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  • INORI - PRAYER-

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    About the Work
    The latest work to utilize real time tracking and face projection mapping using a state of the art 1000 fps projector and ultra high speed sensing, ‘INORI-PRAYER-,’ has been released. This project was born when Nobumichi Asai (WOW) approached collaborators TOKYO (http://www.lab.tokyo.jp/), the dancing duo AyaBambi, and the Ishikawa Watanabe Laboratory at the University of Tokyo.

    This project began when songs were created about ‘life,’ a theme proposed by Tanigawa (TOKYO), who acted as this project’s director. Creative and technical director Asai (WOW) and CG director Shingo Abe (WOW) completed visual production and programming based on inspiration they obtained from the songs. Aya Sato added the choreography, and TOKYO completed the project by making it into a video.

    ‘Radioactive’ is the inspiration that Asai felt from music. ‘Radioactive’ wields destructive power, and from that brings ‘death’, ‘suffering’, and ‘sadness’. And then, the ‘opportunity’ to overcome those things. Accompanied by the overwhelming performance of AyaBambi, a visual synchronization of black tears, skulls, faces being severed, Noh Masks of agony and the Heart Sutra have sublimated into a single piece of work.

    The face mapping system made it possible to follow intense performances, which was impossible until now, thanks to the use of the state of the art 1000 fps projector DynaFlash※1 and ultra high speed sensing. The initial dilemma of speeding up the tracking to the detriment of performance latitude was resolved by the WOW team, Professor Watanabe, and Tomoaki Teshima (EXVISION), who trimmed several milliseconds during a trial and error period that lasted approximately three months, enabling the completion of this system※2. The projected image looks like it is integrated into part of the skin, and the expressions on a subject’s face, when it is distorted or transformed, are exponentially enhanced.

    *1: Jointly developed by the Ishikawa Watanabe Laboratory at the University of Tokyo and Tokyo Electron Device, and commercialized by Tokyo Electron Device.
    *2: Dynamic projection mapping technology, developed by the Ishikawa Watanabe Laboratory at the University of Tokyo, was used for hand tracking and projection mapping. Face mapping technology, developed by WOW Inc., was used for facial tracking.

    作品について
    最新鋭1000fpsプロジェクターと超高速センシングによるリアルタイムトラッキング&フェイスプロジェクションマッピングの最新作「INORI -PRAYER-」が公開。本作は、浅井宣通(WOW)の呼びかけにより、TOKYO( http://www.lab.tokyo.jp/ )、ダンスユニットAyaBambi、東京大学石川渡辺研究室とのコラボレーションから誕生した。
    本作は、ディレクターを務めた谷川英司氏(TOKYO)が提案した「生命」をテーマに楽曲を制作したところから開始。楽曲から受けたインスピレーションを元に、クリエイティブ・テクニカルディレクター浅井(WOW)とCGディレクター阿部伸吾(WOW)がビジュアル制作とプログラミングを構築。更にAya Sato氏がコレオグラフを作り上げ、TOKYOが映像作品として完成させた。
    本作では、最新鋭の1000fpsプロジェクターDynaFlash※1と超高速センシングの使用により、これまで不可能だった激しいパフォーマンスも追従できるフェイスマッピングシステムを実現。トラッキングを高速化することによりパフォーマンスの自由度が失われるという開発当初のジレンマを解消すべく、WOWチーム、渡辺教授、手島氏(EXVISION)は約三ヶ月に渡り数ミリ秒を削るためトライ&エラーを繰り返し、今回のシステム※2を完成。プロジェクションされたイメージは、それ自体が皮膚の一部と一体化しているようにも見え、被写体の顔が変形・変質する際の表現力を飛躍的に高めた。
    ※1: 東京大学石川渡辺研究室と東京エレクトロンデバイスが共同で開発し、東京エレクトロンデバイスが製品化。
    ※2: 手のトラッキング&プロジェクションマッピングは、東京大学石川渡辺研究室が開発したダイナミックプロジェクションマッピング技術を使用。顔のトラッキングは、WOW inc.が開発したフェイスマッピング技術を使用。

    AyaBambi▶http://www.ayabambi.net/
    TOKYO▶http://www.lab.tokyo.jp/
    東京大学石川渡辺研究室▶http://www.k2.t.u-tokyo.ac....

    Staff Credit
    Creative Director / Technical Director:Nobumichi Asai[WOW]
    CG Director:Shingo Abe[WOW]
    Programmer:Atsushi Yoshimura[WOW]
    Assistant Producer:Ayaka Motoyoshi[WOW]

    Director / Editor:Eiji Tanigawa[TOKYO]
    Director of Photography:Senzo Ueno[TOKYO]
    Producer:Toshiyuki Takei, Shinya Masuda[TOKYO]
    Production Manager:Minami Chiwaki, Yuma Yoshimura, Kohei Takayama[TOKYO]
    Making Director:Suzuko Ohgaki[TOKYO]

    Choreographer:Aya Sato
    Cast:AyaBambi
    Management:Oi-chan

    Shootings
    Gaffer:Tomohiro Takahashi
    Light Assistant:Hisashi Morikawa, Mie Inaba, Akihiko Imai
    Camera 1st Assistant:Takashi Ideguchi
    Camera 2nd Assistant:Shibuya Hiromi, Fujii Ryosuke
    Music:Setsu Fukushima, Ryosuke Taniguchi[Ongakushitsu Inc.]
    Music Composer:Yosuke Nagao

    Colorist:Yasuo Fukuda
    Online Editor:Ryota Abe

    PR
    Mizuki Kawano [School]
    Tomoyuki Sawada [Kartz Media Works]
    Natsuki Taguchi [Kartz Media Works]

    Special Thanks
    Yoshihiro Watanabe[Ishikawa Watanabe Laboratory,University of Tokyo]
    Masatoshi Ishikawa[Ishikawa Watanabe Laboratory,University of Tokyo]
    Tomoaki Teshima[Exvision]

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