I stumbled across this artist around 2 years ago on one of my trips to Forbidden Planet @ Tottenham Court Road Branch . Unknown to me at the time, this artist had an affiliation with another of my favourite artists Tanaka Tatsuyuki via STUDIO4℃, a Japanese animation studio.

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This animator mainly works freelance these days making music videos and other shorts. He has worked with the Wachowski Brothers to direct “Beyond”, a segment of The Animatrix and is said to be working on another short movie ‘Sachiko’, his second feature-length film.

I love his style, probably more than Tanaka’s and thats a feat! I like the way he plays on perspective and the way limbs almost look disjointed at times yet seem to make sense. He has similar sinister undertones as Tanaka and some clever page layouts. For example one page features a neatly cut hole of around 2cm in diameter. The image surrounding the hole and the the page visible behind it complete the illustration. On the other side of the page u realise that the illustration that you just looked at (in particular the now hidden page opposite the hole) completes the illustration on the reverse side of the page with the hole ….. hopefully that makes sense .

His wacky illustrations are depicted with clean crisp lines of beige, red, turquoise, and black and his ability to render buildings and tekkie devices is amazing! You should take a look at (or even better buy) his book Orange in order to fully appreciate his works.

More recently whilst Hunting down more works by this artist I found these animations on YouTube:

…Enjoy!!

A few of the scenes from this short are used in the book Orange. Nice paralax scrolling effect@1min10secs…. genius!!

Recent works:
http://www.catsuka.com/kojimorimotodotnet_news.php?news=1270491768

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http://www.catsuka.com/kojimorimotodotnet_news.php?news=1268002742

More on Studio4°C
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_4°C

Studio4°C Website (in Japanese)
http://studio4c.co.jp/top.html

Koji Morimoto (森本晃司, Morimoto Kōji) info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dji_Morimoto