Anime & Short-Film Scoring
Original scores for anime, animated shorts, and live-action short films — music that poeticises stories rather than merely accompanying them.
Anime · Animation · Short Film · Isekai · Emotional · Poetic
My Philosophy
Anime taught me that music can make the unspeakable visible. The moment a character understands something they can never undo — that is where a score must already be waiting. Not underlining what the image says. Arriving before it.
For short films, every second of picture carries disproportionate weight. I work from the director's vision, building themes that develop across the arc, honouring the intimacy of the form rather than inflating it.
My work draws on classical training from Paris conservatories and deep engagement with Japanese aesthetic sensibility — the beauty found in transience, the depth beneath stillness — combined with Nordic restraint. A score can hold both the grandeur of an isekai climax and the silence after a quiet, devastating revelation.
Emotional Storytelling
Every theme is composed as a character's inner life made audible. Motifs that carry weight, develop with the arc, and leave a resonance that outlasts the final frame. The score is not decoration — it is part of the structure.
Piano as the Narrative Voice
Piano is at the heart of each score — intimate where intimacy is needed, expansive at the climax, silent in precisely the right moments. It is the instrument closest to breath, and the one most capable of carrying what a character cannot say.
Japanese Aesthetic Roots
Drawing on anison sensibility, classical counterpoint, and the contemplative tradition of Japanese art music — scores that feel genuinely Eastern in spirit without superficial execution. The quiet ache of something irretrievably lost. Not a decorative idea — a compositional tool.
Short-Film Precision
Short films demand economy. Every cue must earn its place. I compose to picture, synchronising with editorial rhythm and working collaboratively with directors from first sketch to final mix.
Instrumentation
Scoring to Raw Animation
Animatics, storyboards, unfinished cuts — scored with full intention
In animation production, the score often precedes the finished picture. CGI pipelines are long. Animatics are rough. This is not an obstacle — it is where compositional work becomes most revealing.
Scoring to raw animation requires reading intent from pacing, dialogue rhythm, and sparse movement — composing toward an emotional arc that the image has not yet delivered. It demands more imagination than scoring to polished visuals, not less. This is also how professional animation scoring works: music locks before full renders, shaping the edit rather than following it.
I accept briefs at every stage of production. A locked animatic is sufficient to begin thematic development. Early storyboard sequences are sufficient to establish the emotional palette and character motifs. A score begun on rough material has time to become part of the work — not an addition applied afterward.
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Anime & Short-Film Scoring
Frequently Asked Questions
Both. The page title reflects where most commissions originate, but I score live-action short films with equal care. The common thread is narrative intimacy — music that serves a story rather than decorating it.
I write music that arrives before the emotion is stated — it does not explain, it anticipates. This means composing toward the feeling a scene is moving into, not underlining what the image has already shown. Piano is the primary voice; the orchestra is built around it.
Yes. I compose in Anison, J-pop, and contemporary classical styles for themes, and full incidental scores for in-episode cues. Each is treated as a distinct compositional challenge.
I compose to picture wherever possible, working with your animatic or rough cut to ensure musical phrasing aligns with editorial rhythm. For projects still in storyboard phase, I compose thematic material and establish the emotional palette for later synchronisation.
Yes — all collaboration is remote. I have worked with creators across Europe and Asia. Correspondence in French, English, and basic Japanese is possible.
Jyväskylä, Central Finland. All scoring work is delivered digitally worldwide.
Bring your story to life.
Whether you are working from a finished picture or a rough animatic that has not yet found its sound — share what you have. The music can begin earlier than you think.