Gateball

Here, perspective of a video camera view and perspective of a 3D-Computer Graphics camera view are colliding.
Consequently, the images were interestingly distorted.

I shot one scene, which shows people playing Gateball in a wide open field, from the point where I could view the whole area with a wide angle lens.
I brought the video footage into 3D Computer Graphics space.
Here it was shown on the surface of a rectangular plane.
I re-shot some particular areas of the moving image on the plane by using a 3D-CG camera which can be located at any position.

The low quality of the movie images are due to the above making-process.
It is inevitable.

  • Yoshiki Nishimura
    Director
  • Project Type:
    Experimental
  • Runtime:
    4 minutes 5 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    September 1, 2014
  • Country of Origin:
    Japan
  • Country of Filming:
    Japan
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital, HD
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Laboratorium, 19th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival
    Jihlava
    Czech Republic
    October 31, 2015
    world premiere
    the permanent collections of CDF, the Center for Documentary Film
Director Biography - Yoshiki Nishimura

Yoshiki Nishimura (Mr.)

Born in Nagoya, Japan

Undergraduate: Tohoku University / Electronic Engineering, Sendai, Japan

Graduate: Institute of Design / Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA

Worked at TAISEI Corp., Tokyo for creating computer graphics simulated images.
Currently teaching at Dept. of Media Arts and Film, Tohoku University of Art
and Design, Yamagata City, Japan.
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Activities

1986　 "the Symphony Hall" (Computer Graphics animation), NCGA '86, International Computer Graphics Animation Competition,
Anaheim, USA (a work for Taisei Corp.)

1991　"the Ancient City Revisited" (Computer Graphics animation)
the Electronic Theater, SIGGRAPH '91,　Las Vegas, USA (a work for Taisei Corp.)

1994　"a Serpent in Falefa I,II,III." (Photo & Computer Graphics)
Still Picture Award in Computer Graphics, Multimedia Grand Prix '94, Tokyo, Japan

1995　"METAL I,II" (Photo & Computer Graphics)
Still Picture Award in Computer Graphics, Multimedia Grand Prix '95, Tokyo, Japan

1997 "Doodling" (Photo & Computer Graphics)
The 2nd Tokyo International Photo-Biennale

2000 "FRAMING INDONESIA" (photo & Computer Graphics )
Solo Exhibition, NIKON SALON, Ginza, Tokyo & NIKON SALON, Umeda Osaka

2002 "Transposition III.
(digital print 375cm x 34cm, Photo & Computer Graphics)
Art Gallery, SIGGRAPH2002, San Antonio, USA

2005 "Parallax I.
(digital print 540cm x 80cm, Photo & Computer Graphics )
Japan Media Arts Festival, Art Division Jury Recommended works, Tokyo

2007 "Observation of Space "
(digital print 270cm x 88cm, Photo & Computer Graphics )
Japan Media Arts Festival, Art Division Jury Recommended works, Tokyo

2009 "Walking on the Seashore II" （Computer Graphics / Video）
Animation Festival ARS Electronica,
PRIX ARS Electronica, Linz, Austria

2010 "Walking on the Seashore II"
(Cmputer Graphics/Video)
EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL, OSNABRUECK, GERMANY,

2011 "in Kepler's dream"
(Computer Graphics animation )
EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL, OSNABRUECK, GERMANY

2013 "an Observation"
( Video & Computer Graphics)
a short film exhibition "Canal Grande",
BAWAG P.S.K. Contemporary, Vienna,
Austria

2013 "an Observation"
( Video & Computer Graphics)
IFF (International Film Festival) XXIII Message to Man, Saint Petersburg, Russia
the Experimental Competition section, IN SILICO

2013 "an Observation"
( Video & Computer Graphics)
17th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Jihlava, Czech Republic
Official Selection: Fascinations, 2013

2014 "Fascinating Moments"
( Video & Computer Graphics)
18th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Jihlava, Czech Republic
Official Selection: Fascinations 2014
(selected for the collections of CDF, the Center for Documentary Film)

2014 "an Orchestra in the Sky"
(Computer Graphics & Video)
Laboratorium, 18th Jihlava International
Documentary Film Festival

2015 "Orbiting"
( Computer Graphics & Video)
19th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Jihlava, Czech Republic
Official Selection: Fascinations
(selected for the collections of CDF, the Center for Documentary Film)

2015 "Gateball"
(Computer Graphics & Video)
Laboratorium, 19th Jihlava International
Documentary Film Festival
(selected for the collections of CDF, the Center for Documentary Film)

2015 "an Orchestra in the Sky"
(Computer Graphics & Video)
13th Signes de Nuit at Paris, France, Nov-Dec. 2015

etc.

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Director Statement

What is the experimental in a Computer Graphics medium?

Computer Graphics expression keeps evolving fast as long as our computer-based civilization going. There must be lots of experimental elements in this medium because new technologies inevitably create new statements.
However, these statements are often buried in Hollywood's movie-making act.
Just change the vector! The Computer Graphics expressions have lots of possibility of being experimental and art.

The problem is its making process. Computer Graphics is totally a Black-Box for people who are not familiar with it. So, sometimes it is hard to understand the experimental elements involved in the works.