About Us
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At Toei Zukun Laboratory, we seek to pursue what can create for the future and how we can utilize our innovation in imaging technique in practical use.
“Design the Future”; that is the mission of Toei Zukun Laboratory.
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“ZUKUN” is a coined word from a german term “zukunft,” which means “future”. Toei Zukun Laboratory has a role as a research department of Toei Digital Center which integrates video post-productions for the Toei group. Our project is not limited to CG, VFX, and post-production, but goes beyound pre-production and production.
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Name: | Toei Zukun Laboratory |
Location: | Higashi Ooizumi 2-34-5, Nerima-ku, Tokyo, Japan 178-8666 ACCESS & CONTACT |
TEL: | 81-3-3867-5029(from overseas) 03-3867-5029 (within Japan) |
FAX: | 81-3-3867-5041(from overseas) 03-3867-5041(within Japan) |
Studio: | Toei Tokyo Studio |
Post production: | Toei Digital Center |
Name: | Toei Company Ltd. |
Location: | Ginza 3-2-17, Chuou-ku, Tokyo, Japan 104-0061 |
Established: | 1949, October 1st. |
Capital | 11.7 billion 7,090,000 2,928 yen |
First section market of Tokyo Stock Exchange and Osaka Stock Exchange | |
President and representative director: | Osamu Tezuka |
Number of employees as of March 1st 2019: | 343 |
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HISTORY of ZUKUN
西暦 | 研究所沿革 |
2009 | Start “Digital Center preparation room” within Toei Tokyo Studio |
2010 | Start “Zukun Laboratory” within Toei Digital Center |
2011 | Start motion capture permanent studio
Start research development of facial capture system Rejuvenation face retouch YOUTUBE Production of initial head mount camera Planning and production of demo movie “Rebellions” YOUTUBE |
2012 | Development of original facial capture system “Facial Edit System(FES)”
YOUTUBE Start of post recording X facial capture inspection and service YOUTUBE Planning and production of demo movie “Mikoshi” YOUTUBE Broadcast of tv program “Unofficial Sentai Akibaranger” WORKSページ |
2013 | Exhibit at SIGGRAPH 2013
Release of movie “009 no 1: THE END OF THE BEGINNING” WORKSページ |
2014 | Moved the motion capture permanent studio to Toei Tokyo Studio
Introduction of real time composition system “PREVIZION” YOUTUBE Release of movie “Kikaider Reboot” WORKSページ Open a dome video attraction Toei Kyoto Studio Park”Digital Deep Sea Aquarium” WORKSページ |
2015 | Start image based facial capture service
Announce the development status of multi camera type head mount camera YOUTUBE |
2016 | Start research development of virtual production
Development of real time work flow “Unreal Stage” YOUTUBE1 YOUTUBE2 Won the CG World Awards Technology award |
2017 | Start research development of original real time camera tracking and composition system “LiveZ studio”
Selected to Innovative Technologies+ 2017 by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry Start research development of multi camera type new version head mount camera |
2018 | Officially announce “Digital Human Project”
Press Broadcast Netflix TV “Mob Pschyco 100” WORKS |
2019 | Launch of LightStage research and development
The first public exhibition of Digital Goshi Takashima at the 3rd AI Expo Tokyo Presentation for a visualization session at Autodesk University Japan 2019 Articles Demonstration of Digital set and LiveZ studio at Toei Kyoto Studio Park Digital Set+LiveZ studio |
2020 |
Launch of new system for LiveZ studio |
2021 |
Increased the amount of cameras & expanded the capture area in the Motion capture Studio Start LightStage service |