{"id":210392,"date":"2025-12-01T22:57:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T22:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/210392\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T22:57:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T22:57:12","slug":"tomohiro-okazakis-paper-study-transforms-a-quotidian-material-into-mesmerizing-animations-colossal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/210392\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomohiro Okazaki&#8217;s &#8216;Paper Study&#8217; Transforms a Quotidian Material into Mesmerizing Animations \u2014 Colossal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From pieces of everyday white paper, a series of delightful stop-motion animations illuminates how a simple material can be transformed into a sophisticated design. Created by Japenese designer Tomohiro Okazaki, who runs a studio called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingdesign.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">SWIMMING<\/a>, \u201cPaper Study\u201d is a series of short intervals in which pieces of cut, folded, and sculpted paper appears to move on its own.  Flat sheets transform into voluminous structures before collapsing back into a single plane, and arches, circles, and myriad other shapes move in sync. <\/p>\n<p>Okazaki is known for his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/tags\/tomohiro-okazaki\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">playful optical animations<\/a> using matches and other household objects. See more on SWIMMING\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@swimming1681\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">YouTube channel<\/a> and the designer\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingdesign.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1124\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/paper-study-3.jpeg\" alt=\"A still from a video of animations made from white pieces of paper in different cut shapes and arrangements\" class=\"wp-image-466275\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/paper-study-2.gif\" alt=\"An animated gif of a square piece of paper with circular holes that appear to be moving around on their own\" class=\"wp-image-466276\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Do stories and artists like this matter to you?<\/strong> Become a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/members\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"118516\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colossal Member<\/a> now, and support independent arts publishing.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Hide advertising<\/li>\n<li>Save your favorite articles<\/li>\n<li>Get 15% off in the <a href=\"https:\/\/colossal.shop\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colossal Shop<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Receive members-only newsletter<\/li>\n<li>Give 1% for art supplies in K-12 classrooms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From pieces of everyday white paper, a series of delightful stop-motion animations illuminates how a simple material can&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,366,18,117,19,17,17452,11580,89944,115064,836],"class_list":{"0":"post-210392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-optical-illusion","18":"tag-paper","19":"tag-stop-motion","20":"tag-tomohiro-okazaki","21":"tag-video"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115646788340624248","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}