"Connected Ink 2024" has come to a close.
We are excited to announce that next year’s event is scheduled for Friday, November 14, and Saturday, November 15, 2025.
Highlights from this year’s event are available now on our YouTube channel. Don’t miss it!

Timetable

Timetable

Day 2 (11.16)

12:30- Reception open (13:00~ Gate open)

Day 2 (11.16)

12:30- Reception open (13:00~ Gate open)
13:15-13:30
Main Stage

 

Beyond the Pen: A Developer’s Tale
Hiroshi Kato, Yasushi Komatsu, Shungo Sato (Pilot Corporation)
Takuma Ikeda, Ryuto Sakamoto, Ayumi Nishizawa (Wacom)

The collaboration between PILOT and Wacom has now reached its fourth year. In 2023, they released the "Dr. Grip Digital for Wacom🄬," marking a new milestone in their partnership. Having created unique experiences that blend digital and analog, what future are these two companies aiming for next? This session will share behind-the-scenes stories from their development journey, along with new concepts. We’ll also discuss future plans and insights into how this collaboration will shape the creative world ahead. .

 

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13:15-13:30
Main Stage

 

Beyond the Pen: A Developer’s Tale
Hiroshi Kato, Yasushi Komatsu, Shungo Sato (Pilot Corporation)
Takuma Ikeda, Ryuto Sakamoto, Ayumi Nishizawa (Wacom)

The collaboration between PILOT and Wacom has now reached its fourth year. In 2023, they released the "Dr. Grip Digital for Wacom🄬," marking a new milestone in their partnership. Having created unique experiences that blend digital and analog, what future are these two companies aiming for next? This session will share behind-the-scenes stories from their development journey, along with new concepts. We’ll also discuss future plans and insights into how this collaboration will shape the creative world ahead. .

 

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13:30-13:45
Main Stage

 

HANDWRITING X DIGITAL NOW - SERVICES IN 2025
Noritaka Houri, Jun watanabe

Will introduce the concept of handwriting x digital, the current status of research, and give an overview of the services and digital pencil to be released in 2025.

 

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13:30-13:45
Main Stage

 

 

HANDWRITING X DIGITAL NOW - SERVICES IN 2025
Noritaka Houri, Jun watanabe

Will introduce the concept of handwriting x digital, the current status of research, and give an overview of the services and digital pencil to be released in 2025.

 

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14:00-14:30
Mini Stage

 

Interface that blends into daily life

mui Lab is a Kyoto-based startup that proposes a "future lifestyle" in which people, nature, and technology are in harmony. In order to offer a comfortable smart home, we value to combine the latest technology with primitive experiences that move people's hearts. One of them is the handwriting function using Wacom digital ink. We will talk about what it means to engrave the words of a family in their daily spaces.

 

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14:00-14:30
Mini Stage

 

Interface that blends into daily life

mui Lab is a Kyoto-based startup that proposes a "future lifestyle" in which people, nature, and technology are in harmony. In order to offer a comfortable smart home, we value to combine the latest technology with primitive experiences that move people's hearts. One of them is the handwriting function using Wacom digital ink. We will talk about what it means to engrave the words of a family in their daily spaces.

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14:30-15:00
Mini Stage

Koryo High School students' ordinary days

Using Wacom pentablets for drawing a contemporary-style caricature of a high school student's ordinary days. Tried to create simple and lively line drawings, referring to the ink lines of “Birds and Animals Caricatures". As for the exhibition plan, tried to reproduce a scene of laundry being hung out to dry, so that viewers could peek into more personal episodes of the ordinary days.

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14:30-15:00
Mini Stage

 

Koryo High School students' ordinary days

 

Using Wacom pentablets for drawing a contemporary-style caricature of a high school student's ordinary days. Tried to create simple and lively line drawings, referring to the ink lines of “Birds and Animals Caricatures". As for the exhibition plan, tried to reproduce a scene of laundry being hung out to dry, so that viewers could peek into more personal episodes of the ordinary days.

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15:15-15:40
Main Stage

 

KISEKI ART 2024 "Dinamics during Creation"
Nobu Ide (Wacom), Hiroshi Tamano (Wacom), Hajime Asada (Wacom), Jeff Ko (Wacom)
Tetsuro Kato (Preferred Networks), Masaaki Fukuda (Preferred Networks)
Kei Narushima (Celsys), Ryo Inaba (Celsys)
ktym (Illustrator)

Thanks to the further deep learning and analysis of KISEKI Data, we tried to capture dinamics of creators during their creation process.
We would like to also present use case senario of KISEKI ART during the session.

 

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15:15-15:40
Main Stage

 

KISEKI ART 2024 "Dinamics during Creation"
Nobu Ide (Wacom), Hiroshi Tamano (Wacom), Hajime Asada (Wacom), Jeff Ko (Wacom)
Tetsuro Kato (Preferred Networks), Masaaki Fukuda (Preferred Networks)
Kei Narushima (Celsys), Ryo Inaba (Celsys)
ktym (Illustrator)

Thanks to the further deep learning and analysis of KISEKI Data, we tried to capture dinamics of creators during their creation process.
We would like to also present use case senario of KISEKI ART during the session.

 

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 15:45-16:10
Main Stage

 

Wacom Yuify - Proof of Creation -


Secure your authorship and manage your digital rights using Wacom Yuify. Use Wacom Yuify to embed an invisible Micromark into your digital artwork before sharing your content. This establishes a robust link from your artwork to your creation record in Yuify.

 

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15:45-16:10
Main Stage
 
Wacom Yuify - Proof of Creation -

Secure your authorship and manage your digital rights using Wacom Yuify. Use Wacom Yuify to embed an invisible Micromark into your digital artwork before sharing your content. This establishes a robust link from your artwork to your creation record in Yuify.

 

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16:15-17:00
Main Stage

 

Live demo of hand-painted Koinobori
(carp banner)


The members of the Koishi-kai will take turns to paint the 2-meter Koi Nobori (carp banner). Although they have been pursuing the same field of koinobori, their works were so different from each other. Can they make a single carp banner together?

 

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15:45-16:10
Main Stage
 
Live demo of hand-painted Koinobori
(carp banner)

 

The members of the Koishi-kai will take turns to paint the 2-meter Koi Nobori (carp banner). Although they have been pursuing the same field of koinobori, their works were so different from each other. Can they make a single carp banner together?

 

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17:30-17:55
Main Stage

 

Game creator's ordinary days and making those into a game
Kazuhide Oka(Game creator)
Shin Imai(IGN Japan)

 

Kazuhide Oka, creator of “Moonless Moon,” which will be exhibited at the venue, and Imai of IGN JAPAN, who curated the exhibited works, will participate in a talk session. The session will delve deeply into the relationship between “games” and “ordinary days,” asking what kind of ordinary days game creators lead and how those lead to the games they create.

 

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17:30-17:55
Main Stage

 

Game creator's ordinary days and making those into a game
Kazuhide Oka(Game creator)
Shin Imai(IGN Japan)

Kazuhide Oka, creator of “Moonless Moon,” which will be exhibited at the venue, and Imai of IGN JAPAN, who curated the exhibited works, will participate in a talk session. The session will delve deeply into the relationship between “games” and “ordinary days,” asking what kind of ordinary days game creators lead and how those lead to the games they create.

 

 

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18:00-18:25
Main Stage

 

"Ingredient"

An event spin-off from Tokyo Anim Unite (11/9-10). Two Hollywood animators will present a number of quick drawings reflecting on the life of their careers to date. There are many turning points in their lives that have had a major impact on their work. Please enjoy the episodic talk.

 

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18:00-18:25
Main Stage

 

"Ingredient"

An event spin-off from Tokyo Anim Unite (11/9-10). Two Hollywood animators will present a number of quick drawings reflecting on the life of their careers to date. There are many turning points in their lives that have had a major impact on their work. Please enjoy the episodic talk.

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19:00-19:15
Main Stage

 

Performance - “Ordinary Days of Aerial Straps”
Ogano-cho Art Performance Team

The ordinary days of a man who has been in Cirque du Soleil for 14 years. A man whose days is aerial strapping, which is an extraordinary thing. The ordinary days of a man who moved to Ogano-cho. A man whose ordinary days have become an extraordinary life that is completely different from that of Tokyo. The extraordinary days of Hideto Okuzawa and Masashi Onishi, who perform in a circus kabuki. 

 

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19:00-19:15
Main Stage

 

Performance - “Ordinary Days of Aerial Straps”
Ogano-cho Art Performance Team

The ordinary days of a man who has been in Cirque du Soleil for 14 years. A man whose days is aerial strapping, which is an extraordinary thing. The ordinary days of a man who moved to Ogano-cho. A man whose ordinary days have become an extraordinary life that is completely different from that of Tokyo. The extraordinary days of Hideto Okuzawa and Masashi Onishi, who perform in a circus kabuki. 

 

 

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19:15-19:40
Main Stage

 

Special sketch class - the ordinary days of Shinjuku

Yoriko Ito

A special edition of a sketching class by Yoriko Ito, a concept artist active in the Hollywood CG animation industry. The members will go out into the streets of Shinjuku at the opening of Connected Ink and draw ordinary day life in Shinjuku on the day of November 16. In the evening, the works will be introduced along with Ms. Ito's talk. Also, the sketches will fly around the night sky of Shinjuku leveraged by AR technology.

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19:15-19:40
Main Stage

 

Special sketch class - the ordinary days of Shinjuku 

Yoriko Ito

A special edition of a sketching class by Yoriko Ito, a concept artist active in the Hollywood CG animation industry. The members will go out into the streets of Shinjuku at the opening of Connected Ink and draw ordinary day life in Shinjuku on the day of November 16. In the evening, the works will be introduced along with Ms. Ito's talk. Also, the sketches will fly around the night sky of Shinjuku leveraged by AR technology.

 

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19:45-20:00
Main Stage

 

Dance performance - "Ordinary Days"

Team IMPALA

"This country was built on pushing things forward. We just kept going and going and going and making things up as we went along. Somewhere along the way, that became “Ordinary Days.” This lovable stupidity is expressed in a sad and humorous way.

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19:45-20:00
Main Stage

 

Dance performance - "Ordinary Days"

Team IMPALA

"This country was built on pushing things forward. We just kept going and going and going and making things up as we went along. Somewhere along the way, that became “Ordinary Days.” This lovable stupidity is expressed in a sad and humorous way.

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20:00-20:20
Main Stage

 

Collaboration performance - "Ending ,.”

NORA
IMPALA
Takashi Itagaki
ktym
Hajime Fukuda
Shinnosuke

"“Ordinary Days - with many thanks for this lovely sceneries that contain everything.”

 

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20:00-20:20
Main Stage

 

Collaboration performance - "Ending ,.”

NORA
IMPALA
Takashi Itagaki
ktym
Hajime Fukuda
Shinnosuke

"“Ordinary Days - with many thanks for this lovely sceneries that contain everything.”

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20:20-20:30
Main Stage
 
Ending

This is the closing of the two-day event that run under the theme of “Ordinary Days". We would like to express our gratitude to all those who participated and were involved in the event, as well as to share our thoughts on the future of the event.

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20:20-20:30
Main Stage

 

Ending

This is the closing of the two-day event that run under the theme of “Ordinary Days". We would like to express our gratitude to all those who participated and were involved in the event, as well as to share our thoughts on the future of the event.

Register now