Go Trees!

It’s been a while since I posted anything from Digista, the Japanese animation programme on NHK. So today I bring a short little tale about a forest which took it’s revenge.

Watch the other Digital Stadium videos here.

Yet More Japanese Animation

Another couple of videos from Digital Stadium on NHK. The first one takes a little while to buffer but it is truly, truly worth it. I don’t want to even begin to describe it, just trust me- if you love fairytales and children’s stories you’ll adore it. I recommend watching the second one just before bedtime, it’s really rather relaxing.

More Japanese Animation

A few months back I posted a couple of short Japanese animations from a show called Digital Stadium on news channel NHK World. At the time there were so many I wanted to put up that I meant to publish a few more posts with a few more videos. Naturally, I forgot. Well, until about five minutes ago. So here are a couple more for your consideration. Again, due to the language barrier, I can’t tell you who they’re by or what they’re called but if you speak Japanese I’m sure it tells you on them somewhere.

I like to think of this first one as a dramatisation of what would happen if Sadako from the Ring trilogy and Link from the Legend of Zelda got together (at least for the first half of it).

And this second one, which is especially lovely, reminds me in places of that Studio Ghibli classic Princess Mononoke (one of my most favouritest films ever).

Japanese Animation

These are a few delightful animations from an art show on Japanese news channel NHK World. I can’t tell from the info on YouTube what the artists’ names are. God, but I’d love to have the patience to learn that language... Anyway, I think the first one is particularly enchanting. I actually saw the artist on the programme talking about the piece and I had to hunt it down. She showed how she made it by hand cutting many, many sheets of paper into the lace-like patterns you see and then layering them for effect. Watch it, it’s wonderful.