IKIF

IKIF, or ISHIDA KIFUNE IMAGE FACTORY (石田木船映像工場 / Ishida Kifune Eizō Kōjō) are an animation team made up of Sonoko ISHIDA (KIFUNE) and her husband Tokumitsu KIFUNE established in 1979.

Website: http://www.ikifplus.co.jp/ikif/ 

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ikif8838 

• they started off making independent animation on 8mm and 16mm

• they are know for their experimental animation and video installations using a variety of analogue and digital techniques 

• after purchasing an Amiga computer in the late 1980s, they became involved in CG animation production. 

• 1997 IKIF + established.  In addition to their independent work, they have been at the forefront of 3DCG animation since the dawn of the technology and have their own company IKIF PLUS .

• they have done computer animation for such notable works as Patlabor: the Movie (Mamoru OSHII, 1989)  in the early days of the technology to  doing 3DCG supervision for the early 3DCG Doraemon movies in the 2000s.

• they have held numerous video workshops at museums and other venues across Japan 

• they are members of JASA and JAA

Sonoko ISHIDA ( 石田園子), b. 1959

• 1981 graduated from Tokyo Zokei University with a degree in Visual Design

• 1981 joined Tomy Co. where she worked in the planning and design of character toys and other goods.

• 1997 Part-time animation lecturer at Tokyo Zokei University

• 2001 Full-time animation professor at Tokyo Polytechnic University (Kougei).

• 2003 Tokyo Polytechnic University establishes its animation department

• 2024 retirement from Tokyo Polytechnic University 

website profile: http://www.ikifplus.co.jp/ikif/2015_09_26/199/ 

Tokumitsu KIFUNE (木船徳光), b. 1959 

• first year of art school at Ochanomizu Art Academy 

• 1980 graduated from Tokyo Zokei University with a degree in painting

• worked in digital animation in a variety of roles including helping produce a pilot for a digital animation system for Toshi9o MATSUMOTO and doing  pixel art for Famicom

• taught animation at Nippon Design College and at a vocational school in Sendagaya

• Professor of Animation at Tokyo Zokei University  

• 2024 retirement from Tokyo Zokei University

 website profile: http://www.ikifplus.co.jp/ikif/2015_09_24/3/