This is a music video that looks like someone finally trusted an animator with a real budget and got out of the way. Kousuke Sugimoto's visual language is so precise and alive that it makes you forget you're watching a single song, not a short film. The animation moves with the same confidence as the track, each frame deliberately placed, nothing wasted. Watch it with people who actually care about what animation can do when it stops apologizing for existing.

Kousuke Sugimoto, an independent animator whose work has earned award nominations, created this high-definition music video for Handsome Kenya's track "Korekuraide Utau". The short piece considers how many choices lie open to us and how limitless our possible actions are, and it shows that even slight changes in a decision can lead down a very different road.