Launched "AnimeCraft", a branded website for creativity support tools for anime production

We presented "A Practical Style Transfer Pipeline for 3D Animation: Insights from Production R&D" and received the Best Paper Award at the Technical Communications program of ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 (Graphinica, Inc. project page; Arch Research event page)

Jun proposed the interactive session titled "R&D for Anime Production: Collaborative Cultural Craft of Art, Science, and Engineering" which was accepted as one of the Birds of a Feather sessions at ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 (2024/12/6 14:15-15:15 JST); Arch Research is also involved in the Technical Communications presentation on applying style transfer techniques in the production pipeline (2024/12/5 13:12-13:25 JST)

Released Griffith Stopwatch AnimeCraft Stopwatch, a web-based stopwatch for anime creators.

Jun presented "Griffith: A Storyboarding Tool Designed with Japanese Animation Professionals" in the Design Tools B session at ACM CHI 2024, which is the first-ever archival academic paper from Arch Research! (see also: Griffith)

Jun participated in AIST Creative HCI Workshop as a speaker and panelist, presenting our research efforts to support anime production through Griffith, a storyboarding tool

Ryotaro will participate in International Manga Anime Festival Reiwa Toshima 2023 as a speaker of the session "Current global and local condition of anime studies"

Jun will give a talk at an invited session (2023/8/23 11:20-12:20 JST) at CEDEC 2023, the largest conference on sharing technologies and insights on game development in Japan; the talk will be jointly held with Graphinica Inc. to introduce our research and development effort

Jun was awarded 2023 Distinguished Young Researcher Award from Japan ACM SIGCHI Chapter

Griffith project page is updated to reflect its latest progress thanks to the J-LOD subsidy of VIPO

Ryotaro published an essay paper titled "How an Animation Production Studio Survived the Pandemic" in the Journal of Business Anthropology Vol.11 No.2

Jun was invited to provide a short presentation titled "Call for 'Anime' Research(er)" in the CG in Japan session at ACM SIGGRAPH 2022

Presented "Past, Present, and Future of Toolsmiths in Japanese Animation" at SAS 2022

Griffith project proposal was chosen again for the J-LOD subsidy of VIPO, sponsored by METI (acceptance rate: 38.5%)

Jun provided a poster presentation titled "Griffith: Prototype of A Web-based Tool for Authoring Japanese Anime Storyboards" and received Best Poster Award at ISID 2022

Griffith project page is updated to reflect its latest progress thanks to the J-LOD subsidy of VIPO

Jun proposed the panel session titled "R&D for Anime Production: State-of-the-Art and Future Prospects" which was accepted as one of the featured sessions at ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2021 (2021/12/16 13:00-14:00 JST); He has also served as the Real-Time Live! (RTL) Chair, leading the RTL session in the conference (2021/12/17 10:30-12:30 JST)

Nao, Jun, and Ryotaro will participate in the German anime convention CONNICHI and contribute to a panel session titled "How Academics Contribute to Anime's Future" (2021/9/4 15:45-16:45 CEST)

Griffith project proposal was chosen for the J-LOD subsidy of VIPO, sponsored by METI (acceptance rate: 36.8%)

Participated in Otaku Summit 2020 (Tokyo 2020 Certified Cultural Olympiad) as speakers of the seminars "The Global Expansion of Anime Business" (Nao) and "The Future of Anime Industry through Asia" (Ryotaro)

Presented "Past, Present, and Future of Storyboarding in Japanese Animation" in the Anime session of SAS 2021

Jun was awarded Early Career Contributions to Global Research from IPSJ and ACM

Jun gave an invited talk and presented a poster (which got Best Poster Award) at ISID 2021

Open-sourced fabricjs-layer, part of a lightweight layer implementation for Fabric.js used in the experimental version of Griffith Sketch

Open-sourced react-color-modal, a lightweight color picker component for React used in Griffith

Started distributing Animation Technology 2020 Spring and all of the back numbers at pixiv BOOTH

Open-sourced fabricjs-psbrush, a pressure-sensitive brush implementation for Fabric.js used in Griffith Sketch

Published Animation Technology 2020 Spring at TechBookFest Online

Released Griffith Sketch, a web-based lightweight tool for sketching and sharing ideas

Published Animation Technology 2019 Autumn at TechBookFest #7

Presented Griffith at a domestic workshop on computer graphics

Launched the English website

Published Animation Technology 2019 Spring at TechBookFest #6

Launched the website