Description: This work is an official collaboration with the DeFi-staked crypto collectibles “Aavegotchi,” and was released as crypto art. The “aave” in Aavegotchi means “ghost” in Finnish, and it is a web3 game where you collect various NFTs themed around cute ghosts. The frog “ROFL” that appears in the game is said to be modeled after PEPE, the internet meme frog that also became one of the origins of crypto collectibles. In this work, “ROFL” is likened to the Taniguku of Japanese mythology, and together with the rhythm struck by the ghost “Gotchi,” it attempts to reinterpret life. The music in this work incorporates rhythms from within the Gotchiverse, and hidden figures emerge in the spectrogram.

When presenting design and illustration animation in motion, I focused on creating movements with a sense of depth and on structuring it so that it would make a strong, lasting impression even in a short runtime.

Sleeping is like dying. Through my grandmother’s death, I came to think that way. Memories, dreams, life, and death all blur together and become intertwined.