Award-winning Works

Digital Art  [Non Interactive Art]  Division

SILENT HILL
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Excellence Prize

SILENT HILL

CG Moving Picture

Artist : Takayoshi SATO
(Movie Direction, CGI Product)

(Japan)

MOVIE

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Profiles

Takayoshi Sato

Takayoshi SATO

1992 Entered Tama School of Art, Oil Painting Course. 1994 Exhibited his works in a six person exhibition called "Sexibition" 1994 Exhibited his works at "Tamavavin '94" 1995 Exhibited his works at "Tamavavin '95" 1996 Exhibited his works at "Sayonara Tamavavin" 1996 Graduated from Tama School of Art 1996 Entered Konami Computer Entertainment.

Comment

This work is an attempt to go beyond the Ocomputer-likeOqualities of computer generated animations and create characters with theexpressive potential of human beings, using motion-capture and some originalproduction techniques that I have developed. I worked alone on this project, so I didnOt have a lot of time toexperiment. However, I was able to be in total control of the theme and themood of the entire project which made things easier. I think this is one of the reasons to why my work was chosen.

Reason for Award

Rather than present never-before-seen images, this work uses computer graphics to express images that people have seen before. In doing so, it makes the computer graphics look remarkably realistic. The movement of the characters gives them charm and personality, and they express something close to emotion. This work raises the standard of digital character animation.