The Life of Ants

An animated film based on one of the renku (collaborative linked poems) in the 1684 collection of the same name by the 17th-century Japanese poet Bashō. The creation of the film followed the traditional collaborative nature of the source material – the visuals for each of the 36 stanzas were independently created by 35 different animators. As well as many Japanese animators, Kawamoto assembled leading names in animation from across the world. Each animator was asked to contribute at least 30 seconds to illustrate their stanza, and most of the sequences are under a minute (Yuriy Norshteyn's, though, is nearly two minutes long).

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.

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

A short animation on the theme of "7". (Yuko Asano).

The second drawing animation I made when I was a student at Musashino Art University.

Drawing animation, Reshooting 8mm Film.

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

The Sea Slug Sisters will perform a puppet show "The Tale of Tanabata", using puppets with their figure in a small theatre. (Yuko Asano).

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 ∞".