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{{Orphan|date=October 2019}}
{{Infobox film
| director       = Takashi Fukumoto
| producer       = Takashi Fukumoto {{small|([[Toyo Links|Toyolinks Corporation]])}}<br>Hitoshi Nishimura {{small|([[Osaka University]])}}
| studio         = [[Osaka University|Osaka University Computer Graphics Research Group]]<br>Toyo Links Corporation<br>Bio-Meta Team
| released       = {{Film date|1984}}
| runtime        = 4 minutes
| country        = Japan
}}

{{nihongo|'''''Bio-Sensor'''''|バイオセンサー|Baiosensa}} is a 1984 Japanese animated [[Surrealist cinema|surreal]] [[short film]] produced by Takashi Fukumoto at Toyo Links and Hitoshi Nishimura at [[Osaka University]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://cgworld.jp/regular/002-kimura.html|title=日本にフルCGアニメは根付くのか？:第 2 回：木村 卓（アートディレクター、CG アーティスト） {{!}} 連載 {{!}} CGWORLD.jp|work=CG・映像の専門情報サイト {{!}} CGWORLD.jp|access-date=2018-05-05|language=ja-JP}}</ref> It's notable for its early use of primitive [[motion capture]], using profile and head-on films of a tiger walking (a la [[Eadweard Muybridge|Muybridge]]).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://img-lib.musabi.ac.jp/search/index.php?app=sakuhin&mode=edit&data_id=8079|title=Bio Sensor - 武蔵野美術大学 美術館・図書館 イメージライブラリー所蔵 映像資料データベース|last=|first=|date=|website=img-lib.musabi.ac.jp|language=ja-JP|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2018-05-05}}</ref>

==Crew==
* Producer: Takashi Fukumoto (Toyo Links), Hitoshi Nishimura ([[Osaka University]])
* Digitizers: Hiroyuki Hayashi, Masuharu Endo, Taku Kimura, Noriaki Murashima, Chiharu Kajitsuka, Shinji Tanaka, Hiroshi Yoshimura, Koji Ichihashi

===Special thanks===

====Osaka University====
* Koichi Omura
* Isao Shirakawa
* Makoto Hirai
* Masato Nishida
* Takashi Yamana
* Nariyoshi Yamai
* Hirohisa Wakai

====Nippon Electronics College====
* [[Yoichiro Kawaguchi]]
* Suma Noji
* Yuzuru Nakamura

==French parody==
'''''Sio-Benbor''''' is a 1988 French parody of Bio-Sensor, created by a French company, Fantôme. It's notable for having a “really cute kitty” cat.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://histoire3d.siggraph.org/index.php/Sio_Benbor|title=Sio Benbor — Histoire 3D Wiki|website=histoire3d.siggraph.org|language=fr|access-date=2018-05-05}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|id=8378588}}
* {{YouTube|id=gCgKh3vtOD0|title=''Bio-Sensor'' and its French parody}}

[[Category:1984 films]]
[[Category:1984 anime films]]
[[Category:1984 short films]]
[[Category:1984 computer-animated films]]
[[Category:Japanese short films]]
[[Category:Japanese computer-animated films]]
[[Category:Films using motion capture]]
[[Category:1980s Japanese films]]


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