Talk Session: How to Make Puppet Animation in Japan Now: Takeshi Yashiro (GON,THE LITTLE FOX) and Shin Hosokawa (DINO!)

Talk Session:
How to Make Puppet Animation
in Japan Now:
Takeshi Yashiro (GON,THE LITTLE FOX) and
Shin Hosokawa (DINO!)

In Japan Competition this year, there are two puppet animation films nominated. This talk session welcomes the directors of these two films, Takeshi Yashiro (“GON,THE LITTLE FOX”) and Susumu Hosokawa (“DINO!”) and discuss what it is like to make puppet animation film in Japan today.

Guest

Takeshi Yashiro

Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts Design Department. In addition to working at Taiyo Kikaku as a TV commercial director focusing on live action, he has also worked with various methods of stop-motion animation. He established TECARAT in 2015 and switched emphasis to puppet animation. In addition to scriptwriting and directing, he is also involved in art, animation and puppet modeling. He aims to produce images unique to stop-motion animation, emphasizing the texture produced when creating by hand.

Shin Hosokawa

Born in 1978, recieved master’s degree from Tama Art University in 2004, and is currently working as a freelancer and at Tokyo Polytechnic University.

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