Animation Director・Machine Learning Engineer
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Selected work
Tegaki follows Nozomi, an animator whose craft and sense of self are shaken when she brings AI tools into her studio. Inspired by an anime artist ostracized after moving toward AI, the film follows the rupture between Nozomi and her childhood friend Mia, who sees the same tools as a way to widen creative access. It is a story about fear of replacement, the cost of community, and whether traditional and hybrid practice can meet in the same room.
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5 Requests Per Second (5 RPS) is a dark yet humorous take on the `fake it till you make it` startup culture in the tech industry, about a fraudulent tech startup founder who travels to Japan to amass millions of dollars from investors by creating vaporware demos and fake growth metrics.
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Remote Startup Senpai continued the Venture project after Venture was acquired by 555 Comic Co.. It is currently an Instagram page of animation shorts, with the character designs created by Takeyukimi.
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Notes from the desk
An engineering notebook on the Electron and Next.js boundaries, revisioned project graph, immutable media, generation jobs, timelines, and explicit cloud edges behind Production Desk.
A personal account of making Tegaki, from an old feature screenplay and AI backlash to a finished short released for the Higgsfield film festival.
The completed and released English-subtitled film, and a detailed account of turning fear into a work through screenplay writing, storyboards, animation foundations, manual correction, Suno, and machine-assisted production.
Technical practice / selected experience
AI/LLM・MLOps・Engineering Leadership・Full-stack Development
Engineering Manager, AI/LLM Team
Machine Learning Engineering Manager / Tech Lead · Series Creator / Showrunner
MLE/SRE Tech Lead
New work / collaborations
For directing, animation, visual development, or an early conversation about a story still taking shape.
contact@akiyamasho.com ↗