Ryo Kitabatake

Ryo Kitabatake joined WOW after a career in creative roles in mass communication at a global e-commerce company. He excels at extracting core messages and crafting unique solutions by merging client insights with his own perspective. By utilizing diverse execution methods, from digital-based cutting-edge visuals to authentic documentary-style communication, he designs communication strategies that effectively convey messages. Leveraging his bilingual skills in Japanese and English, Ryo leads a wide range of domestic and international projects.

Credits

Creative Director:Kousuke Oho
Director:Ryo Kitabatake
CG Designer:Taishi Yagyu (dep MANAGEMENT), Takuma Sasaki, Ryouichi Kuboike
Producer:Go Hagiwara

Agency:ORANGE AND PARTNERS
Director of Photography:Nobuaki Imura (IMURA OFFICE)
Lighting & Gaffer:Koji Yoshino (LightNix inc.)
Volumetric:Yasunori Aoki (Sony)
Matchmove Artist:Yasuhiro Kato
Hair & Make-up Artist:Rie Aoki
Stylist:Miki Nakamura
Casting Director:Hisashi Shibuya (Kettle)
Location Coordinator:Hajime Nakagaki (Groove)
Color Grading:Haruna Okutsu (IMURA OFFICE)
Off-line Editor:Fumihito Endo (jitto)
On-line Editor:Akio Sakamaki (jitto)
Music:Tokio Noguchi, Natsuki Yamada (Aozora)
Mixer:Katsuyuki Yamada (Onkyo House)
Production Manager:Sanchu, Naoki Atarashi

Mitsubishi Electric 100th Anniversary “Create new value together”

Mitsubishi Electric | 2021
WOW produced a television commercial for Mitsubishi Electric, which celebrated its 100th anniversary.
Based upon the catch copy, “Create new value together,” WOW expressed the unknown possibilities that exist in a future in which the individuality of each of the company's employees is multiplied. WOW fused the profound feelings that uniquely apply to Mitsubishi Electric with its long history and the feelings of expectation for a bright and individualistic future. WOW then finalized it all into an impressive work.

Credits

Creative Director:Kousuke Oho
Director:Ryo Kitabatake
CG Designer:Taishi Yagyu (dep MANAGEMENT), Takuma Sasaki, Ryouichi Kuboike
Producer:Go Hagiwara

Agency:ORANGE AND PARTNERS
Director of Photography:Nobuaki Imura (IMURA OFFICE)
Lighting & Gaffer:Koji Yoshino (LightNix inc.)
Volumetric:Yasunori Aoki (Sony)
Matchmove Artist:Yasuhiro Kato
Hair & Make-up Artist:Rie Aoki
Stylist:Miki Nakamura
Casting Director:Hisashi Shibuya (Kettle)
Location Coordinator:Hajime Nakagaki (Groove)
Color Grading:Haruna Okutsu (IMURA OFFICE)
Off-line Editor:Fumihito Endo (jitto)
On-line Editor:Akio Sakamaki (jitto)
Music:Tokio Noguchi, Natsuki Yamada (Aozora)
Mixer:Katsuyuki Yamada (Onkyo House)
Production Manager:Sanchu, Naoki Atarashi

Credits

Direction & Visual Design:Ryo Kitabatake / Takuma Sasaki
Colorist:Masahiro Ishiyama
Volumetric Capture:Dimension Studio
Executive Producer:Hiroshi Takahashi
Producer:Ko Yamamoto
Assistant Producer:Ken Ishii

Music and Sound Design:Max Cooper
Mastering:Chris McCormack
Publisher:Manners McDade Music Publishing

Contour

Motion Graphics|2021
Dim wilderness and a man who continues to walk in the same area as if dragging his tired body. The man’s afterimages float in space to form a giant agglomeration and cover the man’s head. On land, tentacles cling to the man as if blocking him from walking. Eventually, the man falls to the ground and sinks into his inner world.

Modern people, constantly exposed to information and living together with complicated human relationships. Our self-recognized outlines and boundaries fluctuate, change, and dissolve. A film depicting humans living this repetition with a foreign vividness.

This is an original film by a unit of Ryo Kitabatake and Takuma Sasaki, who received the Best of Stash, Gold Telly Award. The latest filming technology volumetrics were used, it was shot at Dimension Studio in London, and the music was created by Max Cooper.

Max Cooper
Few have been so successful in interrogating and furthering the intersection between electronic music, visual art, technology and science in the past decade as Max Cooper. Collaborating with multi-disciplinary artists, and institutions like the Barbican, Zaha Hadid Architects and Dolby Atmos, Cooper has developed a mixed-media approach to the creation of immersive light installations, psycho acoustics, surround visuals, and electronic music.
Max Cooper

Dimension Studio
Dimension provides revolutionary volumetric and real-time production studios for the creation of next-generation Virtual Production, Digital Humans,  and XR content. With production studios based in UK and US, and mobile stages that operate worldwide, we are focused on shaping the future of virtual entertainment.
Dimension Studio

Telly Awards
Silver on Non-Broadcast: Craft-Visual Effects
Silver on Non-Broadcast: Craft- Art Direction

Vimeo
Staff Pick

Credits

Direction & Visual Design:Ryo Kitabatake / Takuma Sasaki
Colorist:Masahiro Ishiyama
Volumetric Capture:Dimension Studio
Executive Producer:Hiroshi Takahashi
Producer:Ko Yamamoto
Assistant Producer:Ken Ishii

Music and Sound Design:Max Cooper
Mastering:Chris McCormack
Publisher:Manners McDade Music Publishing

Credits

WOW
Director:Ryo Kitabatake
CG designer:Ryo Kitabatake, Takuma Sasaki, Hironobu Sone
Programmer:Shunsaku Ishinabe
Producer:Yasuaki Matsui
Assistant Producer:Kanako Kaeriyama

Music:Masato Hatanaka

©2018 ISSEY MIYAKE INC.

Shape with a world

BAO BAO ISSEY MIYAKE|2018
BAO BAO ISSEY MIYAKE is a bag with a revolutionary concept and manufacturing method which, by combining pieces, allows an unlimited number of shapes with no restrictions.

The changes in form enabled by the triangular structure coincidentally allow the consumer to experience beauty, fun, and surprise. Combined with a practicality that makes these bags suitable for all kinds of scenes in your daily life.

In “Shape with a world,” BAO BAO ISSEY MIYAKE’s concept of infinite shapes, is expressed with natural objects and phenomena as a motif. New meaning and beauty are added to the phenomena made abstract by BAO BAO ISSEY MIYAKE's structure, creating a unique world. Going further, this is a piece that seeks to create a unique and organic form brought forth by the triangular construction.

BAO BAO ISSEY MIYAKE OFFICIAL WEBSITE

Credits

WOW
Director:Ryo Kitabatake
CG designer:Ryo Kitabatake, Takuma Sasaki, Hironobu Sone
Programmer:Shunsaku Ishinabe
Producer:Yasuaki Matsui
Assistant Producer:Kanako Kaeriyama

Music:Masato Hatanaka

©2018 ISSEY MIYAKE INC.

Credits

Director : Ryo Kitabatake
CG designer : Takuma Sasaki, Ryo Kitabatake
Producer : Yasuaki Matsui
Assistant Producer : Kanako Kaeriyama
Music : Masato Hatanaka
Agency / Production : Mori Inc. / Light Publicity Co., Ltd.

POLA Wrinkle Shot Medical SerumN TVCM

POLA | 2020
Since it started in 2017, POLA's Wrinkle Shot Medical Serum, a medicated cosmetic product become popular as a pioneer in wrinkle reduction. WOW was in charge of direction and CG production for the televised commercial which will be renewed in January 2021.

We used dynamic and delicate fluid effects to express the imposing appearance of Wrinkle Shot, a leader in wrinkle reduction, and its renewal is changing the industry.

Credits

Director : Ryo Kitabatake
CG designer : Takuma Sasaki, Ryo Kitabatake
Producer : Yasuaki Matsui
Assistant Producer : Kanako Kaeriyama
Music : Masato Hatanaka
Agency / Production : Mori Inc. / Light Publicity Co., Ltd.

Credits

WOW TEAM
Director:Ryo Kitabatake
Visual Designer:Tsutomu Miyajima, Takuma Sasaki, Tai Komatsu (cai)
Executive Producer:Hiroshi Takahashi
Producer:Ko Yamamoto
Assistant Producer:Reiko Katayama
Production Manager:Shinya Shimizu

SHOOT CREW
Director of Photography:Senzo Ueno (TOKYO)
Stills Photographer:Asaki Koshikawa
Gaffer:Keisuke Ikeda
Motion Control (BOLT):Juri Yasuda (Rocket)
Grip:Tetsu Kaneko (Rocket)
DIT:Shingo Takahashi
Hair & Make-up:RYU
Stylist:DAN
Special Make-up:Amazing JIRO
Casting:Shunsuke Fukuda (e-spirit)
Production Vehicle:Yasutoshi Shima (BONDS)

POST PRODUCTION
3D Facial Capture:avatta
HDR Supervisor:Fumihiko Kamemura
Match Move Artist:Yasuhiro Kato
CG Producer:Joe Fukushima (cai)
Retoucher:Yoshiaki Sakurai
Making Of:Harunobu Mitsui

Offline / MAV studio:IMAGICA
Online/Composite/Color Grading:Akio Sakamaki (jitto)

Music:Test Flights
Music Producer:Manato Kemmochi (GRANDFUNK)

FUTURE NAVIGATION

TEIJIN|2018
The TEIJIN GROUP 100th Anniversary Project, jointly presented by KITCHEN&COMPANY, MIKATA, and WOW. The announcement of “FUTURE NAVIGATION” as a global message. At the same time, they are establishing “THINK HUMAN PROJECT,” and pursue the “improvement of QOL of humans in the future” through nine experimental projects.

WOW was in charge of the production and creation of TVCM and OOH as part of the announcement of “FUTURE NAVIGATION.” In order to express this project, in which TEIJIN tried to rethink humanity from new and multiple perspectives, we constructed visuals and a story based on the idea to break the general one of humanity down to unknown. What distinguishes humans from "things"? How do humans interact with the environment? What does it mean for humans to live like humans? It is a creation that challenges these questions, which have no clear answers, through various areas and expressions. We have aimed to create a quirky yet beautiful world boldly and delicately by reconstructing a sensitive motif.

TEIJIN LTD's special 100th year anniversary site

Credits

WOW TEAM
Director:Ryo Kitabatake
Visual Designer:Tsutomu Miyajima, Takuma Sasaki, Tai Komatsu (cai)
Executive Producer:Hiroshi Takahashi
Producer:Ko Yamamoto
Assistant Producer:Reiko Katayama
Production Manager:Shinya Shimizu

SHOOT CREW
Director of Photography:Senzo Ueno (TOKYO)
Stills Photographer:Asaki Koshikawa
Gaffer:Keisuke Ikeda
Motion Control (BOLT):Juri Yasuda (Rocket)
Grip:Tetsu Kaneko (Rocket)
DIT:Shingo Takahashi
Hair & Make-up:RYU
Stylist:DAN
Special Make-up:Amazing JIRO
Casting:Shunsuke Fukuda (e-spirit)
Production Vehicle:Yasutoshi Shima (BONDS)

POST PRODUCTION
3D Facial Capture:avatta
HDR Supervisor:Fumihiko Kamemura
Match Move Artist:Yasuhiro Kato
CG Producer:Joe Fukushima (cai)
Retoucher:Yoshiaki Sakurai
Making Of:Harunobu Mitsui

Offline / MAV studio:IMAGICA
Online/Composite/Color Grading:Akio Sakamaki (jitto)

Music:Test Flights
Music Producer:Manato Kemmochi (GRANDFUNK)