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Azuru Isshiki’s animated short An Instant, pares the art of animation down to its essentials: A series of images drawn in paint on paper. It begins and ends with a small dot, but in-between Isshiki explores the full range of expression possible with just simple animation tools. The film consists of just black and red paint on a variety of different papers. Dots, lines, and spirals dance across the screen, as does a cheerful female figure. (Source: Nishikata Film Review)

Music video directed by ShiShi Yamazaki for the song Kai Ten Ryo Kou Ki by Japanese music group Open Reel Ensemble, featuring Tavito Nanao.

Directed by Atsushi Wada, Silver Bear Winner of 62nd Berlin International Film Festival, the animation to increase the entertainment value and number of new fans for American football in Japan. (Source: YouTube)

This work is based on 15 years of entries in the diary that I've kept since age eight. Through creating this work I was searching for freedom from my preconceptions about animation and myself. (Source: Geidai Animation)

This is a paper-cut animation. It tells the story of how Goodme found good quality citrons and used them to make a unique citron tea. We built a real milk tea shop scene, applied a special paper-cut style, and created a paper-cut rainforest full of customs. (Source: Steamworks Official YouTube Channel)

Four years ago while out for a walk in Ome, I picked up an intriguing stone of 30cm across. Then I wanted to pursue its image until its ultimate end. Graduate Work 2013 from Tatsuhiro Ariyoshi, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. (Source: Geidai Animation)

Akira Oda's graduation work at Tama Art University in 1996.

Shinya Tsukamoto’s animated promo for the Ca' Foscari Cinema in Venice. (Source: Letterboxd)

Official music video for Panpan no Tou's song Ongaku wa Tomatta.

Station IDs featuring the Popee The Performer characters that aired as bumpers between programs on the Japanese Kids Station satellite station sometime during the early 2000s. Released on the Popee the Performer Vol.1 DVD.

Music video for the song Aaaaaaaaaaa by Satapanpi, featuring Hatsune Miku.

Music video for the song DAI MOND by Hong Kong band TYNT.

At some point, children diverge from the ideal path set forth for them by adults. The trigger is usually a trivial incident. (Source: Geidai Animation)

Directed and animated by Sawako Kageyama, music and song performance by Haruomi Hosono and Tomoyo Harada.

The story of a mother, her baby, and a wind spirit, and their journey in the sky. (Source: Official Website)

The theme in this animation is doppelganger. This is story of one man and myself. Their memory, dream and hallucination are talked about in turn and their past and future go to gradually mix.

Music video for the song Coquetterie Dancer by Yuu Miyashita.

"We can understand each other without understanding each language." (Source: Maya Yonesho)

Graduate work from Mai Yamaguchi 2018 TAMA Art University with music from Yuta Uraki.

A TV show that is so unclear to whom and where it is broadcast. A strange room where the recording and editing is taking place. A middle-aged gentleman like a wax figure sits on a turntable and grabs the microphone as the director signals him to do so. A reading about the mysterious genre "Ficfyon" has begun. 'What the heck did we not have time for?' The monologue of a man sitting in the audience and continuing to talk about his story will soon move into Ficfyon prophecies about the 2000s. (Source: CaRTe bLaNChe)

Animation by Ryo Orikasa, based on a poem by the same name by Ishihara Yoshirou.

A film by Keiichi Tanaami.