![]() I have always had an interest in fashion but never so big that it became an actual hobby or a job. What came first your interest in fashion or in animal crossing? These interactions of sharing designs became a big part of the community where a lot of people post in-game pictures on social media. A lot of people also ask designers to visit their island to display their designs. Most designers would share their work publicly for everyone to use and some answer to requests. Other than how it brings fellow designers together to share our experiences and design together, a lot of people also take interest in dressing themselves up with custom designs. Just like real-life designers, we can get inspiration from basically anything!Ī post shared by Sakao do the game’s fashion elements create community? I also joined a collaboration project where we made designs based on a Sanrio character to celebrate the Sanrio update. I make a lot of designs based on seasons and events such as Christmas and Halloween. I mostly get my inspiration from real-life designs, but many times the inspiration also comes from elements of nature, animals, characters, and seasons. Where do you draw inspiration from? Tell me about that process for you? It’s a real challenge to make colorful designs! To make a design realistic or detailed you need shade and highlight so we need a lot of colors. The most challenging thing about the design tool would be the limited color slots that you can use of 15 colors. So you have to try and see how each color works with another, it can be challenging but makes a seamless blending. Also unlike normal pixel art, the colors between pixels in the game tool can bleed into each other. Sometimes all we can do is try to make what it would look like from afar and sometimes we end up just putting dots to make illusions, or just simplify the design. The number of grids is not very large so it can be challenging to put in fine details. A custom design grid is 32×32 and a Balloon-hem dress is 32×42 (excluding the arms and the back) and a much bigger grid for a hat, for example. There are different sizes depending on the Silhouette. What are the limitations of the grid you use in the game to customization? How do you work around it? It’s very special because you can see how creative people can get with the limitations (in the game) and because of those limitations designs, in Animal Crossing, can be quite unique and certain designs would look better in-game than in real life. I also found love in designing clothes and other custom designs, it’s all I do in the game now. I have also met a close group of friends who have been a great support of what I do in Animal Crossing and life in general. As the game was built so that you play the game with others, we create communities that include people around the World. What does animal crossing/ digital fashion mean to you?Īnimal Crossing has become my virtual home, and now my atelier. That’s how I got introduced to Nintendo Switch, and then Animal Crossing. Then just before Covid and the first lockdown, wanting to exercise at home, I looked into Ring Fit Adventure. I haven’t played video games since I was very young and only play simple mobile games to pass time. I worked for my family business after graduating in real estate. Tell me about yourself, what you do, and how you got into video games? One of those creatives is Sakao or on Instagram, a 27-year-old from Thailand, who I had the pleasure of interviewing to explore the world of video game fashion. With the extensive customization features the game allowed, of course came inspiration and creatives of all kinds started creating one-of-a-kind fashion items for people to use in-game. With the start of the COVID-19 pandemic spreading in the states, it allowed for people to escape from real life and give themselves some well-needed self-care. You couldn’t log in to any social media site without seeing or hearing something about the gameplay whether it was creating friendships with the in-game characters or the ability to customize your own personal island. ![]() Nintendo released Animal Crossing: New Horizons in March of 2020 and it quickly took the world by storm. Now with the Metaverse pushing virtual fashion, we at DAMchic understand the importance of spotlighting creatives in the online video game space that have been expressing themselves through fashion decades before Facebook. As technology continues to advance we are seeing more and more of it overlapping in many, if not all industries.
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