Timeline (2024)

Selected as one of ten Researchers with Nice Step 2024, recognized for significant contributions to science and technology.

Proposed and participated in the Birds of a Feather session focusing on anime at ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 and announced the anime tool brand AnimeCraft. Additionally, a co-authored Technical Communications paper received the Best Paper Award. (See Graphinica project page)

Attended the Trilateral AI Conference 2024 and presented a poster. I also served as a co-chair of the joint roundtable session "Creativity and Cultures in the Post-AI Era" (merged with "AI in Branding and Design").

Contributed to establishing a development structure and conducting technical outreach for Arch Inc. and Graphinica, Inc.'s style-transfer R&D in 3D CG production, resulting in the production of the prototype film Forest Tale.

For the fifth consecutive year, a programming contest using the Lyric App Framework was held at Hatsune Miku's Magical Mirai 2024. I took the stage, and the session was streamed live on YouTube, with recordings available for both the FUKUOKA and TOKYO stages.

Invited as a speaker in the "Meijin-Samvad" webinar series hosted by the Mizuho India Japan Study Centre at IIM Bangalore, where I gave a talk on Manga, Anime, and Games.

Released "Griffith Stopwatch" "AnimeCraft Stopwatch", a derivative product of the storyboard authoring tool Griffith developed at Arch Inc.

At the newly established course Non-Research Tips for Information Science Researchers at The University of Tokyo, I was in charge of two sessions: "Research community" and "DevOps for research".

Attended the Annecy International Animation Film Festival and got to know "toolsmiths" in the industry.

Presented Griffith: A Storyboarding Tool Designed with Japanese Animation Professionals in the "Design Tools B" session from 14:00 Mon, May 13 at ACM CHI 2024.

Started my sabbatical-like year as a Visiting Scientist at Université Paris-Saclay. I belong to ex)situ and conduct research on methods and tools for creativity support.

ACM SIGGRAPH Asia '24 Technical Communications Best Paper Award for the co-authored paper of techniques behind Forest Tale

Mizuho India Japan Study Centre at IIM Bangalore, Meijin-Samvad webinar series, "Impact & Synergy of Manga, Anime, and Video Games: Japanese Soft Power’s Impact on Global Markets - Positive? Negative? Balanced?" panelist

The University of Tokyo Non-Research Tips for Information Science Researchers Guest Lectures "Research community" and "DevOps for research"