Art Game- Katamari Damacy

About Katamari Damacy, I've never played this game before, but it seems a very welcome and hot game all over the world.

I've made a mind map and show what I'm thinking about this kind of art game.

First, I should say that, this game give me a "Bizarre" feeling, however, I think the feeling is mostly from the way of playing it. " like a dung beetle" to roll shit into a ball. It can almost run every real thing into a big ball. And that is the most bizarre things, as nobody can do that in real world.

From the art aspect, I think the bizarre is show on the role part, especially the apparel. I think the inspiration is from the people wearing the inflatable clothing on the street to sell something.

The roles in the game all have a very humor character and express it in ridiculous way.

we can see the whole game is under a bright colors and all roles have a very simple and striking shapes.

One article 10 Video Games As Modern Art gives me a clue of some ideas above. 

In the Modern artist to compare it to , the article gives me 2 Modern artists name.

1. Takashi Murakami

I think the color use is very impressing, as in such a complex painting, it do also has a main color, which makes the painting looks harmoniously. The above one is mainly in blue and the below one is mainly in orange.

It does has the conflict of the color as well as the shape. The single shape is simple, and when it get together, they also present a simple shape-Spherical.

In a painting with massive bright colors, it would be good to put some black and white. 

So from above 2 paintings ,we can see that, it just very simple shape: the sun flowers and skulls.

In the frist "Blue" piece the face color of the sun flower is changed between black and white as well as the skulls. The petals are in various bule colors which make the basic color is blue. It does with many colors, but those tiny bright color will not effect the whole painting but makes it more bright in some way.

In the second " Orange " piece, the face of the sunflowers are mostly yellow and occasionally with black color.  The petals are in various different color which makes the whole color mainly in warm color"orange"

And when it add the big flower spherical, the conflict is between the shapes, the irregular shapes with the regular shape. In that case, all the background seems like a big fantasy stage waiting for the super star. (ps: The main color of the super start is close to the background main color)

 Takashi Murakami is surely influenced by the Master-Henri Matisse

Another artist is a Michel De Broin, he is very good at gathering some ordinary things together and endows them a new meaning.

I personally like the above piece of work, because it's really beautiful in the nature just like a magic thing there. It show many aspects of the point of view and gives a new way to think about out true world.

Of course, the below work will be surly the inspiration of making the Katamari Game.

The above piece gives us an idea that if chairs can roll together like a ball, why can't we roll every thing? 

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Below is my practice: