Sniff Sniff (くんくん) Animated Music Video

Direction | Art Direction | Storyboard | Animation | Character Design | Compositing | Backgrounds
2024

An animated music video created for HoYoFair 2025 (January 1, 2025), featuring Jing Yuan and Mimi, his white snow lion, from Honkai: Star Rail.

 

The Honkai: Star Rail HoYoFair 2025 was designed to be a program full of music videos. I pitched the story and concept of Mimi and JIng Yuan and the song and lyrics were created around it and the storyboards for it. 

Team:

Director, Storyboard, Character Design

Kamille Areopagita

 

Animation

Kamille Areopagita

Artisminerva

Mookie Tamara

Kevin Areopagita

Jett Vaultz

 

Background Art

Huey Lye

Suto

Caroline Chiou

Kamille Areopagita

 

Original Song: “Sniff Sniff (くんくん)”

Music Producer: inosoo

Vocal: 町田ちま  

Lyrics: 藤田HANA

Composing: Hugo & inosoo

Arrangement, Mix & Mastering: Hugo

 

As the lead on this project, I was in charge of the concept, storyboard, direction, and design for the MV, working closely with the HoYoFair team to portray the Honkai: Star Rail characters within the story of Mimi as hinted at and told through in-game lore. I put together a small team of animators and background artists and served as director and animation lead over 3 months of production.

character designs

With existing official and in-game art, pre-production entailed creating character designs suitable for animation while also retaining core character elements and interpreting designs for various ages and alternative outfits.