Award-winning Works

Digital Art [Non Interactive Art] Division

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Excellence Prize

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CG Moving Picture

Poket Monster Web Site

Artist : PIKACHU PROJECT 99

(Japan)

Profile

Kunihiko YUYAMA (Director)

Born in Tokyo in October, 1952. Made his debut with TV animation "Galaxy Express 999 - No. 3". His first experience with direction was for "Minky Momo, Fairy Princess". Selected Works (TV) "Sengoku Majin Goshogun (Goshogun War Devil)" "Mahou no Proncess Minky Momo (Fairy Princess Minky Momo) " "Puraresu Sanshiro (Plastic model restling Sanshiro)" "Anime Sanjushi (The Three Gunfighters)" "Ken Yu Densetsu Yaiba (The Legend of Yaiba the Sword fighter)" "Ai Tenshi Densetsu Wedding Peach (Wedding Peach - The Legend of the Angel of Love )" "Pocket Monster" [Video] "(Gemmu Senki Reda) The Fantastic War Diaries of Reda" "Vindalia" "Ushio to Tora" [Movie] "Anime Sanjushi - Aramis' Adventure (The Three Gunfighters - Aramis' Adventure)" "The Slayers - Grate" "The Slayers - Return" "Kimagure Orange Road -Soshite Ano Natsu no Hajimari (The Capricious Orange Road - The Beginning of That Summer)" "Pocket Monster the first Movie - Mewtwo's Counterattack"

Comment

Computer graphics are the animator's paints and brushes and palette. This work is my second full-length animated movie and for this movie we used many times more digital cuts than for the first one. There are some advantages to digital animation that simply cannot be realized with cel-based animation, the quality, the camera work, the efficiency... I am very proud of what we have been able do with these tools. However, whether doing cel-based or computer-based work, you still need a large staff, working tenaciously, to produce full-length animations. All of the staff humbly accept this high assessment of our hard work. We will take the joy of winning this award as encouragement for future projects. (Director - Kunihiko Yuyama)

Reason for Award

An animated movie based on a video game that has outlasted many others in popularity, and featuring a case of highly likable characters, this work inherits the strong story lines and other strengths of Japanese animation. It is not that long since the previous movie in this series ("Pokemon:TheFirst Movie") opened on more than 3,000 screens in the United States, an unprecedented commercial success story.