TAKKUN MUSEUM

The future sharing way of family photos may be like this. I thought "I want to do it too" because it led to the idea of a photo album service one step ahead that not only to experience the content given the XR world but also to arrange and enjoy it individually. This work reminded me of the possibility of blending into such daily life that it would be customary to look back on this before going into the daughter's marriage and cry in goggles.

Takkun Museum is a world made from the imagination and memories of a small child. It is simple, but also very powerful. Takkun leads you into a theatre, where his giant drawings perform to you on stage, with Takkun’s singing and cute animations, before you go on a journey through his early childhood. To me, there was a very strong effect of being transported to a different world and feeling small, like we are also just a memory of Takkun. The project is also ambitious: it combines 360 and 2D video, animated characters, choreographed performance, typography, photogrammetry, 3D models of rooms, spatial audio. Almost all of these are produced from Takkun himself, so even though it combines so many different things, the world feels very complete and cohesive. There is also a lot of attention paid to the journey and sequence of events, it feels well paced and respectful of the user. The project is cute, filled with love, and technically accomplished, but I think it deserves to win because of how personal and specific it is. It isn’t made for a general audience: like a school play, it is probably only really interesting to the families of the children. But it points the way to a future where we can record our lives and our memories in a deeply personal space. Maybe one day, Takkun’s grandchildren will travel back in time and visit Takkun Museum, and add those memories to their own museums.

I thought Takkun Museum really stood out as an original concept. Although it was very personal, I really felt like it had a great structure as a gallery. The character design with the extruded children's drawings made a really cool world right at the start and the following gallery and window into the child's life was something that could be built upon as the child ages. I always felt that websites would become more like this where a user could view the life of their favorite celebrity in an intimate way and this feels like it has that sort of charm. The format is really cool and I feel like this piece winning the gold prize was well deserved.

This is a very Kawaii and lovely work, it has a particular charm to judges who are also dads, and it helps the work earned a high score. Moreover, I think it shows the possibility of applying VR to daily life and benefit mass people. This work can encourage us to know more about VR and make our own VR work, it has democratized this technology rather than restraining it to certain fields.

All the artists want to be children, yet as children our creations are usually discarded. I could fully understand the creator’s intention to capture that childlike imagination. It stretches without limit and is full of surreal explorations. More importantly it’s about resonance. We were all children once, the emotional appeal through the work really spoke to me. Though it might not have been the most refined or in some senses “most beautiful”, but it was definitely strongest in communicating emotions.

I felt the completeness as a format, and it was regarded as a package that could be used by everyone, so I felt that there was a uniquness compared to other works. I usually work on TV programs, from that point of view, I think it was interesting and well structured.

I like things that seem strange at first glance, so for this work, I started watching the VR version of a photo album that a common parent often made for children, but it contained various handicrafts and techniques that have been elaborated, and I was impressed with the view of the world that has been created in excess. It was also impressive that other judges were unanimously high scores. I think that it is a good example that you can experience to the end without having to get tired happily as a result of incorporating various technologies, sublimating personal thoughts into works, and thoroughly making them into works, not running only with technology.

An attempt to give a vivid texture to events that tend to be fixed by dropping the annual time axis of child growth into a single space, or expanding the normal two-dimensional world of albums into an interactive three-dimensional space I think that shows one possibility of VR. I think it ends the era that the transfer of memory was a medium of two-dimensional photography and two-dimensional + time animation, and the era of interactive recording and editing of spatiality, functionality, scale and texture is coming.

"Takkun Museum" is a work that has become a record of the growth of the children of the author himself. In the place, works such as paintings and crafts created by Takkun are arranged based on a unique world view. Not only that, but also how the room at home changes as the child grows is reproduced in a 3D space. It tries to capture casual daily changes that spill out from consciously recorded media such as photographs and videos. It seems that the growth of children is born from the accumulation of such slight changes and the interaction with the surrounding environment. I was moved by the attitude to carefully record the growth of a child who passed away in no time.