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Hiromi Watanabe
The present work was inspired by its background music that gives an abstract impression of personal feelings. The music - which is computer generated - was composed by Makoto Kobayashi, a personal friend of Hiromi Watanabe.
The three-minute sequence was produced over a period of three months, using Wavefront, Abel Images and custom HighTech software, running on Iris and Culler machines. (H. Watanabe)
Hiromi Watanabe, graduated in 1982 from Kuwazawa School of Design in graphic design. From September through December 1982, Hiromi Watanabe worked as a free-Iance graphic designer for magazines, as illustrator, designed posters etc. From 1983 to 1985 she worked in the computer graphics sector with Toyo Links, Tokyo, mainly producing the graphics for TV commercials and special effects for movies. The necessary techniques were trained on site. In 1986, Hiromi Watanabe was under contract with Japan Victor Corp., where she again produced computer graphics, stressing mainly on computer animated versions of the traditional Japanese Noh-drama. This is when she acquired her programming techniques. Since 1987 she has been working for HighTech Lab. Japan, at Tokyo, producing computer graphics and developing new techniques. Besides that she is under contract with C.T. Co. Ltd., who develops specialized techniqes for ray traces imaging.