album, MAP.
art director: poser graphics
video director: Yoshiteru Yamakawa
web design: Baku Hashimoto
The Color Eater
Adobe Creative Cloud’s philosophy video. Ten animators teamed up to create a colorful and dense depiction of the dreamy world in various looks.
It got One Show Silver Pencil & D&AD Graphite Pencil.
plannner: Yusuke Kitani (kaibutsu)
director: Hiroshi Yamakawa (spoon)
music: Masakatsu Takagi
animators: Junichi Arakawa (kaibutsu) & Hiroshi Yamakawa (spoon), Atsushi Hashimoto (kaibutsu), Manabu Himeda, Junichi Arakawa (kaibutsu), Hitoshi Morita (TYMOTE), Daisuke Hashimoto (P.I.C.S), Yohei Wada, Yutaro Kubo, Baku Hashimoto (in order of appearance)
Koji Nakamura – B.O.Y
creative director: fantasista utamaro (KOTOBUKISUN)
director: Tetsuya Tatamitani (KOTOBUKISUN)
composite director: Baku Hashimoto
animation: yotube, Tetsuya Tatamitani
rotoscope cinematographer: Kenjiro Matsuoka
laser EFX: Tatsuya Yamamoto
Kinect Experiments
RGBD Toolkit → meshlab → C4D → AE. I’m bored of point clouds.
Chirashi Composition
group_inou – MANSION
A website for group_inou’s single “MANSION”, which was dropped online for free. As there is no physical release, I recreated whole the CD on the browser, except the disc and embedded SoundCloud play button and download link instead.
P _ X T _
Stock images for business always give me inspiration.
SA-ROUND
A motion ident for an experimental music concert “SA-ROUND”, which was held by friends of mine in the department of music when I was in art college.
director: Baku Hashimoto
sound: Tatsuki Tsushima
art director: fundam
producer: Fumiko Matsuura, Matoba Takaki, Kazuki Komai
Pixilation Study
究極の登校
“The Ultimate Way of Commuting”
I made this documentary when I was 17 years old. It obtained the Grand Prix of TV documentary category at NHK Trophy National High School Broadcasting Contest.
高校の頃作ったドキュメンタリーです。電車通学している軽音部の後輩のために、駅〜学校間の最適な登校ルートをスポーツ医学・交通管制的見地から検証しました。
第58回 全国高校放送コンテスト テレビドキュメント部門 最優秀
staff: Baku Hashimoto, Haruna Kawajiri, Kazutaka Shoji, Nao Shoji, Mio Fairweather, Tomotake Honma
special thanks to Miura
