Shinji Aoba, the arsonist found guilty of killing 36 people in an attack on a Kyoto Animation Co. studio in 2019, made clear he is appealing the Jan. 25 death sentence simply to buy time to speak out more about the horrific crime.
Animation Co. in Kyoto, western Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo, July 18, 2019. (Kyodo/via REUTERS).Share Print A Japanese court sentenced a man to death Thursday for the 2019 arson attack at an animation studio in Kyoto that killed 36 people. The Kyoto District Court ruled that Shinji Aoba was mentally competent at the…
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Directed by Emlyn Davies for Bomper Studio, Wales, 2021.
Tools: Zbrush (character sculpts), Cinema 4D (rigging, animation, modeling, texturing), Arnold (rendering)
Project description from Bomper Studio:
After working on the music video for “No Son of Mine,” RCA approached Bomper Studio looking for a whimsical film for the dreamy and immersive track “Chasing Birds.” Described as “weird and mellow” by keyboardist Rami Jaffee, the initial brief was to explore motifs within the song through taking the band on a psychedelic, technicolor journey; reminiscent of The Beatles
Yellow Submarine. The production took place from February-April 2021. Director Emlyn Davies and co-director Josh Hicks worked to develop a story set within a colorful utopia which devolves into a nightmarish hellscape; filled to the brim with trippy imagery and animation. The chosen setting was a landscape reminiscent of the Sonoran desert; often chosen as a shorthand in narratives of existential isolat