Light on the other side

The Life of Ants

A stop motion animation unfolds within a labyrinthine place. A mantis is invading the kingdom of ants while witnessing their ritual activities, and getting into the inside of the group.

Ten Dark Women

A TV movie by Kon Ichikawa, remaking of Ten Dark Women (1961)

The Plant of Waterside

Stop motion animation. I started making three-dimensional works around this time. (Yuko Asano).

Spiral Labyrinth

Drawing animation, Reshooting 8mm Film.

班制作作品

キオク

Anemone

To commemorate the event "INTO ANIMATION 8", dedicated members of the Japan Animation Association present a completely original new omnibus animation! Each work is exactly 15 seconds long, and the theme, inspired by the number 8 from this 8th edition, is "Infinity ∞".

島の暮れ方の話

晴れ

The Paper House

A very short animation drawn on tracing paper with a brush pen and coloured pencil. “This work was inspired by an impressive dream. In the dream, I took a dictionary that printed flip-books in the corner from a book shelf, and when I returned it, the book had disappeared.”[Yuko Asano]

六花

模様小島

Flowing Water

A short animation is drawn on Washi paper and Cel with a marker and anime. Some Kanji ( they are used in the Japanese poem “Iroha Uta”) metamorphose into various creatures.

The Garden of Five Fingers

A stop motion animation using several phenakistoscopes of a polyhedron and other materials. Five “Egg birds” appears in the artificial garden.

Regular Polyhedra

A stop-motion work in which illustrations were drawn on the surface of a three-dimensional object, such as a regular polyhedron, and filmed as they were replaced. My first three-dimensional animation. (Yuko Asano).

Western Mantra