A new animation is here!
An animated music video of the track, Shrine Island pt1, by kidkanevil from his album, BUBBLE.
The first in a three part series featuring islands dedicated to play. The other two parts coming later in 2022.
A new animation is here!
An animated music video of the track, Shrine Island pt1, by kidkanevil from his album, BUBBLE.
The first in a three part series featuring islands dedicated to play. The other two parts coming later in 2022.
Our simple looping animation, Playgrounds, had its official debut Thursday with some amazing other artists! We are grateful to BOSTON CYBERARTS for contacting us to participate in this round. This was our third time working with the organization to create something to screen at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. The first was for the extremely wide display in the lobby of the convention center, the second was for the multi-panel display outside. Like this round, for the first piece there was a reception and we were able to witness the animation in person. The second piece was right as the US was starting to take the pandemic seriously in March 2020 and all in person meetings were canceled. The animation was still used on the display but we never saw it ourselves!
Both previous animations are viewable on our website though! Miraculously, Boston Cyberarts is still going strong and contacted us in the spring to participate in this curated round. We are deeply grateful for the opportunity! Though the reception was not open to the public it was the first in person event we've attended since everything started.
The animation/installation we created this round reflected our ongoing interest in play, specifically open play and the way simple shapes/structures can invite different modes of interaction. The overall piece was relatively subtle in movement, but features easy-to-read shapes with characters playing on them.
木曜日、ボストンコンベンションセンター横の大型屋外モニターの点灯式にて私たちの作ったループアニメーション「プレイグラウンド」がデビューしました!コンベンションセンター屋内のモニター映像を含めると今回で3回目です。1番最初の屋内モニターはコンベンションセンターの大きなロビーを横切る超横長モニターに流すものでした。次は2020年3月、コンベンションセンター横の大型モニターへのアニメーションを製作しましたが、マサチューセッツにちょうどCOVID-19の感染が拡大し始めていた頃のために点灯式はキャンセル、その後結局現地には1度も見に行けませんでした。今まで作ったものはどちらもここで見ることができます。
3番目の今回は、ここ数年考えている遊ぶこと、世界を見るツールとしてのおもちゃにフォーカスしたアニメーションを作ってみました。今回も製作のチャンスをくれたボストンサイバーアーツの皆さん、ありがとうございました!
HAKKORI is playing in a group show at Landmark College Fine Arts Gallery 02/18 - 05/14! The show is called Rapt Attentions and the other participating artists are Robbie Heidinger, Colleen Keough, Lydia M Kinney, Joan O’Beirne and Michael Smoot.
Open Weekdays 9-6, Weekends 10-6.
隣のバーモント州のランドマーク大学のファインアートギャラリーで2/18から5/14の間に開催されるグループ展「Rapt Attentions」に参加しています。この大学は自閉症・学習障害、注意欠陥の診断を持つ学生に特化した学校だそうです。会場ではハッコリを上映する事にしました。沢山の学生さんに見てもらえてたら嬉しいです!(外部の方もワクチン接種&マスク必須で見てもらえます)
On Tuesday, 04/05, we spoke to an animation class at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. We did a talk earlier at a school virtually earlier in the year but this was our first in-person in a long time!
It was a very receptive and insightful group and we felt welcomed and comfortable to get into what we came to discuss, which was mostly the process of creating HAKKORI and the first of our new animations.
It was a wonderful opportunity and great to speak (safely) with a group of people in person after such a long time!
4月5日、マサチューセッツ大学アマースト校のアニメーションクラスに呼ばれて自分たちの制作スタイルについてお話ししてきました。今回はOperturaの始まりから、特にHAKKORIと今現在製作中のアニメーションについてお話ししました。
こういう機会がきたときにいつも思うんですが、人のために資料を用意してお話ししている時に初めて自分たちのことを客観的に見れて気がつくことがあります。いつも二人きりでやってるので新鮮な視点をもらえてありがたいな〜。(毎度の緊張はその視点をもらうための支払いみたいなもので…いつまでも慣れない!)
We are pleased to announce HAKKORI will premiere at Fantasia International Film Festival this August! There is even a lovely page they prepared for the animation on their website! We are very excited to be able to start sharing this animation with more people!
We also have a page on our website for the film now and look forward to premiering it online sometime in the near-is future, most likely in the fall.
8月5日よりスタートするカナダ・モントリオールのファンタジア国際映画祭の短編アニメーションプログラムCirco Animato 2021にてアニメーション「HAKKORI」が選出、ワールドプレミア上映されます!私たちの事を知らない多くの人にHAKKORIを見てもらえるのはこれが初めての機会になります。嬉しい!
HAKKORIページも作りました。ここから増やして行けたらと思います。時期は未定ですが、なんらかの形で未来に本編公開する予定です。
Fearless Woman, our animation for Pat Robitaille is screening at Anibar International Animation Festival next month(7/23-7/30)!
コソボで来月(7/23-7/30)開催される国際アニメーション映画祭Anibarのアニメーテッドミュージックビデオ部門にて「Fearless Woman」が上映されます。
Thanks to Assets for Artists we were selected to be artist fellows at the Studios at MASS MoCA for two weeks in February 2021.
As we recently completed our long in-progress animation, Hakkori, we were at point to be exploring and learning new skills.
As we have been looking at forms of play recently and focusing on playground structures, we decided to design a structure that we could create in various forms. Below is the result of some our explorations.
We also found some friends in our experimenting.
We recently finished a short animation, Hakkori. It won’t be available online for a while but we wanted share part of it, so we made a trailer!
The music in the trailer is by Juana Molina. It does not appear in the full animation even though she scored it. It is an extra bit of music just for you!
以前お知らせした様に、新作「Hakkori(ハッコリ)」は完成したわけなんですが、今回は珍しくトレイラーを作ってみようかと思いました!
実はこのトレイラー、先日(12/3)上映終了したAmherst CinemaでのOpertura短編集プログラム「Dreams for the Living」の一番最後に流したものでした。上映も終わり解禁ということで皆さんに見てもらうことにしました。
ちなみにこのトレイラーで使われている音楽、ハッコリの音楽を作ってくれたファナ・モリーナによるものなんですが実は本編には使われていません!贅沢にも彼女が初期の段階で作ってくれたハッコリのための音のスケッチから使わせてもらっています!
2012年頃から構想を始めて、やっとここまでこれて本当に嬉しいです。ではどうぞ!
We’ve updated our website store a bit! There is more to come but if you are interested in pins, magnets or postcards take a look! It is also a good example of what we are sending our Little Buddy tier Patreon patrons each month!
https://www.opertura.org/store
ウェブサイトのストアを更新しました!今回追加したのは、エナジー星雲バッジ、エナジープラントマグネット、そしてイラストポストカード5枚セットです。
パトレオンのティア(支援レベル)がリトルバディの皆さんに送っているミステリー封筒には、こんな感じのものが入ったりしています。(もちろん他の月には全く違うものが入りますよ…ミステリーなので…)今後、商品追加も考えています。お楽しみに!
https://www.opertura.org/store
A new animation of ours is out! Fearless Woman, a music video for musician Pat Robitaille.
Shino travels the land with her old friend Manta researching patterns. Sometimes her research is fruitful while other times it has lasting consequences.
新作アニメーション『Frealess Woman』公開されました!カナダ・トロントのミュージシャン、パット・ロビテールのミュージックビデオです。
いろんな環境を訪れて自然の中に潜む文様を調査するシノ。彼女の友人マンタと共にまだ見ぬパターンを収集しています。この調査には危険が、自己を保っていられないかもしれないほどの変化がつきものですが、変わることを恐れないシノはこの仕事が天職のようです。
We are returning to our local independent theater, Amherst Cinema, starting Friday 11/20 in their Virtual Theater for a screening of recent work: Dreams for the Living, a Selection of Opertura Animations.
On Tuesday the 24th we will also be doing a live Q&A at 7pm.
In 2016 we curated a screening event, Drawn Together, at Amherst Cinema with animator, Jo Dery. We screened a number of contemporary animators work and another animator, Jake Fried, joined us as a special guest. It was a wonderful experience and we are very happy to be collaborating with the cinema again.
時間は吹っ飛んで、11月ですね。こちらは先日初雪でした。
11/20より映画館Amherst Cinemaが主催する、家で楽しむバーチャルシネマのプログラムにて私達の最新の作品を含めたソロ短編集プログラム『Dreams For the Living』が上映されることになりました。
この映画館では2016年に『Drawn Together』というイベントで短編アニメーションの上映プログラムをキュレートさせてもらいました。この時は私達と友人のアニメーション作家Jo Deryの3人で選んだ世界のいろんな短編作家の作品集でしたが、今回は私達の映像のみのソロプログラムです。
お客さんとしてもよく利用している素敵な映画館です。11/24にオンラインでのQ&Aも開催されるということで楽しみにしています!
画像は近日公開予定のミュージックビデオからの画像です。(初公開!)こちらも早くお知らせできますように。
Do you like meditative, repetitious activities like cleaning haunted antiques? Then we made a game just for you!
Over an intense two week period we conjured an actual, playable video game into existence with an absolutely incredible team for PIGSquad’s “Music-First”, “Ghost Notes” themed summer slow jam.
Music by Sidney Satorsky
Programming by Yori Kvitchko
Sound Design by Ludovic
The game is downloadable on its itch.io page. It is a real, working game! You play as Dustin, helping out for one night in your aunt’s antique shop cleaning a variety of rare items. The items also happen to be haunted - with ghosts that sing! The game is a relaxing experience, interacting with ghosts, cleaning antiques and taking some down time on the balcony.
The game is rough around the edges and is not playable on every iteration of Mac and Windows OS’s. We’ll probably be doing a live stream on Saturday (8/1) for folks who want to have the experience but can’t play it themselves. It would be great to have this game optimized for everything! And more polished! Perhaps some day…
The collaboration period over the past two weeks was truly something special for us. While we normally are fairly secretive about our work, we spent most of our creation time with our screens shared with the rest of the team, as our teammates did with us, either showing the programming they were going through or piping the music they were creating to us into the early morning hours. For two weeks!
叔母さんの経営するアンティークショップで夜の清掃のバイトを始めたダスティン。バイト初日の夜、沢山の呪われたアンティークたちがダスティンを待ち受けていたのでした…。
ふー!完成した〜!この2週間、オレゴン州ポートランドが拠点のpigsquadが夏に主催するゲームジャム(ゲームクリエイターが集まり短期間でゲームを完成させるイベント)に参加していました。普通ゲームジャムというと1週間とか48時間(!)でゲームを完成させるというものらしいですが、私たちが参加したのはスロウジャム。ちょっと長めの2週間でゼロからゲームを作り完成させるルールでした。(まあ全くの初心者の私たちにとって、2週間という期限もありえないくらい短かいものですが…!)
ほんとうにいいチームで集まれて、さらに2週間で実際にプレイできる状態でリリースできました。
プログラマーのYori Kvitchko、音楽を担当したSidney Satorsky、サウンドデザインのLudovic、そして私たちがアート&アニメーションを担当しました。
もし興味がある方は、こちらのitch.ioのページからダウンロードしてください。
winとmacで遊べます。macは全てのOSで遊べるわけではないのでご注意ください。
この埃を拭いてキレイにする動作が、音楽と相まって謎の気持ち良さがあり、制作中もプログラマーのYoriがテストで掃除してるのをみんなでボーっと眺めてる事が多々ありました…温泉みたいな気持ち良さ…。
The face in the mirror of dreams
We have a small show of new work coming 3/5-31 at The Bower Studio, a sweet apothecary/gift shop in Amherst, MA.
There will be a reception on 3/5 from 5-8! Illustrations and mini sculptures, come take a look! .
3月にthe bower studioという薬局&ギフトショップで小さな展示「ドリームリフレクション」を行います。
薬局をApothecary(アポセカリー)という時、それは少し古風な言い方になります。ドラッグストアというよりは漢方薬局に感覚が近いかも。楽しみです!
Starting in early December, we now have a one minute animation, Floating Nebula, playing on the Video Wall at The Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. It is in rotation with 19 other videos, 10 from earlier in 2019 and 9 others that debuted with our own.
The Video Wall is 160ft long! The videos will be up in rotation with other event info for the foreseeable future, if you are in Boston please check it out! Even if the space isn’t open you can see the Video Wall from outside.
About the animation:
Floating Nebula is a space of relaxation and tranquility with a grand view of the energy rushing all around us. Energy exchange has been a point of interest for us for the past few years, explored through our Energy Plant, Energy Nebula and related series, often depicted by disparate shapes of watercolor, separated by narrow empty spaces, coming together to describe a larger idea. Floating Nebula centers us on the narrow empty space of quiet looking on as the separate individual forms of energy flow on.
Many thanks to Boston Cyber Arts, along with the Convention Center, who made this opportunity possible!
Through doing mystery envelopes for our Patreon patrons, we’ve slowly built a pile of interesting little items.
Some items are experiments for more elaborate ideas, others bring single elements of bigger works into focus. In particular we’ve been using our Energy Plants for many of the items, as these elaborate little pieces would otherwise literally fade into the background of the animation we are currently working on.
One of the experiments we have been working on are small dioramas. The ones we have created thus far are focused on a creature running among small plants, and while it’s a simple start and we have much more to do with them we are satisfied with how things are turning out.
The Energy Plant items we mentioned are a variety of die-cut stickers and magnets, sticker sheets and clear-backed stickers to name a few. Mostly we have been using Sticker Mule to create these, and they all have been high quality, and they have been very easy to work, super responsive to any questions. They also typically have weekly deals even so you can try an idea for a relatively low price before committing to a large order.
If you are interested in supporting us and learning more about our upcoming animation, Hakkori, please consider becoming a Patreon supporter! $5 (and up) per month get you a mystery envelope with many of the items mentioned above!
As we get closer to finishing Hakkori we’ve decided to launch a Patreon page to act as a gathering place for related info: background, influences, concept art, etc.. Depending on how successful it feels to us, it will continue on to future projects as well. It is also an easy way to deliver new goods, like stickers and postcards, to interested people. Have a look if you are interested!
We’ve already shared the first physical gift for our “little buddy” tier patrons: Hakkori sticker sheets! I’m not sure we’ll share every new gift as they are supposed to be a mystery, but we were excited about these stickers and couldn’t help ourselves!
We were invited to participate in the group show, Super Radiance, at Nook Gallery in Inglewood, CA, 11/10 - 12/8!
A number of Energy Nebula, debuted in our Fecund Opening show at the E.C.A. gallery in Easthampton, MA are included in the show.
We were lucky enough to be in town during the opening and met the organizers, Laura Darlington and Selwa Sweidan and many of the participating artists. It is a stunning show, if you are in the area please take a look!
(Some photos courtesy of curators Laura and Selwa)
Our animation camp returned for a second year, bigger and badder (...in a good way. All the campers were very talented) than ever. Another one week overnight camp with eight energetic and highly motivated campers. They spent all day every day drawing hundreds of frames to complete a variety of animations using characters they developed and in the evening they relaxed... with more drawing.
We look forward to seeing these animators go on to create!
We made an animated video with lovely local psychedelic band, BUNNIES!
The track is titled and animation is titled, The Problem with Link Think off BUNNIES’ latest album, Transportation to Mind Transformation.
Twins Reona and Oscar bide their time at their favorite snack shop waiting for more takoyaki and are lured to an alternate dimension. Will they be back in time for their takoyaki???
It was wonderful working with the band, we even got together for a takoyaki party upon release of the video.
We animated a segment for Vice News!
Titled, "Are we living in a computer simulated reality?", it looks at the theory posited by Nick Bostrom and the thoughts and opinions surrounding it.
The team at Vice News working on this piece gave us an enormous amount of freedom to create as we liked. It was an incredibly positive experience and we are deeply grateful to Linsay Van Dyke who brought us in to this project.