{"rewrite":{"id":"r_5da144af12cbf07b75c8eb1e","clusterId":"c_8b7e5104e9e6eeb0497c1e8f","slug":"hanabushi-draws-key-visual-for-cgworld-2026-creative-conference","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Hanabushi Draws Key Visual for CGWORLD 2026 Creative Conference","summary":"The CGWORLD 2026 Creative Conference runs December 6 at Ariake Central Tower Hall \u0026 Conference in Tokyo, free with advance registration. Animator and character designer Hanabushi drew the key visual under the theme \"Creators connect. Beyond that.\" The first session round includes Framestore on its VFX work for \"Project Hail Mary,\" Riot Games and Agora Community on facial animation, Whatever Co. on the Kao horror game \"Shizukana Osouji,\" and Universal Entertainment on amusement machine video made with Unreal Engine.","whyItMatters":"The session slate puts overseas VFX houses, a game studio and a Japanese ad-agency-produced horror game in the same program, which tells you where CG creators are being asked to look for work right now.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eHanabushi\u0026#39;s visual shows engineers exchanging ideas and trying and erring, in line with the theme. Hanabushi has worked on key animation, animation direction and character design at Toei Animation, directed music videos for ZUTOMAYO including \u0026#34;Study Me,\u0026#34; \u0026#34;Darken\u0026#34; and \u0026#34;Not a Lie,\u0026#34; and created \u0026#34;Piggy One,\u0026#34; which is being developed into the game \u0026#34;Piggy One SUPER SPARK.\u0026#34;\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe program leans on production case studies rather than talks. Framestore handled more than 1,000 VFX shots for \u0026#34;Project Hail Mary\u0026#34; and will explain how it built the spacecraft interior, gravity environments and characters. Whatever Co. will use prototypes and production data to trace how \u0026#34;Shizukana Osouji,\u0026#34; made as an advertising measure for Kao, became a game played on stream and a Nintendo Switch release, and won the Grand Prix at the YouTube Works Award and a Cannes Lions in 2026.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Hanabushi's CGWORLD 2026 key visual lands on a speaker list built around Riot Games, Framestore, and Whatever Co. The conference's drawing power now runs through game and VFX studios, not animation alone.","twitterPost":"Hanabushi draws the CGWORLD 2026 visual while Riot Games and Framestore fill the speaker list. The event's center of gravity is game and VFX work.","threadsPost":"Hanabushi's CGWORLD 2026 key visual sits above a session list where Riot Games, Framestore, and Whatever Co. carry the programming. For an anime-adjacent artist, the booking places the work beside game and VFX studios rather than animation peers.","newsletterBlurb":"The CGWORLD 2026 Creative Conference takes place December 6 at Ariake Central Tower Hall \u0026 Conference in Tokyo, with free admission by advance registration. Hanabushi drew the key visual on the theme \"Creators connect. Beyond that.\" The first session round includes Framestore on its VFX for \"Project Hail Mary,\" Riot Games and Agora Community on facial animation, and Whatever Co. on the Kao horror game \"Shizukana Osouji.\"","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"KAI-YOU\",\"url\":\"https://kai-you.net/article/96875\",\"title\":\"Animator Hanabushi Creates Visual for CG Creator Event \\\"CGWORLD 2026\\\"; Riot Games and Others to Speak\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4655,"outputTokens":743,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1792403533,"createdAt":"2026-10-19T09:47:23.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-19T09:51:07.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-19T09:51:07.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_8b7e5104e9e6eeb0497c1e8f","canonicalTitle":"アニメーター はなぶし、CGクリエイターの祭典「CGWORLD 2026」ビジュアルを制作　Riot Gamesら登壇","representativeArticleId":"a_7072e2301a5d005352c05fc4","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"CGWORLD 2026 Creative Conference\"],\"studios\":[\"Riot Games\"],\"people\":[\"Hanabushi\"],\"type\":\"event\",\"domain\":\"industry\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-10-19T08:30:00.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-10-19T08:30:00.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-19T09:51:06.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"KAI-YOU","url":"https://kai-you.net/article/96875","title":"アニメーター はなぶし、CGクリエイターの祭典「CGWORLD 2026」ビジュアルを制作　Riot Gamesら登壇"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["CGWORLD 2026 Creative Conference"],"studios":["Riot Games"],"people":["Hanabushi"],"type":"event","domain":"industry","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}