Sayonara
2011
Experimental Short, 3min 40sec
A short story about two unlikely friends saying goodbye. A young man named Charles just lost his home. He spends one last day with his best friend, a sea turtle, before moving on.
This graduation project was made while at the Kyoto University of Art and Design. It brings together a lot of the research I had done over the three years I spent in Kyoto, and is based abstractly on my own experiences living in Japan. Most of the concepts relate somehow to my experiences, friends, foods, things I saw, and things I felt over this time; in particular the idea of saying goodbye to close friends.
Directed by
Eric Bates
Puppeteer/ Sound Editing
Rulo
Sky Paintings
Yuki Murabayashi
Lacquer Transfer Textures
Judith Umana
Motion Tracking Assistant
Jeon Tae Hwan
3D Stereo Consultant
Masayoshi Arimoto
Taisei Enterprise
Media Services
Kasuo Hirose
Kazuyoshi Tsuji
Shineisha Company
Special Thanks
Ayumi Bates
Yasu Suzuka
Hirokazu Sato
Masahiro Kashima
Robert Boland
Kyoto University of Art
Monbukagakusho
