
Once we used to be happy and grateful for the pure act of eating. Graduate Work 2017 by Umemura Haruka, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. (Source: Geidai Animation)

A short animation drawn on Washi paper and Cel with a marker and animex. Some Kanji (they are used in the Japanese poem “Iroha uta”) metamorphose into various creatures. (Source: Kraut Film)


The main character wrapped in a white cocoon rides on a train with no particular destination in mind. This character travels somewhere far away with the Face entrusted by another passenger, along with the Shadow that vaguely appears in the window. Gr

Graduation work of Ayano Yamazawa at Tama Art University.


It is most likely a story about a great dream like car.

Graduation Work of Shin Hosokawa at Tama Art University.

Signs such as circles, points, and lines get together to make a shape of a “bear.” “The bear” starts to walk to find the concrete places and comes across animals in the forest. We tend to find a story in the relationship between “the bear” and other

The everyday life of an elephant and a woman, his wife in a lakeside house. Their life together with a certain distance repeats itself. The traces of the passing time cover the familiar landscape. One day an accident happens to the couple living toge

There is an elderly woman who has run a store in a Japanese town for sixty years. She marries into the Imamura Store and cares for the shop by herself, as she lived each day as the present. 1st Year Work 2011 by Aya Tsugehata, Tokyo University of the

Deep down in the forest there lived flower fairies in flower gardens. They would wake up with the sunrise, eat sweets, and chat with each other. Then, one day, they had a visit by him and then… Graduate Work 2013, Tokyo University of the Arts, Gradua

The universe of strange and colorful creatures that are born, eat, are eaten… and are reborn indefinitely on the screen.

The adventure of a lost little rabbit wandering through the woods. As night draws near, wonder-working plants and flowers show the way. Graduate Work 2018, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation.

Graduation work of Tomotari Oishi at Tama Art University.


Graduation work of Feiran Cao at Tama Art University.

Graduation work of Miho Kidoguchi at Tama Art University.

An experimental film created from 3 years worth of abstract pencil drawings with the goal of being a catalyst for unveiling a new mental landscape in viewers.

This animation is emotional and dreamy story about love of three bees.