RealMorimoto

Studio 4°C and Koji Morimoto's latest animated shill-short for Nike's ever expanding custom shoe line. Concrete playground kaleidoscope! Gaze enthralled as three roof-hop sell-cyphers bring cascading colour into your tennis shoe free lives. Wonderfully fluid world-roof racing; puts me in the mind of Sega smash Jet Set Radio gaming, and Blighty menace Spring Heeled Jack. Smiling! More please.

Watch Tatsuyuki Tanaka!

Rooting around the interwebs, I found myself a couple of Tatsuyuki Tanaka shorts. Tanaka, you may know as the author of the rather splendid artbook Cannabis Works. Other than that his CV is very hard to get a grip on. He's done storyboard work for Studio 4 °C, was a key animator on Akira, and has a short in the compilation sequel Genius Party Beyond. Tanaka's work tends to feature exceptionally well observed slouch frames moored in a steam-machine clutterscapes AND BEYOND! Misleading pat generalisation wise, I'd go Katsuhiro Otomo meets Paul Pope. It's all the clean lines.

Anyway, the shorts:

First a Nike advert, featuring an animeheroic LeBron James.

Lastly, an Utada Hikaru music video excerpt.

Here, have the Genius Party Beyond trailer too!