Why do motion graphic artists pay attention to details?
Should I call him a friend? Or maybe a roommate?
Sako, another personality living in the same brain, was creating motion graphics.
He imitated the opening CG of a popular documentary produced by a broadcasting station in Osaka, Japan, to introduce his friend.
He says he has never met that friend and doesn't even know if he really exists.
I can't understand the mentality of calling someone you've never met a friend, but it seems that Noter users immediately call people who share the same hobbies and tastes their friends.
I suddenly used an unfamiliar term such as “Noter,” but this refers to people who use a literary-oriented social networking site called “note,” which has about 63 million users in Japan.
Noter is basically someone who enjoys writing, and once a year, they participate in a project called “Creative Writing Contest,” where they write and submit poems, essays, research articles, reports, novels, etc., or write complaints to share their frustrations with their friends.
My roommate in my head, Sako, also often writes about his work complaints and spends his days being comforted by his colleagues and Noters in completely different positions.
Sako has been working on motion graphics since March.
He is basically a fast worker and belittles himself by saying that he is “just fast and sloppy,” but there is also a theory that he actually dislikes people who work slowly, so no one knows what he really thinks.
There is a reason why he spent nearly two months creating the graphics.
It's the usual vertical type.
He had previously created something similar to the opening CG of a popular documentary produced by a broadcasting station in Osaka.
A friend who joined the company at the same time was getting married, and he made a video introducing how they met and their work to show at the wedding party.
However, nearly 20 years have passed since then, and the opening CG currently being broadcast has become quite complex.
He carefully analyzed the graphics frame by frame while watching the recorded broadcast to find out what was going on.
Then, just as I was about to start drawing storyboards,
He was speechless when he saw the video sent to me by a friend on social media that he is going to introduce in this clip.
The video was vertical.
That's right. Like me, he has been working with horizontal angles for nearly 40 years. That's why he was confused when he received the video in vertical format.
But this is a good opportunity.
At times like this, we should use the Noter's standard phrase, “Dagashikasi.” That aside.
Having decided to take on vertical CG, Sako began analyzing Osaka broadcasting stations' CG to see how it could be converted to vertical format.
The deliberations were extremely difficult.
Sako consulted with a veteran photographer colleague, but he also said it would be very difficult.
And in the end, he decided to create completely different motion graphics with similar images.
And today, he finished the motion graphics.
He wrote a long script for the documentary, but since vertical videos are generally considered short, he cut it down to less than a minute.
Sako, I hope your hard work pays off and many Noters will smile.
In Kagoshima, where the rainy season has already begun, Josh Owens
