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Animation

Tegaki (2025)

[coming soon]
Role
DirectorProducerWriterAnimatorBackground Artist

Remote Startup Senpai (RSS) (2022-2024)

Remote Startup Senpai is a remake/continuation of Venture after partnering up with 555 Comic Co. It is currently an Instagram page of animation shorts, with the character designs created by Takeyukimi.
Role
DirectorShowrunnerWriterAnimator

Venture Anime [Episode 1.1] (2020)

Venture is an anime series set at an international tech startup in Tokyo, where Japanese and foreign staff go through their day-to-day lives working on engineering and business challenges as a small team. The first short episode (Episode 1.1) has won awards and official selections at the following international film festivals: ・ Five Continents International Film Festival (Venezuela) - Winner (Best Young Director, Best Web Series, Best Animation Short Film Original Score) ・ Alternative Film Festival (Canada) - Winner (Spring Award, Best Animation) ・ Couch Film Festival (Toronto, Canada) - Winner (05:01 - 10:00 minutes, Best Animation) ・ Best Animation Award (UK) - Winner (TV Series) ・ Lonely Wolf: London International Film Festival (London, UK) - Award Nominee (Best Character Design) ・ Athens International Monthly Film Festival (Greece) - Honourable Mention ・ Indie Short Fest (Burbank/Hollywood, USA) - Award Nominee (Best Web Series/TV Pilot) ・ IndieX Film Fest (Burbank/Hollywood, USA) - Award Nominee (Best Web Series/TV Pilot & Best Animation Short) ・ Filmhaus Berlin (Germany) - Award Nominee (Best Animation) ・ Independent Shorts Awards (Burbank/Hollywood, USA) - Finalist ・ Best Indie Film Award (UK) - Finalist ・ Košice International Monthly Film Festival (Slovakia) - Finalist ・ Prague International Monthly Film Festival (Czech Republic) - Official Selection ・ Hollywood Golden Age Film Festival (Hollywood, USA) - Official Selection ・ X World Short Film Festival (Rome, Italy) - Official Selection
Role
DirectorProducerWriterAnimatorBackground ArtistVoice Actor

Venture Anime [Pilot Episode] (2020)

Venture's pilot episode has won awards and official selections at the following international film festivals: ・ KINNO (Russia) - Winner (Queen Category) ・ Indie Short Fest (Burbank/Hollywood, USA) - Nominated for Best Web Series/TV Pilot, Best Animation Short, and Best Sound Design ・ IndieX Film Fest (Burbank/Hollywood, USA) - Nominated for Best Animation Short ・ Independent Shorts Awards (Burbank/Hollywood, USA) - Honourable Mention for Best Web Series/TV Pilot ・ Prague International Monthly Film Festival (Czech Republic) - Honourable Mention for Best Animation ・ Couch Film Festival (Toronto, Canada) - Finalist ・ Košice International Monthly Film Festival (Slovakia) - Finalist ・ Lift-off Showcase: Online Extravaganza (Slough, UK) (Online) - Official Selection ・ Moscow Shorts International Short Film Festival (Russia) - Official Selection ・ Tokyo Lift-off Film Festival (Tokyo, Japan) - Official Selection
Role
DirectorProducerWriterAnimatorBackground ArtistVoice Actor

Moon (2019)

Moon is a short film based on Natsume Soseki’s famous line, "The moon is beautiful". It was an official selection at 2019 Mt. Fuji-Atami Film Festival and 2019 Tokyo Lift-off Online Film Festival.
Role
DirectorProducerWriterAnimatorBackground ArtistVoice Actor

Brighter (2018)

Brighter is a short film based on Paramore’s 2005 song of the same title. Aside from being a form of artistic expression, this short film is also a research project on improving the efficiency without sacrificing the quality and feel of traditional, frame by frame Japanese animation using 3d modeling guides, motion capture, and deep learning (AI) libraries.
Role
DirectorProducerWriterAnimatorBackground Artist

We Have to Grow Up (2017)

We Have to Grow Up is a short film about gracefully surrendering the things of youth. It was my first attempt to release a complete short animated film.
Role
DirectorProducerWriterAnimatorBackground ArtistVoice ActorMusical Performance

Film/Theater

YearTitleRole
2017
Karton (Cardboard Box)
A short film produced by Revery Films about the harsh realities of modern Philippine society.
Actor (Main Character)
2015
Bonifacio and the Freak Show
A musical about a different take on the history of Andres Bonifacio, a Philippine national hero, from the perspective of local mythical creatures.
Actor (Main Character)
2014
Overheard@UP Short Films
A series of short films produced by Revery Films which consist of adaptations of popular posts from the University Facebook group, Overheard at UP, which is a community for sharing fascinating and interesting sights and sounds from the University of the Philippines.
Actor