Mach Kobayashi is an effects artist at a little computer animation house called Pixar. His newborn son, Dyson, just might end up in the games industry one day, thanks to the work of a family friend. Mach wrote in to share photos of Dyson's nursery, painted by professional set designer Asaki Oda to look like it's smack dab in the whimsical world of Sony's LocoRoco. Both Mach and his wife Tracy are big fans of the games, and we're just guessing little Dyson will be inclined to be one too, growing up looking at this amazing artwork.
The mural work was done while the couple was in India to get Dyson and must have made the return home that much more memorable. Soda has documented the process in an online photo album so the whole world can see how the room -- its walls overflowing with multicolored LocoRocos and their friends the Mui Mui -- took shape.
If you're reading this, Asaki, expect a call soon -- we all want our entire houses redone by you!
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Posted: Mar 25th 2010 3:17AM sonicspike41 said
That's really cool. I haven't played any LocoRoco games, but the art looks really stylized and just all around awesome, especially for a kid's room.
Seeing this I can't help but wonder how much more creative he might grow up to be compared to living in a room with just regular old white walls.
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Seeing this I can't help but wonder how much more creative he might grow up to be compared to living in a room with just regular old white walls.
Posted: Mar 25th 2010 3:29AM HydrophobicFish PSN ID Hydrophob said
My name is Arachnova, and I'll be your stick in the mud this evening.
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Posted: Mar 25th 2010 4:35AM sonicspike41 said
I'm just saying that a kid who is around colorful playful things is probably more likely to grow up creatively influenced than a kid who lives in a plain boring area. Of course most of this will factor into things like toys, what he sees on TV (if he sees TV at all), what books he reads, etc.
It just seems like giving a kid a bright and colorful place to live in would benefit him much more than giving him a dull white room devoid of personality (you know, until he grows up and gets stuff to hang on the walls).
It's not much different from letting employees decorate their office cubicle.
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It just seems like giving a kid a bright and colorful place to live in would benefit him much more than giving him a dull white room devoid of personality (you know, until he grows up and gets stuff to hang on the walls).
It's not much different from letting employees decorate their office cubicle.
Posted: Mar 25th 2010 10:38AM skipjimroo said
I'm loving this on so many levels, not the least of which being that it gives me affirmation; I'm not the only nutjob parent in this world.
I did the same thing for my daughter in the last house we lived in. As a baby she used to sit on my knee, completely entranced as I played Locoroco. She even learned a couple of the songs.
It was to her delight that I decorated her room in bright primary colours, Locoroco's of every shape, colour and size and flower shaped lighting just to set it all off.
It was a far cry from this in terms of quality and scale, but four years on she still remembers it fondly.
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I did the same thing for my daughter in the last house we lived in. As a baby she used to sit on my knee, completely entranced as I played Locoroco. She even learned a couple of the songs.
It was to her delight that I decorated her room in bright primary colours, Locoroco's of every shape, colour and size and flower shaped lighting just to set it all off.
It was a far cry from this in terms of quality and scale, but four years on she still remembers it fondly.
Posted: Mar 25th 2010 11:57AM mynameisjay said
Now I will have the LocoRoco theme song stuck in my head for the rest of the day.
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Posted: Mar 25th 2010 4:17PM (Unverified) said
That's an awfully odd interpretation.
They were away -- because they were adopting their child from India -- while it was done. There's no implication that it was a surprise, so that's your own inference. People in Marin County (my own inference) have alarm systems.
Further, Dad works for PIXAR, which is just about the coolest job a kid's Dad could have, short of being Ben and/or Jerry.
So, LocoRoco room + adoption + Pixar = cool as funk parents.
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They were away -- because they were adopting their child from India -- while it was done. There's no implication that it was a surprise, so that's your own inference. People in Marin County (my own inference) have alarm systems.
Further, Dad works for PIXAR, which is just about the coolest job a kid's Dad could have, short of being Ben and/or Jerry.
So, LocoRoco room + adoption + Pixar = cool as funk parents.
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