*Just in case you miss it, there’s a short sequence after the credits. 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. More on the making of Sayonara here; vimeo.com/​24676900 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 Borland Kyoto University of Art Monbukagakusho Cast: Eric Bates

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