Nobody talks about this one. A single episode about a barista making espresso, rotoscoped frame by frame until the mundane becomes hypnotic. The animation doesn't beautify the moment, it strips it down, watches the pour, the crema, the steam curl with the kind of attention usually reserved for something that matters. What matters here is that someone decided it did. By the end you understand why the person who commissioned this needed you to see it exactly this way.

Barista Hibiki Fujioka commissioned espresso, a single-episode short released online. The piece is made with rotoscoping, a technique that gives the animation its distinctive look. Rather than a full series, it stands as a brief commissioned work in a single installment.