Koji Morimoto
Koji Morimoto works with Nike on their latest NikeID promo.
Low res below, high rest at YouTube. Thanks to comrade Jason Ho at Lucasfilm for the link. Lovely animation style.
Morimoto sensei has worked on the following titles (taken from ANN).
Ai Monogatari (OAV) : Director (Hero)
Akira (movie) : Assistant To Chief Animator
Ashita no Joe 2 (movie) : Key Animation
Ashita no Joe 2 (TV) : Key Animation
Avenger (TV) : Producer
Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohanihoheto (TV) : Producer
Beyond (OAV) : Chief Director
Blue Submarine No.6 (OAV) : Key Animation
Bobby's Girl (movie) : Key Animation
City Hunter (TV) : Key Animation (OP)
Comedy (OAV) : Animation
Connected (OAV) : Director
Dagger of Kamui (movie) : Key Animation
Digital Juice (OAV) : Director (Aerial Bar)
Dimension Bomb (movie) : Director
Dirty Pair: Project Eden (movie) : Key Animation (OP)
Eternal Family (TV) : Director, Screenplay, Character Design, Production Design
Extra (OAV) : Director
Fist of the North Star (TV) : Key Animation
Four Day Weekend (OAV) : Director
Gaki Deka (TV) : Storyboard (ep 16), Episode Director (ep 16)
Galaxy Angel (TV) : Producer
Galaxy Angel A (TV) : Producer
Galaxy Angel Z (TV) : Producer
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Solid State Society (movie) : Corporate Production (Bandai Visual)
Goku: Midnight Eye (OAV) : Key Animation
Golgo 13: The Professional (movie) : Key Animation
.Hack//Legend Of The Twilight (TV) : Producer
.Hack//Roots (TV) : Producer
.Hack//SIGN (TV) : Producer
.Hack//Unison (OAV) : Producer
Harmagedon (movie) : Key Animation
Innocent Venus (TV) : Planning
Kekko Kamen (OAV) : Director (Op)
Kiki's Delivery Service (movie) : Key Animation
Lensman (movie) : Mechanical design, Key Animation
Macross Plus (OAV) : Animation director (concert)
Macross Plus Movie Edition : Concert Scene Animation
Magnetic Rose (movie) : Director
Makoto-chan (movie) : Animation
MazinKaiser (OAV) : Producer
Mind Game (movie) : Animation director
Mirai Keisatsu Urashiman (TV) : Key Animation (eps 26, 33)
Mix Juice "Jigen Loop - SOS Rescue Version" (OAV) : Director
New Getter Robo (OAV) : Producer
Noiseman Sound Insect (movie) : Director, Character Design, Animation Supervisor
(The) Order to Stop Construction (movie) : Original Picture
(The) Phoenix: Chapter of Ho-o (movie) : Key Animation
Please Teacher! (TV) : Producer
Please Twins! (OAV) : Producer
Please Twins! (TV) : Producer
Robonimal Panda-Z: The Robonimation (TV) : Producer
Robot Carnival (OAV) : Director ("Franken's Gears")
Roujin Z (OAV) : Key Animation
Sachiko (movie) : Director
Space Adventure Cobra (TV) : Storyboard, Key Animation
Space Adventure Cobra - The Movie : Key Animation
(The) Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love? (movie) : Key Animation
Survival 2.7D (OAV) : Director, Character Design, Animation Supervisor, Production Design
Tekkonkinkreet (movie) : Storyboard
Time Stranger (OAV) : Key Animation
Tobé! Kujira no Peek (movie) : Director, Script, Storyboard
Tobira o Akete [1995] (OAV) : Director, Script, Animation director
Unico (movie) : Animation
Urarochi Diamond (TV) : Director, Screenplay
Zettai Shonen (TV) : Producer
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三年せいとオタク
Amazing animation! We need more promos like that here in the states. D:
Student
not just promos, commercials and tv in general! i would want to participate in lotion curling!
university film student | ecchikid | the Archivist
http://www.vimeo.com/longhim
Don't really like the animation style, but I love the concept - spreading colour, with each character representing one of the primary colours. The overhead view of rippling pools of colour was amazing.
Student artist
http://www.requestview.wordpress.com
Also the background music
NEET part-time - Technical Support Officer - Network security engineer
http://burugureibi.blogspot.com/
wow. 2D characters interacting in a 3D environment - Very cool
Student, part-time slave
http://yakuri.wordpress.com/
Pretty damn good.
Student
http://marianto.deviantart.com/
He was there at AFA 08 last year in Singapore. Amazing guy ^^
Student artist
http://www.requestview.wordpress.com
Kind of remind me of Animatrix series
Blogger, consultant
http://www.netharuka.com
You beat me to it. It definitely seemed like it was an episode out of Animatrix. As NIKE commercial goes, it's pretty tame. I still like this one the best (though it isn't animated): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4YQfsWP2sA (no rick roll)
Freeter
http://50yen.livejournal.com
He was actually the director of the short "Beyond" in the Animatrix.
Network Administrator
You can find it here in higher resolution (just turn your speakers down). Click on "Into The City":
http://nike.jp/nike_id/blazer/
http://www.marvinryan.com
nice, but I still like the super sentai one you posted a while back better. ^^
Studio Bleach founder/owner
http://myspace.com/studiobleach
:O
Ditto here! XD
http://akari-nyan.deviantart.com/
That high res with spreading the colours idea was awesome!
Game Designer
http://www.ahbonk.net
Agreed! Speaking of which Danny, have you considered embedding the high-res version instead? I know that you'd wanna consider the low-bandwidth users, but connections are getting faster these days rite (though Malaysia's ISP is still an ***).
Also, low-res doesn't do justice to the great Morimoto Koji!
In case u didn't know, here's the link: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10104549-2.html. That is for HD versions. For just high-quality version (like the video above), change fmt%3D22 to fmt%3D18 in 2 parts of the code. Hope that helped!
free lance otaku, full time Protector of Peace.
really nice characters..
Programmer
Top-notch animation, love the colors, overall a cool advert just to look at.
Student
http://anime.scripts.mit.edu/miteiru/
Wooow.. that was too good for words.. :'O
otaku-ist
http://myanimelist.net/profile/mel
music and colors @_@
流浪人
Excellent! ^_^
College Freshmen
That looks really cool, something you can actually make an anime for. And that's a impressive list, but I still don't know what it is a producer does.
student
yeah!! koji morimoto!! he's awesome
カタイ－ガクセイ
Some of his projects kind of scare me in a way. o.o The Studio 4 degrees Celsius kind of reminds me of a short series they played on Cartoon Network once here in the states. I dont really remember it.. But there were kids in some big abandoned city.. And the animation was rather strange.. If anyway has -any- idea what Im talking about, you should let me know.. Id like to watch it again. >_>
Animation Student
abandon? Hmm...
could you be referring to Tekkonkinkreet/ tekkonkinkurito ?
THere are 2 male leads(boys) called Kuro and Shiro. Is it the animation?
Dropping computers, starting all over again at Journalism
http://xspblog.com
The Tekkonkinkreet movie is kinda recent...
I'm guessing it's Noiseman Sound Insect.
Unfortunately, YouTube only has the spanish subbed version... but here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVcBFocIVJY
カタイ－ガクセイ
Nope, neither..
I remember it being a lot.. Darker. o.o
???Confused???
very nice animation...
Student
http://sanguinerose.wordpress.com/
Awesome work!
Dropping computers, starting all over again at Journalism
http://xspblog.com
Studio 4C is just awesome... made a series of posts on my blog with their animations:
http://xspblog.com/?s=studio+4c+punch
http://xspblog.com/?s=studio+4c+digital+juice
They are also making the new Street Fighter animation... I love their random crazy style.
Student, Otaku, She-Geek(Sheek lol)
http://meimi132.wordpress.com/
Sugoi....
I wonder what the odds of this advert being shown in england are..... wish we got more like this.
Student
http://shockerz.wordpress.com/
I don't really like the character design for this but I do like the concept behind it. Spreading colors through out the black and white city.
Pirate cat
http://www.artbypavel.com
Studio 4C are full of Awesomesauce per usual
Student
http://anime.tedfox.com/
awesome stuff
the initial scenes kinda reminds me of bleach for some reason, must be the standing in mid-air phenomenon...^^
vendor
http://www.friendster.com
Great sound,animation and CG effects, where could i find that shoes? i like to wear nike.
Student | J-Drama beau
http://www.emikro.de.vu
Nice idea but I am not impressed :/
Student
Original, it's nice :)
Daigakusei [Consular and Diplomatic Affairs]
http://dixinfernal.wordpress.com
cool-o!!!
make's me wanna buy a nike^^
i wish all promos were like this~ so eye catching and entertaining to watch:D
浦の引き篭り
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/3219/haruhimemew.gif
It kinda reminds me of Okami when you return colours and life to the land.
Pretty nice :3
Student during the day, otaku at night, and amateur musician ^_^
http://www.thebanzaieffect.com/
Woah, cool!
Promos like this can go far..
Dance Trooper: DCX-001 O.D.E. (Order of the Dancing Empire)
http://dannychoo.com.my
nice concept of the trio colors~~~
Student
Cool CM. Works well with the background music. And wow, Morimoto sensei has worked with a lot of titles!
Game Designer
http://www.ahbonk.net
Awesome animation, awesome music, awesome characters, just plain awesome. Yea timid compared to his other works, but still a lovely treat for the eyes!
Did you see the subtle Studio 4°C advertising there? Oh Morimoto sensei, aren't you a cheeky one!
Wow. They need to bring some of that stuff here; although I don't really like the look of the characters.
Consultant
Ohh, yea I saw the subtle ad for Studio 4C.
Supreme Commander of NERV Co.
This is simply awesome. I like the colours
College student, Mech programmer and striving photographer.
http://moeforme.blogspot.com
Yea apart from the character design, I like the video. Animation is good and its full of color inducing seizures ^^
Cool animation.. Nice colors..
Software Developer
http://www.otakutimes.com
Amazing animation. More ads like this, and less of guys kicking footballs around, please Nike.
Student.
http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/profile/Yuusuke-kun/
Haha nice!!
we need more of that here definitely
Student/Teacher
http://japanman.wordpress.com
The music sounds like SimCity gone crazy. Pretty cool stuff.